Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or got on the same bus . |
| 2 | With few exceptions , labor violence was the result of isolated and usually unplanned acts on a picket line , or occurred on a prohibited parade or demonstration protesting employer obduracy or police brutality . |
| 3 | Random sampling means that a batch is accepted or rejected on the basis of the number of rejects found after taking a random sample from the batch . |
| 4 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 5 | She sat or perched on an upright chair smiling like an angel just dropped from the skies . |
| 6 | By another of the technical innovations or borrowings which mark the art of this time , terracotta figurines and heads are no longer generally made freely by hand or turned on the wheel but pressed into moulds . |
| 7 | Every time you looked at a magazine or newspaper , or turned on the television , there was the world of the young as it was today . |
| 8 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 9 | In the shower cubicle , water hissed on ceramic tile or clattered on the green plastic curtain , according to the gyrations of the nude body within . |
| 10 | And if I do read a paper it wo n't be for for very long because all the stuff it 's got in it I 've seen it one telly or heard on the radio . |
| 11 | You must have claimed dole for eight weeks or served on the Youth Training Scheme or be able to produce formal notice of redundancy . |
| 12 | They can dispense with the claim that science must start with unbiased and unprejudiced observation by making a distinction between the way a theory is first thought of or discovered on the one hand , and the way in which it is justified or its merits assessed on the other . |
| 13 | ‘ Vechey was drugged or knocked on the head , the corpse being strung up for others to find . ’ |
| 14 | Jared Tunstall , who manipulated billions of dollars , made and broke men at will , whose power was legendary , had never managed in a clash of wills with the daughter he adored to overcome her , once she had made her mind up , or decided on a course of action . |
| 15 | Members of several gangs , from earliest teens to twenties , crowded the cracked plastic benches in the reception vestibule or squatted on the floor , awaiting processing , a slow operation . |
| 16 | In his view , the court could intervene only if the minister ( a ) failed or refused to apply his mind to or to consider the question whether to refer a complaint to the committee or ( b ) misinterpreted the law or proceeded on an erroneous view of the law or ( c ) based his decision on some wholly extraneous consideration or ( d ) failed to have regard to matters which he should have taken into account . |
| 17 | And er also down at Long Eaton Labour Exchange , which we walked to , or went on the train for tuppence , we had to er fetch our money on Friday night . |
| 18 | They slipped on the blood-slicked cobbles or tripped on the bodies that choked the ground . |
| 19 | Executives need to know how to lay on services that are outside normal agency routine : how to set up a direct marketing operation ; organize an effective exhibition ; or lay on a cabaret at a salesmen 's conference . |
| 20 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |
| 21 | Any claim should be settled or repudiated on the basis of a reasoned decision , taking into account concrete evidence obtained first hand rather than relying on purely comment and observations . |
| 22 | For one skate , on loan , to go round the block ( a distance of perhaps 500 yards ) the cost was one penny ; for two skates , two pennies ; any kid who took longer than 10 minutes ( thus being under suspicion of going further ) would be fined another two pence — or punched on the nose . |
| 23 | During cross-examination yesterday — the 13th day of the trial — a prosecuting lawyer suggested that he was either kicked or stamped on the leg by another soldier , or struck by a rifle . |
| 24 | If this was inconvenient , Richard did not say so , although to be called to the telephone , or wanted on the telephone , as Richard put it , always seemed a kind of reproach in itself . |
| 25 | Perhaps this would apply if they had walked along that village street or sat on the green or drunk in the local , but they had not . |
| 26 | And if you 're worried in case anyone in the family has drunk out of a cup her husband used , or sat on the same loo seat or given him a friendly kiss , relax . |
| 27 | But , indulging a passion more secret than her love for Italian painting , Molly had early gone off with Holmes and Watson in a cab through the pea-souper , or sat on the edge of her chair while Poirot summoned the guests to assemble in the library after tea . |
| 28 | She moved purposefully away to the group who lay in the darkness under the cypress trees , or sat on the walls and steps of the garden , and began to activate them so that a light dress , or white pair of jeans could be seen jigging about in the night that had suddenly fallen . |
| 29 | For breaktime the children played on the climbing frames , or sat on the grass . |
| 30 | Nobody discovered , pre-opening , that the hair-dryers provided in one luxury provincial hotel could only be used if the guests bent double or sat on the bedroom floor . |