Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does involve a lot of money laid out on different colours and a lot of time to build up a collection . |
| 2 | Aide got off on wrong foot |
| 3 | We do most humbly refer our cause and ourselves to the Goodness of your Honor and the Company beseeching you to consider favourably of our unfeigned hindrance beside the great loss of our own stock laid down on these mines . |
| 4 | A large black dog in the middle of the waste-ground dined out on discarded chips . |
| 5 | Hence , when the news of ILG 's collapse came through on 8 March last year , Airtours simply had to send its negotiators back to buy up Intasun 's beds . |
| 6 | The community care Support Force swung in on hard-pressed SSDs with as much subtlety as a ton of bricks . |
| 7 | Both arches are designed for use with three-way posts , so they can stand alone , or have Babylon screening extended out on either side . |
| 8 | The barrister for the defendant picked up on this . |
| 9 | Every day the Prince and Princess went off on official business , to look at churches , visit hospitals and meet people , and the minute they were back on board the royal yacht , Charles would quickly change into some comfortable clothes and sit on deck with his sketchbook and teacher , until the very last minute before the bell for dinner . |
| 10 | At the foot of the bed , a window looked out on dip-backed slate roofs . |
| 11 | Her boy went out on this work experience thing for his school like . |
| 12 | I think it reflects all the hard work put in on convincing people of our case . ’ |
| 13 | Like sod sliced by the share , or sea by the bowsprit , butchered meat in its clothing reeled back on this side and that , and as men fell behind him , they were replaced in the svinfylkja by others . |
| 14 | In 1936 Trinity gave him a scholarship and he planned to study the Elizabethans , but when the Spanish civil war broke out on 18 July 1936 , on a sudden impulse and without even saying goodbye to his family he left for Dieppe . |
| 15 | War broke out on 3 September 1939 and had a very speedy and profound effect on London 's tramways . |
| 16 | The group missed out on two magazine front cover appearances because they refused to oblige photographers . |
| 17 | So Ariel kept vigil as the night came down on that day nearly four hundred years ago , when everything changed for them . |
| 18 | More than three-quarters of those on the electoral register turned out on each occasion to cast their vote and , of those who did so , more than 90% voted usually for either the Conservative or Labour candidate . |
| 19 | East Germany 's slender claim to legitimacy rests above all on the fraudulent implication that it is the good non-Nazi , never-Nazi Germany , any Nazi-supporters having joined the four million renegades whose Westward migration almost drained East Germany dry before the Wall went up on 13 August 1961 . |
| 20 | The day ran by on swift feet and all too soon it was five o'clock . |
| 21 | With Italian and German bombers providing air cover , the convoy set out on 5 August , carrying some 3,000 men . |
| 22 | but even more content to have me hoe the weeds and ungum the filters for her while she sat half-naked on an ancient natural tube steel chair tipped back on two legs against the natural pulpboard side of her natural module A farmhouse , playing her warped old guitar . |
| 23 | In the summer of 1961 the Board of Trade clamped down on imported tomatoes early in the season . |
| 24 | The creature ran off on all fours . |
| 25 | She 'd cast aside her cloak and even her veil so her jet-black hair fell down on either side of a face now glowing with happiness . |
| 26 | Since the word got out on Prehistoric I 've seen a whole bunch of scripts . |
| 27 | Word got out on that , and they were prevented from getting onto the market . |
| 28 | Theatre Hung up on toxic shocks Jean Cocteau meets Miles Davis in Robert Lepage 's solo show . |
| 29 | Brad Pitt stars as Johnny , a hipster idiot hung up on Fifties Kitsch who wanders incongruently through a contemporary bombscape filled with symbolic rubble and fetishised meaninglessness . |
| 30 | If a government went back on this assurance there would be no IAEA safeguards which could do anything about the position . |