Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got my schooling on the hoof . ’ |
| 2 | You say you met my daughter on the train to Boston , that she was running away from home , that she ended up on your doorstep when her brother refused to house her ? ’ |
| 3 | That morning I met my father on the middle landing of the stairs , and we were alone together for the first time in the holidays . |
| 4 | He went up and clapped my master on the shoulder . |
| 5 | Having doubts about this picture 's authenticity and surmising that it might be the same picture he had seen several years before , he again sought my opinion on the basis of a good photograph . |
| 6 | The Boyfriends haunted my stay on the North Shore . |
| 7 | I fixed my attention on the tower of the library which the priest , Sauniere , had built on the edge of a precipice overlooking the distant village of Esperaza . |
| 8 | I practiced my trade , I simplified my life , I was on my way to becoming the " Compleat Airman " , I also felt that I should get an overseas tour out of the way , and was quite pleased when I found my name on the PWR+ ; I then awaited eagerly to learn where . |
| 9 | I bumped my head on the door moving your mattress through the laundry , ’ said Tom . |
| 10 | The Iranian government maintained its neutrality on the Gulf crisis [ see p. 37696 ] , reacting cautiously to news of the allied attack on Iraq on Jan. 16 . |
| 11 | The Inspectorate maintained their attack on the ‘ unacceptable variety ’ of curricular provision in their Aspects of Secondary Education ( 1979 ) and again in A View of the Curriculum ( 1980 ) . |
| 12 | Eleanor Thorne jerked her head on the pillow and opened her eyes , awakening in time to hear the echo of her own voice . |
| 13 | Wincing at the stiffness in her fingers , she loosened her grip on the steering-wheel and was amazed at how much more responsive the boat felt . |
| 14 | After two months she loosened her grasp on the subject like a drowning man giving himself up to the sea . |
| 15 | She promised her support on the condition that Mays and Berthon were sidelined and Rudd was given his chance . |
| 16 | Eleanor Thorne moved her head on the pillow . |
| 17 | The latter case found its way on the front page of the Sunday People under the headline BEAUTY QUEEN 'S LIFE OF CRIME Terrorised wife 's story . |
| 18 | Lindsey concentrated her gaze on the monitor screen she had flicked into life . |
| 19 | Ada Neumann shook her head in resignation and once again concentrated her attention on the speaker . |
| 20 | Quickly , Caroline scrawled her signature on the proffered form . |
| 21 | On one embarrassing occasion Queen Mary caught her earring on the beard of the plumber who was showing her that the lavatory cistern really worked . |
| 22 | She caught her head on the corner of the hearth . |
| 23 | ‘ Either at the request of some lady because it disturbed their bouncing on the royal bed . |
| 24 | She found her eyepatch on the ground , and slipped it on over her optic . |
| 25 | It was in the thirties , with the expansion of the commercial library ( Boots lending library , for example ) that Mills and Boon concentrated their attention on the production of romance fiction , published in cheap brown bindings . |
| 26 | Oil consumers , whether directly or indirectly concerned , concentrated their attention on the Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf , through which flowed some 20 per cent of the oil supplies of the world outside the CPEs and which shifted into sharp focus as the war intensified . |
| 27 | Usually they concentrated their attention on the roof . |
| 28 | Realizing there was nowhere to run in time , the Marines concentrated their fire on the crouching figures behind the guns , but they were too well protected . |
| 29 | However , several respondents mentioned their dependence on the ritual aspect of their heroin use . |
| 30 | She tried to get up on all fours , and bumped her head on the underside of the bed . |