Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 2 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 3 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 4 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 5 | A van passed them on the other carriageway . |
| 6 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 7 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 8 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 9 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 10 | there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one . |
| 11 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 12 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 13 | The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye . |
| 14 | Rose gave a yelp of rage , her arm shot out and Evelyn gave an involuntary cry as the stone caught her on the left shoulder . |
| 15 | But Gareth Williams beat him on the second . |
| 16 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 17 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 18 | ‘ The Yorkshire Evening Post ( YEP ) used it on the front page with a by-line . |
| 19 | But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four . |
| 20 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 21 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 22 | He found it on the last day of 1869 under nearly twenty feet of sand . |
| 23 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 24 | He worked each through a transition training programme with the assigned aircraft and schooled them on the forthcoming filming . |
| 25 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |
| 26 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 27 | Hallo sir , you 're calling about your daughter , Jennifer , erm I 'm sorry , I do n't really have any more information to add to what we told you on the twentieth . |
| 28 | He was seen twice near the village of Langley Park on Saturday night , and yesterday a woman noticed him on the busy A167 dual carriageway on the outskirts of Durham City about 10 miles from Lanchester . |
| 29 | My friend 's friend advised us on the best solicitors for a rape case , but warned that the final bill might be enough to buy a flat in Mayfair . |
| 30 | The main street of the village faced them on the other side of the Westport road . |