Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Norman Schwarzkopf rose through the army ranks on his feet , as an infantryman . |
| 2 | We sailed , we climbed the precipice behind the villa , walked among the chestnut woods on the mountain slopes and came back to eat delicious Italian food cooked by the voluble old peasant woman who looked after the villa . |
| 3 | Jane fidgeted with the signal pads on her desk , plucked a thread from the sleeve of her jacket then stared blankly at the chewed end of her Admiralty-issue pencil . |
| 4 | Sitting in the steaming restaurant the rain and condensation dribbles on the upper half of the window competed with the lace curtains on the bottom half . |
| 5 | Nathan kicked snow off the bridge , watching it explode in orange light as it swept past the navigation lights on the bridge supports . |