Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 2 | In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed . |
| 3 | ‘ Some of our team just turned up on the night , pulled and had a belly full of beer . ’ |
| 4 | Clemenza made an obvious starting point for Oliver , since he had also been commissioned to compose new recitatives for the opera in place of those which Mozart 's incompetent pupil Süssmayr reputedly dashed off on the coach trip to the Prague première . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher was known to dislike the rating system but the rates continued to climb , largely because the Treasury steadily cut back on the grants paid to local authorities . |