Example sentences of "[vb past] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ball shot forth , bounced on the frosty road and rolled sadly on to the grass verge . |
| 2 | Rain and hail bounced on the tiled roof with such venom that Tom and Willie were quite deafened . |
| 3 | The first evidence of this surfaced on the second trip that I made to Rhodesia , in April 1971 . |
| 4 | To crown this important exhibition of French sculpture , Bellanger has come up with something quite exceptional : Clodion 's ‘ Sacrifice à l'amour ’ , originally shown at the 1773 Salon , which only recently surfaced on the international market and has been brought back to France for this occasion . |
| 5 | The sun rose on the sixth day . |
| 6 | She knelt on the greasy bed , feeling like something out of the Arabian Nights , and laughed when he pushed her backwards into the pool of oil . |
| 7 | All was going well until I knelt on the front overlap . |
| 8 | ‘ Really and truly , ’ Laura told them both firmly , heedless of her smart dress and shoes as she knelt on the damp sand , her arms placed warmly about their two anxious figures . |
| 9 | She knelt on the cold stone floor and carefully placed some coals on the dying embers in the grate . |
| 10 | She did n't know how long she knelt on the cold floor with her mother still and silent in her arms . |
| 11 | ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . ) |
| 12 | I knelt on the wooden floor in the East Yorkshire winter praying , " Dear God if you exist let me be warmed . " |
| 13 | I knelt on the top step and poked my head through , near the bottom of the gap … |
| 14 | The campaign of the Conservative candidate , Richard Hickmet , was criticized for the way in which it dwelt on the controversial claim that it would be a " moral victory for terrorism " if the seat were to change hands as a result of the killing of Gow . |
| 15 | In Rome these stressed the emperor 's achievements ( military victories , public works , etc. ) , his virtues and divine endorsement of his regime ; in the provinces they dwelt on the important cults or monuments of the city which made them . |
| 16 | Instead , amid a trenchant attack on the Government 's record , he dwelt on the vital role of trade unions in the fight to restore workers ' rights . |
| 17 | The vessel can be transferred when the portcullis gate on the tank ( the one at the opposite end to the one used on the upper transfer ) has been lifted . |
| 18 | The latter approach is the one used on the Modular Course . |
| 19 | Not the one we took off ya , the one ya used on the big guy ? ’ |
| 20 | David Hall exhibited at MOMA an elegant piece which drew on the lost potentialities of the Nipkow disc , mechanical heart of the early Baird Televisor , ‘ superseded ’ and eradicated by a progress which has been synonymous with standardization . |
| 21 | He drew on the first cigarette for eight years , nearly choked , and wheezed : ‘ First today , anyway . |
| 22 | In their campaign to rupture parliamentary discretion and medical hegemony , the women and men of the repeal movement drew on the only vocabulary able to bear the moral and intellectual weight of their challenge . |
| 23 | However , the eventual transference from the classical curriculum to a modern alternative , and the enhancement of English and Englishness which was one of its major products , drew on the raw materials provided by the scholarly work of the middle decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | To put it very generally , from the mid-1950s ( the rock 'n' roll moment ) to the end of the 1960s the dominant sensibility in pop was a rock sensibility which had , at its cutting edge , an account of itself which drew on the Marxist critique of mass culture . |
| 25 | Hailed as a modern masterpiece , it drew on the basic elements of nineteenth-century picturesque — towers , pavilions , arches , and vaults — but gave them a distinct Scandinavian feel and line , the spirit of the sagas , as embodied in the gigantic statues at the entrance . |
| 26 | The association was chaired by John Hume and drew on the self-help traditions of the credit unions . |
| 27 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 28 | Quadraphony had arrived , and Edward Greenfield reported on the first issues . |
| 29 | President Marjorie Clarke expressed pleasure at seeing Kay Hampton back after her recent illness and she reported on the good progress being made by Sue Rankin and Miss Elliott who had also been ill . |
| 30 | On the British side there was a string of adverse comments on French performance and attitudes from newspaper correspondents ; although the Daily Telegraph correspondent was not being particularly sensational when he reported on the unnecessary brutality of the French and concluded ‘ The solution of the problem of rule in Indo-China will depend primarily upon French ability to exercise tact and conciliation ’ . |