Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun prp] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time Donna stepped on the accelerator and the Volvo shot forward , dirt and stones spraying up behind it as she guided it back onto the road . |
| 2 | In typical fashion Stirling decided on a bluff which had often helped him before . |
| 3 | But a stand-off over another convoy carrying food and other supplies to French UN troops in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo developed on the border between western Serbia and Bosnia . |
| 4 | That night Gabriel sat on the planking where his bed had been , and rehearsed brave , off-hand , modest responses to the playmaster 's sympathy … |
| 5 | That night Clare commented on the bathroom when she brought Carolyn her sleeping pills . |
| 6 | All day Stig rides on the sledge , a real sledge dog . |
| 7 | The unusual factor is that Phi Cassiopeiæ lies on the south-east edge of the cluster . |
| 8 | Another technical advance Chapman saw on the Continent was the ten-yard semi-circle to ensure that players kept their distance during a penalty kick . |
| 9 | Beneath this lay sixty to a hundred communion wafers , each no bigger than a ten pence piece , each with four small Xs crossed by vertical letter Ps embossed on the surface . |
| 10 | The swift intervention by his managing director , Brian Tesler , underlined the extreme sensitivity ITV feels on the subject . |
| 11 | His earliest recollections of All Ireland semi-finals and finals was 1975 when his older brother Anthony played on the Derry side beaten by Dublin at the semi-final stage . |
| 12 | One spring Conran went on a tour of sixty shops which sold his furniture . |
| 13 | One day Howard came on the set and Brando was down the beach talking to a pretty girl . |
| 14 | On the last day of the 1988 American presidential election Dukakis went on a whirlwind tour that must have been dreamed up by a desperate team . |
| 15 | A small truck was parked in it , with the name of the Floridian god NASA painted on the side . |
| 16 | In September 1983 Habitat Mothercare embarked on a joint publishing venture with Octopus Books plc under the name of Conran Octopus Ltd . |
| 17 | The next morning Kee got on the bus . |