Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they got out they were taken inside a building and made to sit on a stone floor that was gritty and unswept . |
| 2 | Former Queensland Premier and National Party leader Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen walked free from the Brisbane District Court on Oct. 19 after a jury failed to agree on a verdict in his trial for perjury . |
| 3 | They failed to agree on a design , but the ‘ modern ’ image of electric cooking , particularly among young housewives , led to a gradual expansion of cooker sales . |
| 4 | It follows an incident in which a horse became trapped on a gate . |
| 5 | There are frequent occasions in a drama session when children are divided into groups and asked to work on a task . |
| 6 | Whistling to himself , Henry laid the table , while , in the corner of the kitchen , Maisie finished her last chocolate bar and got to work on a packet of crisps , a tube of Rollos , half a pound of jellybabies and a jumbo bar of Turkish delight . |
| 7 | Robert tried to concentrate on a spot just above the doctor 's head . |
| 8 | The second interview ended abruptly when the convalescent tried to embark on a discussion of the merits of his water-colours . |
| 9 | The DIM system demonstrated run on a Sparc and consists of Xerox 's ScanWorX OCR software , Fujitsu 's M3096G scanner , Frame 's publishing software , Excalibur 's document imaging software and Laser Magnetics 's optical storage . |
| 10 | Virtually what it did it came out of the last parish council 's conference which I attended on your behalf and er the Director of Planning and Development , Colin promised to lay on a seminar for parish councillors because it seems to be the one service which always gets criticism at the parish council 's conference . |
| 11 | The house we found stood on a hill amidst fine old elm trees , looking south over the Tyne Valley and River South Tyne , midway between the villages of Bardon Mill and Haltwhistle . |
| 12 | He 'd faced foxes , he 'd helped to drive the Truck , he 'd flown on a goose — but none of them was half so bad as letting a human being actually touch him . |
| 13 | Nicholas dropped to sit on a block , and picked up a stone , and took out the knife he had been given back . |
| 14 | Her bottom stung as if she 'd sat on a nest of hornets , but she wanted to show them she 'd survived . |
| 15 | A Christmas stocking — no , a pair of red tights , actually — filled up to here with pound notes that we 'd won on a strawberry roan named Cordelia . |
| 16 | Removing a pair of surgical gloves , he dropped them inside the open bag he 'd perched on a chair , closed the bag . |
| 17 | In his eyes it came to rank on a par with his Education White Paper of 1943 . |
| 18 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 19 | Not so long since I was in here myself , but I never dreamed Willis had not quite known what to bring , so he 'd decided on a packet of Whiffs . |
| 20 | My back , my great white back was scored with thirty or forty sharp red welts , regularly patterned , as if I 'd slept on a bed of nails . |
| 21 | It came to focus on a headhunting approach to find this talent , not necessarily people who had gone to the right schools and universities . |
| 22 | And she , she wait , she made out she 'd driven on a road |
| 23 | He was deep in an armchair , naked from the shower , heels lofted to rest on a mahogany writing desk . |
| 24 | The sheriff ran his eye over the pile of guns , ammunition pouches and knives , till it came to rest on a radio transmitter . |
| 25 | The Israeli flicked through the pages of photographs , sepia prints of Arab peasants and donkey-drawn carts clattering through the streets of a forgotten Palestine , until his thumb came to rest on a picture of workers inside a cavernous hall . |
| 26 | The meticulously clear and polished nail came to rest on a line near the end of the story . |
| 27 | All she knew was that she came to lie on a garden bench and it was dark and the stars overhead were piercingly bright . |
| 28 | I mean luckily you , you know , you 'd gone on a car , with a car so it 's a matter of throwing everything in the back and just going |
| 29 | ‘ If you 'd appeared on a day when I was n't jet-lagged and exasperated by travel delays , I might have reacted less belligerently to your unannounced arrival . |
| 30 | A woman has saved a baby 's life using resuscitation techniques she 'd learned on a course just two weeks earlier . |