Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forrester eventually got on the pitch with about 5 minutes left , and indeed Fowler was attempting to put him through when the ball richoched back to him , hit him in the stomach and sat up in a ‘ kick me please ’ type fashion , which he did , and scored . |
| 2 | The scene was frantic : a sea of members but precious few stage-divers ( these guys like to keep their distance ) , simply ridiculous volume levels that make sure you only concentrated on the music , lovely melodies , and people getting away from the pressures of daily life in a northern town . |
| 3 | One of his favourite instances is the scene in On the Waterfront when Brando , thinking he was between takes , idly tried on the glove that Eva Marie Saint had dropped . |
| 4 | But she only came on the scene recently ; there were others . |
| 5 | He suddenly pounded on the back of the galley with his fist . |
| 6 | Jimmy Marks had become the Commander of No 35 Squadron and so arrived on the day that the Pathfinders were formed with his hind-picked aircrews from No 1 Group . |
| 7 | I have been here over a week now , and I miss you very much , and I miss the fresh air and the fresh faces of all those people I so hated on the Tube and the fresh things that happened every hour of every day if only I could have seen them — their freshness , I mean . |
| 8 | There were thousands of the creatures flying above them and ominously silhouetted on the witch trees at the edge of the plain . |
| 9 | Discussions at the meeting of the Council of Internal Market Ministers held on 18 June failed to result in any agreement on the long outstanding European Company Statute , first proposed in 1970 and long deadlocked on the issue of employee participation . |
| 10 | Yeah but you only knit on the welt , then you put the needles on it spare pin , on a pin |
| 11 | At first , she only worked on the household duties , especially the cooking . |
| 12 | James IV , idealistic and militaristic , ‘ first and foremost a warrior ’ as Dr Norman Macdougall has described him , spent at least £100,000 Scots ( rather more than three years ' income ) on artillery and even more on his navy ; £30,000 alone went on the building of the huge and spectacular Great Michael , a ship so impressive that it was promptly copied by Henry VIII , whose Henri Grace a Dieu was built virtually to the same specifications in 1512 , a year after the Michael 's completion . |
| 13 | One local authority in tackling the problem of odour nuisance from maggot farms in their area not only insisted on the installation of catalytic incineration equipment but on disposal of the sawdust waste , which still contained some maggots after sieving , by bagging and subsequent incineration in the municipal incinerator , instead of burying the waste as had been done previously . |
| 14 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 15 | That we only lay on the ground and kissed . |
| 16 | She had begun to climb the bank when the four-wheel drive suddenly appeared on the rim above , bumped down and drew to a halt alongside . |
| 17 | Even when lightning lit the skies and the floodgates opened when she was still twenty miles from her destination she merely flicked on the car 's wipers and peered out into the black night , letting the piercing beam of the headlights guide her along the road . |
| 18 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |
| 19 | ‘ We only stayed on the beach for a couple of hours or so , and there was a breeze . ’ |
| 20 | IT MAY SEEM paradoxical to describe Mrs Curdle 's gipsy caravan first , for it only stood on the green for a day or two at the end of April and beginning of May each year . |
| 21 | Rainey believes he could n't make a corner at GP speed if he merely sat on the bike without pushing down — hard . |
| 22 | I just got on the ferry . |
| 23 | He just got on the horse and launched off into space , landed in the lake and he 's swimming it out . ’ |
| 24 | Terrie put the helm hard over while I alternately concentrated on the reef , closing rapidly on both sides , and took bearings on the tree to ensure that we made whatever course corrections were necessary to counteract the current that runs northward up this coastline at up to three knots . |
| 25 | He painfully scrawled on the piece of paper which had been left for him : HOW IS YOUR MOTHER ? |
| 26 | On Monday she finally knelt on the ground where he was killed and placed a wreath to his memory . |
| 27 | ‘ I just concentrated on the job in hand and felt better than I have done for months . |
| 28 | Cos I just landed on the bottom . |
| 29 | ‘ They just knocked on the door and asked Cosmas could they light a slow fuse under the bed ? ’ |
| 30 | And he just knocked on the door and you just came and you read the card and that was it . |