Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolm got right on the phone with him and sorted it out . |
| 2 | Robbie , her own eyes avoiding that scrutiny , looking anywhere but at him , noticed a pair of pyjama trousers slung carelessly on the floor . |
| 3 | For this reason , when asked to host a Commonwealth conference in Ottawa , the Canadian government agreed only on the condition that the USA was also invited , to avoid charges of ‘ ganging up ’ . |
| 4 | After long discussions with Prof Spitz and his team , who had performed two similar operations before , the Holtons agreed only on the basis that each child would have an equal chance and organs would be shared equally . |
| 5 | ‘ We and the Big Ones lived only on the savannah . |
| 6 | At Collioure there was a great castle built right on the sea , and little boats , and placid fat women in black stockings . |
| 7 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 8 | Frau Nordern moved uneasily on the bed . |
| 9 | And then it rolled away down the hill and then it went over the road and then it stopped right on the railway and then … and then … ’ |
| 10 | He sucked furiously on the joint , staring at the ceiling . |
| 11 | Secondly , the gift must be made upon the condition that it is to be absolute and perfected only on the donor 's death , being revocable until that event occurs and ineffective if it does not . |
| 12 | It is difficult to draw a line between a company car that is a pure perk and one used constantly on the job by a salesman or service engineer . |
| 13 | The philanthropist Helen Bosanquet drew eagerly on the work of the French sociologist Frederick Le Play to argue that the ‘ stable family ’ with its male breadwinner was ‘ the only known way of ensuring with any approach to success , that one generation will exert itself in the interests and for the sake of another ’ . |
| 14 | Quite deliberately , she summoned the memory of the anguish of six years ago , the job she loved summarily barred to her and her Communications course sacrificed ; and she dwelt especially on the dilemma that had torn at her then , the agonising conflict between her obstinate determination to pursue an uninterrupted career in radio at a time when there were no positions to be had in Johannesburg but possibilities in Durban , and a heart-wrenching reluctance to leave her parents alone when advanced emphysema was shortening her father 's life so cruelly . |
| 15 | She picked up a slotted spoon from the table and beat gently on the tin lid . |
| 16 | As she sucked thoughtfully on the cigarette her mind wandered back to the contents of the dossier they had prepared on Benin . |
| 17 | The basket bumped gently on the tree branch . |
| 18 | Seawitch moved gently on the water . |
| 19 | The two or three families who had come without money or slaves and who had kept themselves rigorously segregated from the few black people they found already on the island , were still shunning newcomers . |
| 20 | Entwined snakes of gold and scarlet streamed through each other as the sail , rolling and writhing , fled away on the wind . |
| 21 | An electric fan heater thrummed away on the floor next to the table while the two bars of the electric fire in the hearth burned like red-hot pokers . |
| 22 | He drew deeply on the cigarette — hand-rolled , Matthew could not help noticing and hoped no-one else had — in his holder . |
| 23 | He drew deeply on the cigarette and stared out at the darkening sea . |
| 24 | She fled home on the underground , scolding herself for being such a coward , it could all be over now if she 'd been sensible . |
| 25 | Determined to recover as quickly as possible , she sucked harder on the juice and asked the nurse for another one as soon as she was finished . |
| 26 | Before lunch , Lord Donaldson pronounced further on the case of William Goodwin , 23-year-old journalist for The Engineer . |
| 27 | Before lunch , Lord Donaldson pronounced further on the case of William Goodwin , 23-year-old journalist for The Engineer . |
| 28 | Replacing the wallet , he produced a gold pen , scribbled quickly on the back of it and handed it to Lisa . |
| 29 | Centrophenoxine has a similar history as a tonic preparation for geriatrics , used more on the Continent than in England and America . |
| 30 | Children eyed the closed Essoldo ; a handful of golfers moved briskly on the golf-course . |