Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor , 31 , of 1 Sqn A Flight , RAF Laarbruch , Germany , admitted carelessly driving on September 26 , last year , and colliding with a lorry driven by Alex Baillie of Golf Drive , Port Seton , East Lothian . |
| 2 | This involved mainly work on UN documents relating to UN peace-keeping activities ; debates in the General Assembly and the Security Council ; meetings and reports of the Human Rights Commission and the Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and the protection of minorities ; and the work of specialised agencies such as UNESCO and the UNDP . |
| 3 | Now I think we 'd better finish on time so you can go and stand in the , the wet and breathe in get some fresh air into your lungs and get all psyched up ready for your grading . |
| 4 | In fact she was such a quiet baby that sometimes when her father came home drunk on Friday nights he would fondly imagine she had joined her blessed mother in heaven . |
| 5 | After a half-hour programme with Bristol tennis girl Jo Durie , once in the top half dozen in the international ratings , she said it was by far the toughest thing she 'd ever done on television . |
| 6 | That night in bed , not able to sleep , she remembered she 'd once knocked on Miss Malabedeely 's door and when Miss Malabedeely had n't answered she 'd just gone in . |
| 7 | Jack Charlton , the Republic of Ireland manager , did not attend Saturday 's draw in Rome but seemed more upset on TV back home than did Bobby Robson , who made all the right diplomatic noises in the Palazzo dello Sport without giving much away . |
| 8 | The carrier sailed again to schedule on May 1 , 1942 — a really magnificent performance . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't worry , Cawthorne deserves everything that 's coming to him , ’ said McInnes in a tone I bet he 'd never used on Sorrel . |
| 10 | By the way I just wanted to say I went out and got totally plastered on Saturday night , came home and watched those goals from Match Of The Day about six times . |
| 11 | Many of the people I met also rely on loan companies and clubs who scour the poorest housing estates to find their neediest clients . |
| 12 | I returned home floating on air and went on preaching . |
| 13 | The recall part of the experiment started approximately 50 minutes after the first and 10 minutes after the last of the junctions had been driven through ( the exact times varied considerably depending on driving style and traffic conditions ) . |
| 14 | Although Elton Mayo is considered to be the pioneer of the human relations movement , Lewin was another important theorist who did much research on group dynamics and leadership styles . |
| 15 | Hermite had presumably gambled on Smith 's being the only entry for the competition , but there were in fact two others . |
| 16 | He hoped eventually to concentrate on diseases of the mind so he was constantly analysing people 's actions . |
| 17 | In 1348 the king restored the Earl of Lancaster 's title to the Honour and castle of Pontefract , which he had hitherto held on lease from the queen , ‘ having regard to the good service and great honour which our … cousin has done us in Gascony ’ . |
| 18 | It had all gone on Papa 's account , as Paul had brought the fact to her notice that she had never been paid a penny for all her years of work . |
| 19 | It was a world beyond my wildest dreams ; one I had only seen on celluloid in the cinema at Fontanellato . |
| 20 | What had happened was that Birkenhead , Austen Chamberlain , Worthington Evans , Derby and Joynson Hicks had , together or separately ( and , according to Bridgeman , backed by Beaverbrook and Rothermere ) succeeded in persuading Balfour that Baldwin intended to resign ; that he should , if asked by the King , advise him to choose not MacDonald nor Asquith , but another Conservative- Derby or Austen Chamberlain , because he held Baldwin personally to blame rather than his party ; further , they had so worked on Stamfordham , that if Baldwin had gone to resign at once , the advice tendered to the King by his private secretary would have been the same . |
| 21 | While I am about it , I had better apologise on behalf of a contributor , who was castigated by post for not looking up the meaning of a phrase that was , to him , mysterious . |
| 22 | No-one suggested weaving a circle round the headmaster thrice , in view of the fact that he had obviously fed on honeydew and drunk the milk of paradise . |
| 23 | The big man had obviously come on deck to warn me what to expect from the twins , and for that I was grateful . |
| 24 | AFTER a slow , grudging and hesitant start , spring had suddenly sprung on March 16th . |
| 25 | In the first place , although non-convertible bank notes may have been a new element , many — perhaps most — commercial transactions had long depended on paper bills rather than value-for-weight coin . |
| 26 | Many of the officers were released after Gen. Tanay had apparently gone on strike in protest . |
| 27 | Yeltsin had already asserted on Aug. 13 that , after signing the Union Treaty , the Russian Federation should control its own resources . |
| 28 | However , an EC threat to contribute only half of the amount deemed necessary for Bulgaria and Romania ( respectively $800 million and $1,000 million ) did not materialize , as EC Finance Ministers , meeting separately , had already decided on aid to these countries without the precondition of equal contributions from their G-24 partners . |
| 29 | At times Kylie , who had already appeared on television by then , would talk of her hopes for fame . |
| 30 | Brady met on Jan. 21 with the German Finance Minister Theo Waigel ( who declined afterwards to state a figure for the German contribution ) and with the Japanese Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto ( who had already stated on Jan. 18 that Japan would contribute a " substantial sum " to be decided " as soon as possible " ) . |