Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [adj] [noun] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this old chassis had been built up so that this bearing lay on that and it was turned by and electric motor and all that and the boring bar went tool went and bored this bearing out and travelled along on its own its own It was fed off course . |
| 2 | Adrian Stayte 's eyelids were stuck together when two men pounced on him as he was delivering milk in Cheltenham yesterday . |
| 3 | The Swede , playing in the penultimate group , finished his round just as Spanish television came on the air and the situation embarrassed tournament director David Probyn . |
| 4 | More than 500 weavers went on strike in defence of this " ancient custom " , staying out through the winter from November to February before they were reduced to acceptance of the threepence compensation . |
| 5 | More than 1,100 Merseysiders travelled on 30-shilling return rail trips from Liverpool to London , allowing up to nine days in the Metropolis . |
| 6 | More than 40,000 men fell on the side of Lothar and Pippin " . |
| 7 | On Dec. 5 , 1990 , more than 1,000,000 workers went on strike for 48 hours in protest at a proposed law allowing the dismissal of workers participating in strikes judged to be illegal . |
| 8 | More than 40 officers went on alert when Colonel Martin Gillis-Tweed , 55 , threatened to go berserk with an arsenal of guns . |
| 9 | More than 70,000 miners went on strike on March 1 in protest at European Community ( EC ) plans to reduce state subsidies to the coal industry . |
| 10 | OUTGUNNED Muslim forces fought off Serb and Croat attacks on two fronts yesterday as Bosnian Serbs voted on an international peace plan they seem certain to reject . |
| 11 | Opponents point out that competing services ran on Britain 's first railway , the Stockton-Darlington line , opened in 1825 , but were abandoned as impractical after 1830 . |
| 12 | Speaking after the hearing , investigating officer Pc Harry Sexton of Chelmsford Traffic Police revealed the men were caught after a three-month investigation which culminated in seven search warrants being executed simultaneously as 24 officers swooped on the three vehicles . |
| 13 | Speaking after the hearing , investigating officer Pc Harry Sexton of Chelmsford Traffic Police revealed the men were caught after a three-month investigation which culminated in seven search warrants being executed simultaneously as 24 officers swooped on the three vehicles . |
| 14 | The boys ' watched transfixed , even when dirndl-clad Hausfraus cavorted on Austrian TV . |
| 15 | DESPITE the Ministry of Defence 's ( MoD ) statement that no more check-flights would be undertaken on Vulcan B.2 XH558 — enabling the flightcrew to stay current should the decision to ground her be reversed , or she be flown to her next owner ( FP November , p26 ) — the mighty Vulcan flew again from Waddington , Lincs , in October and was due to fly again as this issue went on sale . |