Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [vb past] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 They had just turned into Bacon Street when he heard a loud voice calling to him and pulled sharply on the reins .
2 Reports said a SAM 727 had just touched down at El Dorado international airport when an Air France Boeing 747 came roaring over it and landed ahead on the same runway .
3 He crashed into a table , somersaulted over it and landed heavily on the carpet .
4 Constance was not ready for it and rolled away on the grass .
5 Seeing an upright chair stationed between the windows , she made a lunge for it and collapsed sideways on the rush seat to lean , exhausted , against the cold wall .
6 Because that misidentification insisted on making trade unions the vehicle for it but insisted also on the continuance of their traditional role , the outcome was bound to be primarily about an extension of their power in the performance of that role , the role that implicates trade unionism as the reciprocal to the ownership of the means of production and provision within the total system , Capitalism , as it evolved in Victorian Britain .
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