Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 171 full members and 107 alternate members ( with 300 other sundry officials looking on ) met to agree on the new ‘ proposals for the ten-year programme ( 1991–2000 ) and eighth five-year plan ( 1991–95 ) ’ . |
| 2 | It was a dramatic and impractical outfit of a kind I only expected to see on the male models who posed in the more outlandish fashion magazines that our rich clients brought aboard Wavebreaker , yet Jesse Isambard Sweetman managed to wear the elaborate style with an elegant insouciance . |
| 3 | They agreed to concentrate on the under-age international sides and to the inauguration of a development squad . |
| 4 | So the GEC approach was blocked while BOC 's lawyers got to work on the proposed take-over . |
| 5 | Thus , for example , the student with difficulty revising , having drawn up his plan of action , agreed to work on the first item on his list and not to be side-tracked into attempting other items at the same time . |
| 6 | She pushed her inner chaos to the back of her mind and tried to concentrate on the coming day . |
| 7 | He squirmed uncomfortably on the damp stone , and tried to look on the bright side . |
| 8 | Finally , the graph search perspective helped to focus on the dynamic aspects of speech processing . |
| 9 | Devise a marking code so that dog-whelks found feeding on the different prey species can be so distinguished . |
| 10 | ‘ Some of the language that he used bordered on the unforgivable . |
| 11 | We both had large appetites and although we tried to get on the same table at mealtimes so that we could monopolise the food , we were permanently hungry . |
| 12 | The chief executive of Medway Ports , Peter Vincent , said yesterday the area involved centred on the open sea wall used by Royal Fleet Auxiliary tankers , and not the adjacent nuclear submarine refitting facility . |
| 13 | Only the previous day Louisa had been pondering a passage from the Aurelia occulta in which Mercurius promised to bestow on the adept the powers of male and female , of heaven and earth . |
| 14 | She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head . |
| 15 | ‘ But we seemed to concentrate on the economic effects of the Industrial Revolution , and stuff like that . |
| 16 | At first you seemed to concentrate on the later works , the Fourth Symphony onwards . |
| 17 | And I did n't tell him that he came banging on the bloody door and all that . |
| 18 | of anything he 'd met on the seven seas . |
| 19 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 20 | It was the decision she 'd made on the silent journey back to the hotel , and one she intended to keep . |
| 21 | She rang the number she 'd seen on the underground and went to the address they told her . |
| 22 | And on a er visit to a museum a few weeks later he also discovered flying boots of exact prints he 'd seen on the wet floor . |
| 23 | Instead of returning to the dressing-room to change as she normally did , she made her way through the backstage area back into the club , determined that he should n't simply disappear without trace as he 'd done on the previous evenings . |
| 24 | The same inactivity seemed to apply on the wider front , with the two armies static , no assault on the fords , where opposing guardians stared at each other across two hundred yards of water . |
| 25 | He 'd rapped on the open door as he 'd passed it , and said , ‘ Who called for International Rescue ? ’ |
| 26 | His eyes came to rest on the tear-stained face of Mrs Bennett , whose baby had so recently died , and he suffered a pang of pity for her . |
| 27 | Their voices faded into the background as Isabel 's eyes came to rest on the third horse . |
| 28 | A hoarse , muffled groan broke from his throat , his powerful body shuddering as her fingers came to rest on the hard , swollen thrust of his pulsing flesh . |
| 29 | Charlie ignored me , as he was ignoring most of his friends since he 'd appeared on the front page of the Bromley and Kentish Times with his band , Must n't Grumble , after an open-air gig in a local sports ground . |
| 30 | He had to leave after the first rehearsals when the only line he could remember was the one he 'd tried on the leading lady the night before . |