Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a flash Perdita closed on him and bashed him across the knuckles with her stick . |
| 2 | It 's all enough to make one feel quite patriotic and forgive and forget the years of Allegros , Marinas and Princesses that British Leyland foisted on a wretched , unsuspecting British public . |
| 3 | Britain 's first undersea optical fibre will enter service in 1985 British Telecom announced on Tuesday . |
| 4 | Sixteen year old Francesca worked on the project . |
| 5 | Iraqi media reports prior to the meeting were uncompromising and blunt ; the daily al-Jumhuriya reported on July 30 that Iraq was attending the Jeddah talks to " retain its rights and not to hear new talks about " fraternity and solidarity " which yield nothing " . |
| 6 | The Rhapsody , too , is given a strong , swaggering but solid reading from that famous opening clarinet Glissando onwards ( it began its life , by the way , as a bit of tongue-in-cheek rehearsal mischief from Ross Gorman , the clarinettist of the Whiteman band ; the delighted Gershwin insisted on retaining it ) . |
| 7 | After Liverpool pulled level the non-stop Earle pounced on a Fashanu knock-down to score the winner . |
| 8 | Anti-government guerrilla activity from early November centred on the hinterland of Tadjoura and Obock — both coastal towns of about 10,000 inhabitants north of the capital . |
| 9 | The early Franks fought on foot , using spears and single-handed axes , usually with the protection of a shield wall . |
| 10 | OUTGUNNED Muslim forces fought off Serb and Croat attacks on two fronts yesterday as Bosnian Serbs voted on an international peace plan they seem certain to reject . |
| 11 | What is clear is that the degree to which the reformers achieved their stated aims was muted first of all by a partial backtracking on policy after 1947 under the pressures of worsening relations between the United States and the Soviet Union , and the burden which an economically prostrate Japan placed on the US taxpayer . |
| 12 | Yeah , she sle , little Zoe sat on her lap and just slept like a log , she was obviously tired . |
| 13 | The central committee of the Croatian LC met on Nov. 22 , 1989 , to discuss the LCY programme document [ see above ] . |
| 14 | Despite the ministrations of the Mine Surgeon poor Sarah died on the 13 June , and after this date none of the Duke girls appear to have worked on the mine again . |
| 15 | Three marches starting in Leicester , Stevenage , and Cambridge on Good Friday converged on Molesworth on Easter Sunday . |
| 16 | When the Great Hural opened on March 21 , Batmönh and Sodnom resigned . |
| 17 | Some prostitutes in ancient Greece hit on a novel way of plying their trade . |
| 18 | A united Germany acceded on Oct. 3 , reducing the membership again to 159 countries . |
| 19 | In July the central committee of the ruling PCT agreed on wide-ranging reforms , including the abandonment of Marxism-Leninism as the ideology of the state , but retained the status of the PCT as the sole legal party [ see p. 37602 ] . |
| 20 | In anticipation of presidential elections planned for Feb. 25 , 1990 , the ruling FSLN announced on Sept. 24 , 1989 , that President Daniel Ortega and Vice-President Sergio Ramírez Mercado would stand for re-election . |
| 21 | I was in the middle of my favourite dream , standing in the dungeons , sipping a cup of claret whilst masked torturers had Fat Henry spreadeagled on the cruellest rack . |
| 22 | The garrisons of Spanish Morocco rose on 17 July 1936 , a day earlier than planned . |
| 23 | Then Zulu Sierra came on frequency , spoke to Warton and reported 2,000 feet . |
| 24 | With the re-establishment of stable kingship in Kent and among the West Saxons under Wihtred and Ine respectively and the confinement of Mercian power , a period of relatively peaceful consolidation followed which lasted for a quarter of a century during which time kings in southern England embarked on that redefinition of their realms which is embodied in the extant laws of Wihtred and Ine . |
| 25 | Unlike its counterpart in Lithuania , however , which had split decisively from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in December 1989 [ see pp. 37128-29 ; 37168 ] , the Estonian CP decided on a six-month transitional period before taking a final vote on the issue of the party 's future relations with the CPSU . |
| 26 | When he cast his eyes around for the one place that seemed , for a man of business , the least affected by the tumult of war , the shrewd Samuel decided on Tangier . |
| 27 | Broadcasts of Iranian radio and television to Persian-speaking Tajikistan began on July 21 . |
| 28 | As Masud 's forces closed on Kabul from the north and east , encountering little opposition and making fresh alliances along the way , fighters from Gulbuddin Hekmatyar 's rival , hardline Hezb-i-Islami closed on the city from the south and east . |
| 29 | The boys ' watched transfixed , even when dirndl-clad Hausfraus cavorted on Austrian TV . |
| 30 | Some 20,000 railway workers in the region around Iasi city in north-eastern Romania went on strike on Feb. 8 . |