Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press , again amazingly , failed to jump on this fact but this was the beginning of the Morrissey press explosion . |
| 2 | Suffice to say that the young medic concerned must have wished he 'd picked on any person in the history of Equity rather than your hyper-ventilating authoress . |
| 3 | It was only later when I came to reflect on this incident , that I recalled the man 's appearance . |
| 4 | With the glasses he seemed to put on another nature — his stern , cool attitude she had first noted , and felt unthreatened by . |
| 5 | But he seemed disposed on this occasion to discuss St Stephen 's , because its problems had lately been much on his mind . |
| 6 | Perhaps appropriately , given the inflammatory nature of the effect Gav and Janice seemed to have on each other 's glands , it was called Red Heat . |
| 7 | He wished he 'd thought to put shoes on before he 'd started on this piece of nonsense ; feet felt like blocks of ice . |
| 8 | The amount paid depended on each employee 's grade . |
| 9 | On the night , the young soprano was so nervous that he made a fatal mistake : he forgot to put on any underwear . |
| 10 | The lower-ranking mandarins who agreed to work as interpreters were rewarded with big tracts of good rice-growing land in the Mekong delta , and the idea soon began to catch on that collaborating paid . |
| 11 | As I began to reflect on this verse , I let its truth penetrate deep within me . |
| 12 | I vaguely began to meditate on some design . |
| 13 | Existing Golf diesels are sold out , and the first 1992 models with the new larger body in right-hand-drive form began arriving on this side of the Channel last month . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal declined to adjudicate on this matter , holding that the views expressed by the judge as to the nature of the court 's jurisdiction were both obiter and academic . |
| 15 | Since I started to work on this chapter somewhere back in early 1989 a lot has happened . |
| 16 | She soon started appearing on such television classics as Doctor Who and Dixon of Dock Green . |
| 17 | Because the definition of ‘ informal carer ’ can be so vague , we decided to focus on each person 's principal carer ( if there was one ) , defined on the objective criterion that he or she spent a minimum of seven hours per week ( on average one hour per day ) doing things with or on behalf of the dementia sufferer , rather than rely on the more subjective criterion of who appears to be most responsible for the sufferer . |
| 18 | I started to meditate on that verse in relation to my argument with my colleague . |
| 19 | ‘ Palmer & Pearson ? ’ she queried , and discounted that at once because until things started moving on that contract there were no problems . |
| 20 | Murphy knew when he was beaten and decided to retreat on this occasion . |
| 21 | The strong Ferrari team decided to run the entire race non-stop without pit stops for refuelling or tyre changes , while Maserati , and Fangio , decided to run on half fuel , and then refill . |
| 22 | A welcome was given to Beryl Smith who kindly agreed to teach on this day because of the shortage of other trainers . |
| 23 | He then proceeded to elaborate on that point . |
| 24 | he 's , it was n't a minute struggle , you , you kept harping on all week he 's in , in the |
| 25 | Hedgerows grew straggling on either side , bare now in mid-winter , black , grey and brown instead of green . |
| 26 | The helping hand for foreign travellers , a hallmark of Omani hospitality , proved misplaced on that occasion since the Portuguese — having mapped the routes to the lands of silk and spices — simply destroyed the Omani merchant fleets to prevent competition , while they occupied key ports to ensure that no other foreign vessels could pass by . |
| 27 | I did touch on this problem a good many years ago in an essay I wrote on the death of a great music-hall artist , Marie Lloyd . |
| 28 | Attlee could and did capitalize on another legacy bequeathed by the war years . |
| 29 | Yeah but you did say on that base oh well you pay tax but obviously you must do as well then |
| 30 | Who could fail to be stirred by the thought of such purpose , reaching back over generations to the men who had gathered on this spot two centuries before ? |