Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
| 2 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 3 | And it should be issued separately , not mixed in with tips on where to go and what to buy . |
| 4 | Captain Schott 's party was picked up by Timpson on the night of 13 July , but Warr 's failed to arrive . |
| 5 | Mouse had been curled up with Wolf on one of the mattresses , sleepily combing the tangled hair of Wolf 's great mane with his fingers , when the sandy-haired woman slammed through the door and kicked it shut behind her . |
| 6 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 7 | No he 's just come back from Tunisia on holiday so he 'll need it . |
| 8 | A convicted robber has come out of prison on parole … and walked straight into a job as a professional actor . |
| 9 | While we were in Poona we bought darling Sally because Rachel had become rather afraid of dogs , and while we were there who should turn up one day but dear old Madriya — he had come out of Burma on foot with his wife and daughter — he carried my old sewing machine for some time ! |
| 10 | In the cold-war days , most of its operations were pretty straightforward and problems could be sorted out by officers on the ground . |
| 11 | The conference over , Henry was carried back to Chinon on a litter and there , on 6 July 1189 , he died . |
| 12 | But one grey-haired uplander disappeared into a hole below a boulder and was pulled out by the hair and carried back towards Keltney on a stretcher of cut branches . |
| 13 | On completion of the conservation programme the Firefly was officially rolled out at Duxford on June 2 , in company with the IWM 's Fairey Gannet XG797 and Sea Hawk WM969 , both of which had been subjected to a similar conservation programme . |
| 14 | For example a great deal of work is being carried out at present on the re-structuring of our training courses with a view to safe guarding the status of our Examination Award and gaining future exemption from lengthy in-service training for newly-qualified teachers . |
| 15 | Experiments are being carried out at Cambridge on a wheat-rye hybrid known as Triticale , which , it is hoped will have the growing and ripening qualities of rye and the baking qualities of wheat . |
| 16 | Paint and sign work carried out to toilets on the recreation grounds . |
| 17 | The findings of a pilot study carried out by NATTA on attitudes to the Severn Barrage develop this last point further . |
| 18 | In most instances , however , it is more practicable to base assessments on tests carried out in parallel on carefully selected control products . |
| 19 | He also remembered with a sense of humiliation and disgust that the pages of the Informer were now given over to articles on gay rights , the ‘ politics of feminism ’ and peer pressure towards glue-sniffing in the inner cities . |
| 20 | The crackle of the smooth white sheets , already turned down in readiness on the immaculate bed . |
| 21 | The aircraft was shot down over Norway on February 9 , 1945 and salvaged from underwater . |
| 22 | An Azerbaijani civilian helicopter was shot down near Shusha on Jan. 28 , killing an estimated 40 people and prompting a major Azerbaijani offensive against Stepanakert on Jan. 31 . |
| 23 | Freddie Crewe , of Maidstone , who left the RAF as a squadron leader in 1962 , flew Hurricanes and Spitfires in the war and was shot down near Brest on 3 August 1943 . |
| 24 | The Arundel trainer had felt an April fool when his first two runners of the campaign — including an odds-on shot — were turned over at Brighton on Thursday . |
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| 27 | Hers was a brave effort for one who had to be whisked off to hospital on Tuesday after a painful accident . |
| 28 | All these statements are best treated as being theoretical models , which are built up by Freud on the basis of the types of emotional relationship which he had observed during his work with patients and conceptualized in a terminology of his own . |
| 29 | There was some muttering among officials after the game that only nine players had turned up for training on Tuesday , but despite the defeat coach Bruce Liddle remained cheerfully optimistic . |
| 30 | The four divisions of the BEF had moved up to Mons on 22 August , in full expectation of forming part of an offensive on the Allied left wing . |