Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Whigs repealed the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts after the Han-overian Succession , they took their time in doing so , and the party became bitterly divided on the issue . |
| 2 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |
| 3 | García went underground and issued calls for national resistance , but this found little echo on the streets , and subsequent opinion polls suggested that Fujimori retained the overwhelming confidence of the public . |
| 4 | Staring at him worriedly , she slowly sank down to sit on the edge of the bed . |
| 5 | The particular phoneme used generally depends on the surrounding sounds or the position of the sound in a word . |
| 6 | The fellow shrugged and Athelstan tried not to concentrate on the great yellowing ulcer on the right side of his face , the pus now suppurating , bubbling out , staining his -cheek . |
| 7 | The rumours also came on a day when B&C reshuffled top management , with chief executive Peter Goldie moved sideways to concentrate on the disposal programme . |
| 8 | The opposite extreme is represented by the Russian saxophonist , Vladimir Chekasin , sometime member of the Ganelin Trio , caught here live on the Munster Jazz Festival . |
| 9 | The sections stained with haematoxylin and eosin and those stained for gastrin had the point at which the parietal cells stopped distally and the point at which the G cells stopped proximally marked on the surface of the slides . |
| 10 | The graph-based analysis proposed here focuses on the dynamic aspects of this task . |
| 11 | Describing the DC as " a rotten apple with a healthy core " , he proposed chiefly to build on the existing cross-party support for his proposals to reform electoral law by referendum . |
| 12 | When Jos moved round to work on the other side of the gate , he handed Mungo a sheet of sandpaper , telling him to use plenty of ‘ elbow grease ’ . |
| 13 | He had offered the car to Hubert for the summer on condition that everyone promised never to stand on the running boards , because they were threatening to fall off . |
| 14 | I saw the doctor who said I 'd better go on the hospital wing , which seemed ludicrous simply because I needed to use eye drops and an asthma inhalant and asthma pills . |
| 15 | You 'd better sleep on the problem . |
| 16 | We 'd better get on the objective double quick then , before he gets back . |
| 17 | All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred . |
| 18 | Particularly considering the late night we 'd all had on the Saturday . ’ |
| 19 | Rob came over to perch on the corner of her desk . |
| 20 | Rob 's party , and Richard Stirling 's mention of Elise … and Luke 's terse reply which effectively forbade further talk on the subject . |
| 21 | Something to do with Company cash-flow , stuff they 'd hardly touched on the course . |
| 22 | Sergeant Newton Barrios had investigated more than seven hundred traffic fatalities in the city of New Orleans , but this was the worst he 'd ever seen on the St Claude Avenue Bridge . |
| 23 | She made me coffee , gave me hugs , and at one point I fell asleep , and was at peace for a while , and woke up sprawled on the floor , my head on her lap , one gentle hand stroking my head . |
| 24 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 25 | Fortunately , in the last week John Major came out fighting on the past reforms and his vision of a free , low tax , property-owning Britain . |
| 26 | Well you would be would n't you if you 'd nowhere to sleep on the night ? |
| 27 | When the gunmen climbed in to sit on the benches at the side they had to put their booted feet on the prisoners . |
| 28 | The voltage measured still depends on the path . |
| 29 | But as the sepoy lunged forward to put an end to the struggle he stumbled , blinded by the dust and plaster from the ceiling , and fetched up choking on the floor beside Fleury . |
| 30 | God damn Humber , I thought , and got up to write on the charts on the bed-table . |