Example sentences of "of [noun] [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The astonishing show of support came on the day it was revealed that tapes of an intimate phone call between Di and a male friend are almost certainly genuine . |
| 2 | A look of horror appeared on the Campbell 's clock face . |
| 3 | An inviting smell of liquor rose on the steam . |
| 4 | The Ministry of Agriculture collaborated on the dog study and circulars have gone out urging villages to fence in their garbage dumps to deprive the animals of at least that source of food , but there is no wave of popular enthusiasm for slaughtering dogs wholesale . |
| 5 | I pulled it out , sat on one of the armchairs , and with a feeling of unreality started on the right-hand lock . |
| 6 | Lauterpacht concludes that the subsequent Resolution of the Assembly shows that the Assembly accepted the Court 's opinion , although a diversity of views persisted on the nature of the effect of the election . |
| 7 | A lot of prisoners slept on the floor because there were no beds or chairs . |
| 8 | ‘ Lot of money went on the favourite . ’ |
| 9 | Halfway through their feeding by the two adult bluetits , a pair of blackbirds appeared on the scene … and began to provide second helpings to every meal ! |
| 10 | Moving with them to north Africa , he was initially held in enforced inactivity behind the lines , a problem which he solved in characteristic style : ‘ The Battle of Alamein began on the 23rd of October , 1942 . |
| 11 | The House held that the burden of proof of causation remained on the plaintiff throughout the case . |
| 12 | For example , three representatives from the Isle of Ely sat on the committee although only four short courses had been arranged in that Authority . |
| 13 | He put these with his haul from the kitchen and crossed the room to where a pile of mail lay on the mat inside the front door , pausing on the way to look at some of the framed photographs and certificates that were arranged along the mantelshelf . |
| 14 | Thus , when the first flicker of daylight broke on the horizon at about 02.30 on 1 June , Jellicoe found the sea empty : Scheer had eluded him and was even then reaching sanctuary . |
| 15 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 16 | In the dusk , the street lamps illuminated the long riverside walk , and patches of light danced on the Thames in the clearness of the evening . |
| 17 | Spirals of light danced on the walls of the basement as he started down . |
| 18 | But the lines of light glittered on the carved glassy flowers and formed a bright hazy enveloping pattern with the triangles of round mandarins , the crisscross of orange peel , Marcus 's fine polyhedrons in the tree , the changing firelight itself . |
| 19 | From the window we could see to the right a barrel-organ with a small dog dressed as a clown , to the left a pile of rags heaped on the Métro ventilation grille . |
| 20 | Huxley , the exponent of laboratory physiology , won a great victory over Owen when he contrived to get a statue of Darwin placed on the main staircase of the Natural History Museum ; but justice has been done with the passage of time , and Owen 's statue is now in pride of place in his building . |
| 21 | In the kitchen the meat sizzled in the oven and a big pan of potatoes stood on the hob . |
| 22 | The great ecclesiastical towns lived on the churches and monasteries — perhaps a twentieth of the population of Valladolid depended on the Church — while soup and bread doles from the episcopal palaces and monasteries were an important element in the budget of the urban poor . |
| 23 | By the end of March about 40 tons of ore lay on the bank , having been carted down from Paddy End , and was ready for dressing . |
| 24 | Er we also have one other item of correspondence recorded on the list , er which was addressed to The Lord Mayor of Southwell , England , |
| 25 | Three pairs of footsteps clattered on the pavement , out of step , like three clocks . |
| 26 | The gaolers of Holovich reneged on the agreement , the exchange will not take place . |
| 27 | A bust of Lenin stood on the mantelpiece where once the Virgin smiled . |
| 28 | The one possible exception to this general rule used to be the jurisdiction of the court to quash a decision taken within the jurisdiction of the decision taker where an error of law appeared on the face of the record : Rex v. Northumberland Compensation Appeal Tribunal , Ex parte Shaw [ 1952 ] 1 K.B . |
| 29 | A light , high tang of fuel lay on the air . |
| 30 | Spreadbury , who had an otherwise impressive debut , had no explanation , though the ankle-deep water — 78 millimetres of rain fell on the pitch in about seven hours — must have been a distraction . |