Example sentences of "on [noun sg] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the youth fell overboard from the boat Boy Peter , one of two others on board threw a liferaft towards him but he failed to reach it . |
| 2 | A glow-globe on stand-by provided a dim orange light . |
| 3 | When Yorkshire Television 's documentary on asbestos showed a 10-year-old boy dying horribly of mesothelioma probably ( or even possibly ) caused by the asbestos he breathed while watching his father change asbestos-lined brake shoes , it does the asbestos industry no good at all to point out that the risk of contracting mesothelioma is quite low . |
| 4 | The stance on independence represented a victory for the party 's radical New Tide faction . |
| 5 | It was strange that this wild young man settled down to an exemplary career as a Marine and on retirement became a probation officer . |
| 6 | The Frenchman on pole made a poor getaway and Senna took the early lead , holding it for 23 laps before Prost , after several previous attacks had been rebuffed , forced his way by . |
| 7 | Prost on pole made a poor start and Senna took the early lead , holding it for 23 laps before Prost , after several previous attacks had been rebuffed , forced his way by . |
| 8 | The parliamentary Select Committee on Education saw a need for clarification and a more analytical approach , but the call for a national advisory body was rejected by the government . |
| 9 | Most of them were refugees from East Africa living in substandard conditions and paying exorbitant rents ; for them a second income was desperately needed , and going on strike seemed a dangerous business . |
| 10 | Last month 's column on stress brought a flood of enquiries for information on alternative treatments . |
| 11 | Shortly after this he paid for it by cheque and on request signed a statement that property in the van was not to pass to him until the cheque was cleared . |
| 12 | Cuvier 's emphasis on adaptation added a veneer of scientific authority to Paley 's utilitarian argument from design . |
| 13 | The Committee on Procedure recommended a maximum of two months but this was not accepted . |
| 14 | Clearly the availability of judgments and recent canons and books on procedure made a difference to the judges . |
| 15 | On top put a 1-lb. weight . |
| 16 | Mr Baker 's demands for more emphasis on grammar began a ridiculous debate in the newspapers , during which most participants revealed their misunderstanding of language by taking for granted that the rules of grammar are fixed and permanent throughout time . |
| 17 | The emphasis on permanence gave a high profile to ( and often statusful careers in ) adoption work and substitute care , including the identification of children whose links with natural parents should be broken . |
| 18 | The most miserable man on television put a smile on his face for a change today , to launch a new celebrity cookbook . |
| 19 | Q : I went to a computer auction and on impulse bought a boxed portable XT . |
| 20 | Detailed cross-tabulations of our main survey results ( not included in Appendix I ) showed that people who said they worried about money fairly often or very often on average had a markedly higher credit commitment than people who said they did not worry about money . |
| 21 | Cooks organized tours for servicemen and women on leave included a guided tour of the casbah in Algiers which was accompanied by an armed American guard . |
| 22 | A bomb disposal squad was called to the main postal sorting office in the French port of Le Havre after one of the postmen on duty detected a sinister ticking inside a parcel he was handling . |
| 23 | The Library Association Working Party on Training used a simple diagrammatic representation of a training cycle , as follows : Within the wider context of this training cycle , the following areas were considered : identification of needs , planning of programmes , and assessment of the effectiveness of training . |
| 24 | On April 12 two Fireflies on patrol attacked a formation of Japanese bombers heading for Okinawa , four of the bombers being shot down and the fifth badly damaged . |
| 25 | Cab On Target produced a bold round of jumping to defeat highly-regarded Dusty Miller at Doncaster . |
| 26 | For these reasons it seems reasonable to suggest that all lifeforms on Earth shared a common origin : there is little likelihood that it sprang up contemporaneously in several different parts of the globe . |
| 27 | The preeminence assigned to last hours on earth gave a special significance to the final words of the dying . |
| 28 | What on earth did a man on the wrong side of forty have to say to an eighteen year old ? |
| 29 | How on earth did a man the size of Nathan Bryce manage in here ? |