Example sentences of "[vb past] on the [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hair rose on the back of the boy 's neck . |
| 2 | She knelt on the floor of the bedroom , a suitcase open in front of her , ramming in jerseys , shoes , underwear . |
| 3 | In an eloquent speech he dwelt on the reluctance of the adult deaf to attend divine service or to receive moral instruction and on the " appalling " lack of religious knowledge amongst the younger generation . |
| 4 | He mused on the state of the planet . |
| 5 | Lonrho 's ethics have been publicly queried in the past , so many in Whitehall are galled to see it cast on the side of the angels by its opposition to the Al Fayeds , after they had thwarted Lonrho 's own designs on Harrods . |
| 6 | Further changes were requested , one of which was to include the Scottish Crown in the four corners of the carpet , reflecting the one used on the ceiling of the Throne Room . |
| 7 | The sheer number of monks became an obsession that bound together reforming bureaucrats and their liberal heirs , showing how both drew on the criticism of the ‘ sterile ’ classes , which goes back at least to the sixteenth century . |
| 8 | Gloucester drew on the support of the northern duchy servants . |
| 9 | Gloucester drew on the support of the northern duchy servants . |
| 10 | Those who were not , but rose by exceptional ability , were invariably the subject of unfavourable comment , and when successful ( as in the case of Archbishop Willigis of Mainz , 975–1011 ) , it was because their rule drew on the capital of the Adelsheiliger tradition . |
| 11 | For the cardinal virtues and family structure the Meiji ‘ tradition ’ drew on the ethos of the warrior class . |
| 12 | Moore spoke about his determination to end ‘ dependency ’ , and drew on the work of the American Charles Murray , who was critical of many US welfare programmes . |
| 13 | I scribbled on the back of the one to Joan , ‘ Reggane 10.1.75 — still received no mail . |
| 14 | At the meeting I reported on the position of the gathering health service dispute and we then looked at a number of other pay issues . |
| 15 | Her dress shrieked as it caught on the comer of the table and tore . |
| 16 | Serious violence first erupted on the evening of the second day of the trial ( 28 February ) , when a contingent of Sacheverell 's supporters smashed the windows of Dr Burgess 's meeting house in Lincoln Inn Fields , and then proceeded to do the same to his house . |
| 17 | Bensons now have a large factory complex , much of it built on the site of the former canal basin of the Thames and Severn Canal Company . |
| 18 | Other factors beside the suspended sentence bore on the size of the prison population in the early 1970s , and the trends were not encouraging . |
| 19 | Lachlan released him , and sank on the edge of the bed . |
| 20 | Sophie concentrated on the sweetness of the apple and by the time she had gathered drops of juice along her tongue , Lori was below her , lying on the turf and crying because she had fallen in the near-dark . |
| 21 | The present research supplements that carried out from 1982-85 at King 's College London , which concentrated on the implementation of the Scheme in areas with large independent day schools . |
| 22 | This second report did not re-emphasise the need for massive resource transfers , instead it concentrated on the adequacy of the international financial system and the debt problem faced by many countries . |
| 23 | The talks between Israel and Syria concentrated on the status of the Golan Heights and were believed to have taken place in an atmosphere of tension and hostility . |
| 24 | The review prevaricated on the issue of the CAB 's obligation to provide specialist services to clients . |
| 25 | A similar incident occurred on the set of The Merry Widow in 1924 . |
| 26 | Interested parties disagreed on the interpretation of the findings . |
| 27 | We camped on the edge of the moorland among magnificent red-tasselled hagenia trees and clumps of yellow flowering St John 's wort ; above us the mountain was covered with giant heath ten feet and more in height . |
| 28 | Just before his gloved hand reached the water , the stick jarred on the bottom of the pond . |
| 29 | But there is one scene where I fall over a sofa , which we added on the day of the shoot . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It would be easier to get this back to London than to get an insurance assessor out here , ’ I added on the spur of the moment . |