Example sentences of "[vb past] on a wide [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Popular even among his political opponents , Mr Sim served on a wide range of public bodies , including the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities , the Scottish Valuation Advisory Committee and the North east River Purification Board . |
| 3 | Popular even among his political opponents , Mr Sim served on a wide range of public bodies , including the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities , the Scottish Valuation Advisory Committee and the North east River Purification Board . |
| 4 | Although as a group they had been officially emancipated in 1871 , burakumin became the sporadic scapegoats of popular resentment , and social discrimination persisted on a wide scale in spheres such as education , employment and marriage . |
| 5 | Then it focused on a wide plastic tray by Masklin . |
| 6 | Like a lot of the greats of that era , Ivan won on a wide variety of venues , the Severn , the Trent , all of the Fenland rivers , not small matches either . |
| 7 | The sons with their wives had the rooms , and the mother slept on a wide divan behind a curtain in a corner of the courtyard . |
| 8 | Unfreedom varied in its nature : it depended on a wide variety of relationships between lord and man . |