Example sentences of "[vb past] on the [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 At Eccles Church of England High School , near her parents ' home at Peel Green , she shone on the sports field .
2 A long time member of the Scottish Arts Council , George also served on the Arts Council of Great Britain and on the board of the British Film Institute — his down-to-earth assessments of proposals not always going down well at meetings of these organisations in London .
3 Since government did not pay for the expenses of witnesses , this cost also fell on the cattle owner .
4 WITH no singles matches scheduled yesterday , the spotlight in the Midland Bank World Indoor Bowling Championships at Preston fell on the pairs event .
5 Maxim stood on the rails md tried to imagine the bustle as a train panted in , of the steam glowing the lamplight at night , of the sense of distance and connection … but it was trying to imagine the broken chimes of a clock you never heard .
6 Erm , Stuart erm sat on the Police Liaison Committee .
7 Steve Whitton , who played the final 18 minutes in Saturday 's FA Premier League 4–3 defeat at Southampton , is named together with defender Eddie Youds who stayed on the subs bench .
8 McLaren jumped on the ground-effects bandwagon with the M28 , reasoning that the bigger the ground-effects area , the better the car would be .
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