Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The can of soup that he 'd left on top of the flame was starting to bubble when he got back . |
| 2 | In the other he clutched a fifty-p piece , a coin he 'd discovered the evening before in Mrs Abigail 's purse , which carelessly she 'd left on top of the refrigerator . |
| 3 | During the tight formation take-off his eyes were on Stefan and the Spitfire as they climbed to get on top of the haze . |
| 4 | The ‘ Fury needing only half throttle to keep up with the Spitfire as they climbed to get on top of the haze . |
| 5 | Sinn Fein failed to get on top of the SDLP in other constituencies but in some areas such as Fermanagh-South Tyrone it ran it a very close second , and it remains to be seen how it will develop its position and policies . |
| 6 | Property shares continued to slide on awareness of the full extent of falling asset values and the growing danger of breaching banking covenants . |
| 7 | But I had not voluntarily given up my ‘ lecturing ’ ; my institute had closed on account of the Cyprus situation , and I had to make do with inadequate ‘ private means ’ , even ‘ touching capital ’ , which would have deeply shocked Ivy . |
| 8 | Johnson slept on the hay in his huge-pocketed greatcoat ; Boswell laid the sheets his wife had packed on top of the hay and , observed Johnson , ‘ lay in linen like a gentleman ’ . |
| 9 | … then , without any question of resort to a court of equity , there might have been a defence in a court of law on the ground that any money recoverable on the note by the plaintiffs was recoverable by them merely as trustees for Sir Richard Temple , and that , under the circumstances disclosed by the correspondence , the relations between the father and son were such that it was impossible to suppose that the father wished to insist on payment of the note by the son . |
| 10 | I 'll keep it for breakfast , " she pointed to the scone which Nicandra had laid on top of the po cupboard , " I love them … scones . " |
| 11 | As Bartocci took his coat , the crucifix which Zen had laid on top of the filing cabinet the previous evening fell to the floor . |
| 12 | Undoubtedly , he was deeply impressed by what they had created on top of the ruins left by the Korean War . |
| 13 | I , standing on my tiptoes I could n't see out the window to , to look out to the stage erm , and there was a huge step up , it was about that , which was great for people 's bad backs and if you got up on that , erm then you sat on top of a very high cocktail chair , in fact one of our people had to kneel on top of the high cocktail chair , to look , to see down , over the window , down to the stage and they did n't give us a sound feed which would sound familiar |
| 14 | A big box of shells sat opened on top of the post in front of him ; a foot switch at the end of a long , snaking flex operated the catapult in the pit . |
| 15 | The dealer refused to pay on account of the fact that the work ‘ Moses and the Angel ’ was not accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Marc Chagall . |