Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The semantic net has been studied and modified based on principles of analogical inheritance . |
| 2 | Heat treatment , self-help on the patient 's part , and rehabilitation of the affected muscles by massage and exercise were the tenets of her faith — and I had to admit that a great deal of what she practised depended on scorn for the accepted methods of treatment with splints , braces , and corsets which only assisted the patients in coping with unhealed limbs , not in any actual sense curing them . |
| 3 | When Pat told me that he 'd been pleased with what I 'd said on Day to Day I felt better ; I could n't have coped with his disapproval as well . |
| 4 | The results of one of her routine antenatal tests she 'd had on arrival in France showed she had raised levels of antibodies in her blood . |
| 5 | The can of soup that he 'd left on top of the flame was starting to bubble when he got back . |
| 6 | In the other he clutched a fifty-p piece , a coin he 'd discovered the evening before in Mrs Abigail 's purse , which carelessly she 'd left on top of the refrigerator . |
| 7 | When Tormey cites the art of acting as an example of representational behaviour , he was really talking about the style of acting first attributed to the famous English eighteenth-century actor David Garrick , acting which demanded not the expression of emotion but an accomplished technique by which ‘ natural ’ expressions of real life became distilled on stage by artifice . |
| 8 | In this case , at least , there was no need to assume that the transfer obtained depended on changes in the distinctiveness of the cues . |
| 9 | A few dealers accepted the fines as a matter of course , especially as accumulated funds got spent on drinks for everybody in the local pub on Friday night . |
| 10 | Alan Rothwell , who played another post office clerk in the film and soon afterwards became known on TV as David Barlow in Coronation Street , remembered Crawford as ‘ a good mate and good fun ’ , adding , ‘ We were both on a sort of level at the time . |
| 11 | Lots of girls got put on report for wearing each other 's clothes — usually for visits , when they 'd want to borrow something that looked good . |
| 12 | I remember when I 'd been there only two weeks I almost got put on report for smoking in the avenue . |
| 13 | I done that twice , and got put on report for it . |
| 14 | Pam became hooked on Medau after joining Molly Braithwaite 's London Polytechnic class early in the 1960s while living in Wimbledon ; she moved to Essex in 1975 and was overjoyed to find that Medau flourished there too . |
| 15 | Read out aloud , it seemed to bear out word for word what Alfred Wells had recalled on oath in court . |
| 16 | There were other , smaller tasks which he wished to complete : when he had finished the play , he planned to revise for publication the lectures which he had given on education at the University of Chicago . |
| 17 | She said that the baby had suffered a fit , and she had fallen on top of him . |
| 18 | ‘ Valerie , ’ the editor of the Mail on Sunday said to me once , after I had filed a neat and convincing piece on an earthquake the ground had trembled beneath me in Rome , where Lou was playing with the London Symphonic and a wall had fallen on top of me and trapped me for two hours — ‘ you are the mistress of controlled reportage . |
| 19 | Marshall suggested that a quarter of all the acid rain which had fallen on Norway in the previous century had come from Britain . |
| 20 | She and her husband , Jan , were on the next farm to Bruce , and they had looked on Bruce as a son . |
| 21 | Two men talked their way into the home of two elderly sisters , pretending that they had come on behalf of neighbours to cut down trees in the garden . |
| 22 | A previous lodger had departed on receipt of a message that the rozzers were after him on account of a jeweller 's broken window . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I told them that , ’ Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other 's eye in silent agreement that he had n't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out , reception at the House of Commons , replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself . |
| 24 | If the British people had voted on Thursday for a Labour government , they would have run counter to the swing away from socialist prescriptions across the whole of the rest of Europe ; more , they would have signalled the rejection of everything that has been so painfully achieved since 1979 in making Britain a competitive modern society founded upon the doctrine of personal responsibility and enterprise . |
| 25 | He issued the text of his decree calling for a nationwide vote of confidence , and it omitted any reference to the special powers he had claimed on Saturday during a televised address . |
| 26 | Earlier that evening we were visited by Brigadier Mills Roberts , accompanied by several senior Officers , whom I had seen on occasion at Petworth in Sussex ( Commando Group Headquarters ) . |
| 27 | Emily 's mind was partly on the enjoyable walk she had taken with Heinrich , who had unexpectedly proved a most delightful companion during the week ; partly on the bright green foulard dress she had seen on sale at Bobby 's in Margate yesterday when they visited the famous menagerie at the Grand Hall by the Sea , and partly it was on the coming evening . |
| 28 | It was strange to Fenella to know that presently the night would begin to die and that the pale grey and pink streaks of the new day would start to lighten the sky as it had done on Renascia before the Star Maps changed and the Dark Lodestar had sent out its hungry beckoning . |
| 29 | Ashrawi had said on Jordan on Nov. 9 that she and her fellow delegates had been given diplomatic protection by the USA and the Soviet Union . |
| 30 | Her parents only came to appreciate the impact the plaintiff had made on others before her accident from the tributes that were paid to her by outsiders of the family during the months the plaintiff was in a coma at Addenbrookes . |