Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A van passed them on the other carriageway . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ The Yorkshire Evening Post ( YEP ) used it on the front page with a by-line . |
| 11 | He found it on the far side , punched the red button and watched the big metal doors start to move . |
| 12 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 13 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 14 | He worked each through a transition training programme with the assigned aircraft and schooled them on the forthcoming filming . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The main street of the village faced them on the other side of the Westport road . |
| 17 | ‘ Like it ? ’ asked Sergeant , who had dashed round through the gate and now welcomed them on the other side . |
| 18 | The dark bulk of St Catherine 's faced him on the other side of the wide road . |
| 19 | He joined her on the cushioned seat . |
| 20 | Putting down his carrot , Hazel ran across , scrambled up the bank and joined him on the bare ground under the low , close boughs . |
| 21 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
| 22 | Cromwell 's foreign policy has been called out-of-date , because he based it on the bellicose anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling of the reign of Elizabeth . |
| 23 | He hit the ball left to right and he shaped it on the left-hand side on a sand dune , but it dropped in the dune on top of a hillock . |
| 24 | She arranged them on the big table on the terrace where they looked impeccable , like clothes set out for a wedding . |
| 25 | Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior . |
| 26 | In June 1901 , the Board received a letter in which he expressed his gratitude for the provision of a room for himself , and congratulated them on the efficient way in which the alterations had been carried out . |
| 27 | Jane Kennedy ( Labour ) pressed him on the recent article in the Independent , which stated that ministers had privately said they intended to issue new guidelines to family doctors to tighten up the eligibility criteria for the benefit . |
| 28 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 29 | The school seemed cold and it was certainly dark for the main windows faced north and tall buildings surrounded it on the other three sides . |
| 30 | Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National . |