Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had forgotten my quest on the previous day in the pleasure of the poets ' company . |
| 2 | Dad had fallen and cracked his head on the fireplace . |
| 3 | The French General , knowing he had earned his pat on the head from the Emperor , shouted derision at their retreat . |
| 4 | But United 's trip to Hillsborough today will provide Fergie with a more revealing test of Cantona 's mettle , because Wednesday fans are unlikely to have forgiven or forgotten his walkout on the Owls 11 months ago . |
| 5 | He had succeeded his father on the board of the Great Western Railway , although not in the chairmanship . |
| 6 | It should be possible for your to join us at Big Ben on Wednesday 7 June : I have included your name on the list and I do n't foresee any problems . |
| 7 | To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1916 Rising , the National Museum of Ireland has revised its exhibition on the vital period of modern Irish history between 1900 and 1921 and called it ‘ The Road to Independence ’ . |
| 8 | In the present case there was a glaring absence of any reliable evidence as to exactly what happened on the occasion on which Mrs. Steed had placed her signature on the transfer . |
| 9 | No — each lady had personally placed her cake on the long table — without assistance . |
| 10 | The most notorious of those centred on an incident in December 1982 when two unarmed members of the Republican paramilitary organisation , the Irish National Liberation Army ( INLA ) , were shot dead after police officers had stopped their car on the edge of Armagh . |
| 11 | In the Amazon , the numbers of Indians declined , ceasing to be a threat to western expansion , so that by the second half of the last century , they were becoming more of a curiosity , regarded as anachronistic impediments to progress , which had to be educated on Christian lines on the one hand , the true lords of the territory to be given their freedom on the other . |
| 12 | The farm stands on a spur of moorland on the northern edge of the forest , and within 10 minutes I had turned my back on the corduroy battalions of trees and was striding under a still , cloudy sky over tussocks of rush and coarse grass , with my face to the long , bare shoulders of open hillside that flank the winding shallows of the East Kielder Burn . |
| 13 | At the end of 1985 he qualified as a solicitor ( ‘ this was the safety net and I had written my thesis on the copyright laws , which has been very useful to me ’ ) , but he had already decided to take the plunge as a full time professional musician . |
| 14 | Many of them have had their terms and conditions reduced , some have been dismissed and they now have no one to turn to as they have turned their back on the Trade Union which is their only guarantee of protection ’ . |
| 15 | Wimpey Environmental has built its reputation on the quality of its measurement work , and it is this element that distinguishes us from our rivals . |
| 16 | Who was the girl who had slept in this bed , written her name on the wall , and then written her diary in the Bible , twenty-five years ago ? |
| 17 | Carol Eastman , meanwhile , had written her screenplay on the inspiration of a Jack London story , which was similar moody vein to Ride the Whirlwind and she called hers The Shooting . |
| 18 | They have imposed their will on the House . |
| 19 | This would eliminate the insiders ' opportunity to profit from insider news , which would have already made its impact on the market . |
| 20 | Certainly these two had made their mark on the ever-widening fields of botany and horticulture when John Bartram wrote his first letter to Philip Miller on 20 April 1755 : |
| 21 | Ferguson accompanied the European Ryder Cup team as Colin Montgomery 's personal guru to Kiawah Island last year and has groomed many leading amateurs , several of whom who have made their mark on the European professional circuit . |
| 22 | Alas , many others had already made their judgment on the flimsy evidence of that supposed phone call … and had found the next King guilty . |
| 23 | She had turned her back on the lot of them , and married Frederick Bissett , from a terraced house in Leeds , bright boy of the street . |
| 24 | It has turned its back on the elitism of many consumer organisations and has based itself on a democratic structure in which the voluntary efforts of the members determine policy and action . |
| 25 | On the other hand , we tend not to see the intense depression in a motionless and unresponsive horse , or the annoyance in one that has turned its back on the horse or person offending it , or the anxiety in the tightened abdominal muscles of the showpony expecting the pain of the spur . |
| 26 | For Camus , Oran , the city of La Peste , ‘ capital of boredom besieged by innocence and beauty ’ , was the mirror image of Algiers : ‘ a city of dust and stone ’ that had ‘ turned its back on the sea ’ . |
| 27 | The sergeant bumped over the sleeping-policemen and gazed at the neatly trimmed lawns and hedges with aggrieved jealousy in his eyes : the private estate was a symbol of a world from which he was excluded , a world of privilege and snobbery , a world that had turned its back on the poor , the sick and the unfashionable who had been swarming round their car only ten minutes before . |
| 28 | The second point , briefly , is that the white paper has turned its face on the establishment of an environmental protection agency , and independent environment protection agency , and erm , you may feel strongly , I know there was another report that came out just about that time that erm was advocating it , and you may feel that what is needed is a central , independent environmental protection agency . |
| 29 | It was n't until after she 'd left that she 'd noticed his name on the football reports . |
| 30 | Edwards 's trailblazing feat opened the way to others : by the time he 'd strapped his board on the roof-rack of his car , he claimed , three other men were already out . |