Example sentences of "[vb past] on a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lie had a pronounced effect upon Lettice who immediately ventured on a small excursion into terror . |
| 2 | Princess Margaret Rose on a rare working day at the Rutland Railway Centre . |
| 3 | These are ancient divisions of the territory , recognized for centuries past as distinct pays , but you are unlikely to find them entered on a modern map , so I should apologize for introducing what will seem like obsolete names . |
| 4 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 5 | One of the first he had received from Sloane reported on a new hothouse at Chelsea and listed the exotics already growing there . |
| 6 | In It52 Lee Harris reported on a new play by Jane Arden at the Arts Lab . |
| 7 | A team at the University of Dundee reported on a neural computer that checks cervical smears containing up to 200,000 cells and decides whether they are abnormal or not with 96 per cent accuracy . |
| 8 | In 1978 ‘ Brass Tacks ’ ( BBC ) looked at lesbian use of Artificial Insemination by Donor , while ‘ Grapevine ’ ( BBC ) reported on a gay community centre in Birmingham , and the Gay Sweatshop Tour of Belfast . |
| 9 | She attempted to restore some order to her tousled hair with her fingers , then stroked on a little blusher to counteract at least a little of her pallor ; but there was little she could do to repair the ravages of the night , and finally she turned away with a heavy sigh . |
| 10 | The battle , never dormant , again erupted on a great scale on 25 September , and then once more on I3 November , when a massed British attack was launched along the River Ancre and Beaumont-Hamel was stormed . |
| 11 | ‘ Please , Naylor ! ’ she erupted on a panicky breath , and , when he hesitated and stared into her alarmed green eyes , ‘ Please d-do n't , ’ she stammered . |
| 12 | Finally it fixed on a black sword thrust straight through the branch above Rincewind 's head . |
| 13 | At one end is the Temple of Jupiter built on a high podium ; the Corinthian Order is used and the building was flanked by two triumphal arches . |
| 14 | They stopped on a straight stretch of upland road blatantly obvious and since there was a can of oil in the boot Maxim opened the bonnet to give them a cover story of the oil warming light having come on . |
| 15 | This broad sketch helped me to explore the crayon 's versatility without using the final painting as a trial piece , it also helped keep the whole composition in mind as I concentrated on a specific detail in the finished painting . |
| 16 | Because he concentrated on a single target while the Russians played their world-wide game , they sometimes failed to notice where he was pulling their fingers . |
| 17 | ‘ Promises ! ’ she exclaimed on a loving laugh , and thereafter put herself out to be the epitome of all she thought he would most dislike in a woman , shyly calling him darling whenever she had the chance . |
| 18 | A cloud swam on a cloud-reflecting tile . |
| 19 | With few exceptions , labor violence was the result of isolated and usually unplanned acts on a picket line , or occurred on a prohibited parade or demonstration protesting employer obduracy or police brutality . |
| 20 | Such colonization occurred on a large scale mainly in western Siberia , in areas nearest to the peasants ' departure point , and in regions largely pacified by the troops by the mid seventeenth century . |
| 21 | The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) reported at the end of September 1989 that seasonal ozone depletion over Antarctica ( believed to be caused primarily by chlorofluorocarbons — CFCs — see p. 36785 ) was increasing at the rate of 1.5 per cent a day ; the depletion largely occurred on a seasonal basis , with the ozone being replenished during summer months . |
| 22 | Dr Clark distinguishes this type of ‘ betterment ’ migration from longer distance ‘ subsistence ’ migration , which occurred on a significant level in the century before the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Civil War . |
| 23 | ‘ In Misano , when we crashed on a fast right-hander and Steve cracked a shoulder , I was thrown right over the top . |
| 24 | It was very crowded , two men came down the street , straddled on a trotting mule , and people pressed against us . |
| 25 | Every nerve smouldered on a short fuse . |
| 26 | We then had quite a few chances before Norwich scored on a rare break with 11 mins left . |
| 27 | During these experiments the people slept and woke on a regular cycle . |
| 28 | It is n't only that they enjoy commercial success and critical acclaim , but because they are , in the jargon of the trade , ‘ good copy ’ — talkative , controversial , witty and opinionated on a whole range of topics . |
| 29 | In fact , the glances they managed to exchange , glances which played on a wide keyboard of reactions , served both to spin them together and to show each other off . |
| 30 | Of course it 's a great challenge , but you can end up losing your own personality , because you 've got to ‘ be ’ somebody else if you 're playing these old songs , or maybe just following someone else who played on a particular album … ’ |