Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an accepted tariff of damages for personal injuries laid down on a case-to-case basis by judges . |
| 2 | Then the heavy cloud began to break up and the pearly rays of the morning sun beamed down on a spume-streaked sea that glistened in shades of emerald and jade . |
| 3 | ‘ I always felt as if you rode in on a white charger and saved me from my loneliness . |
| 4 | AFTER the opening shot of a cartoon rainbow descending over a stately home , the camera panned in on a well-groomed man with a moustache . |
| 5 | The crowds who gathered on Alexanderplatz and then moved off on a winding trail through East Berlin were in any case convinced he was their man . |
| 6 | An external 2-pole 5-way switch will then be needed and the circuit shown in Fig. 13 built up on a small board . |
| 7 | The machine bumped up on a stony track that led in the general direction of the distant barn . |
| 8 | Klondyke Trading Co are responsible for providing a variety of straps for both the home market and the world , but as I found out on a recent visit there 's more to making one guitar strap than meets the eye , let alone producing thousands . |
| 9 | The tent is extremely stable especially in very high winds as I found out on a few wet and wild nights . |
| 10 | The technical process by which items are selected and tried out on a large group of children is referred to as the process of standardisation and the group of children is referred to as the standardisation sample . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps someone got through on a short-wave transmitter ? ’ |
| 12 | The hammer finally slammed down on an empty chamber . |
| 13 | In the late afternoon , slow to go home , he dropped in on an elderly doctor friend and played tennis . |
| 14 | Two czarist officers , bulky in their comic-opera uniforms , solemnly played Russian roulette , each downing a drink every time the firing pin of their revolver came down on an empty chamber . |
| 15 | I thought you said there 'd be no problem if I came in on a six-month permit ? ’ |
| 16 | A fourth squeaked through on a single disputed vote . |
| 17 | Sal sent the sack up on a bight of slack , then came up on a tight rope and the sling . |
| 18 | There consul in Rome came up on an official visit and there was nearly a diplomatic incident when he got thrown out of the new university canteen he come to expect . |
| 19 | Upon reaching retirement age Len found that he missed the job so much he came back on a part-time basis . |
| 20 | When the Friar left the children beneath the tree he went hurriedly but surprisingly lightly for a man of his bulk through the bushes until he came out on a narrow path that twisted this way and that into a deep ravine both sides of which were dark with yews . |
| 21 | MH : Yes , we came out on a real high . |
| 22 | The words came out on a shaky laugh . |
| 23 | Suddenly the ground fell away before them and they came out on an open plateau with a floor of chequered marble , white on black , and a wide stone staircase with balustrades running down to the dried bed of an ornamental lake , which the mist turned to a bowl of milk . |
| 24 | An article in the February/March 1992 issue describes the technique of ‘ breadboarding ’ where all components are assembled and screwed down on a thick board and straight lines around the board . |
| 25 | A flying wheel knocked the crucifix over , and chunks of wreckage rained down on a fifty-foot circle . |
| 26 | With an intensity comparable to the devastating bombardment of February 21st , the heavy German shells rained down on a French division of mediocre calibre , the 67th , whose experience of this kind of thing had so far been limited to second-hand accounts from across the river . |
| 27 | PUPILS , parents and friends of Ellesmere Port Catholic High School turned out on a stormy evening , to make a recording for BBC Radio Merseyside 's regular Sunday morning programme , United in Song . |
| 28 | She was feeling pleased with her progress when she walked in on a typical scene on the terrace of room 216 . |
| 29 | LIFE magazine followed up on an odd ad in a North Dakota newspaper from a woman offering to swap her engagement ring , wedding dress and veil for a Harley-Davidson motorbike . |
| 30 | He had flown over the sea for a short time — the western sea , the wrong sea — then swung back on a reciprocal . |