Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 2 | After some initial successes , the authorities cracked down on the protesters . |
| 3 | Ducks swam about on the lake , beside which we would sometimes sit of a summer evening after supper , before going back on duty . |
| 4 | As I walked round the lake , a flotilla of ducks paddled furiously after me , hoping to be fed , while fieldfares fluttered about on the lawns . |
| 5 | The town was grey and empty in the dull afternoon light ; cars swished through on the road going north , some with their headlights on , making everything else seem even dimmer . |
| 6 | As the cars lined up on the grid , Andretti on pole , Hunt alongside him , Pete Lyons wrote a wonderful paragraph which said it all : the mechanics drilling holes in Hunt 's visor so that he could see in the mist . |
| 7 | Police estimated no more than 30,000 party supporters turned out on the heavily barricaded streets , eager to be arrested by the 75,000-strong security forces . |
| 8 | And the words issued out on the wings of a wail . |
| 9 | Ajayi sat down on the small stool on the other side of the table . |
| 10 | The sit-down came on a day when Saints fans picked up on the ‘ Branfoot out ’ chants they began last season . |
| 11 | Many fans missed out on the limited runs of the seven-inch versions and the 12-inch was also more suited for export . |
| 12 | Many new fans missed out on the spiky delights of their early material so Red Rhino did a mopping up exercise and put 12 songs on a mid-price album called ‘ Tommy ’ . |
| 13 | The hours burned by on the green screen , and when they finally flopped in Lucy 's living room , sipping brandy , a key turned in the lock and in came the charmingly dishevelled one and only son . |
| 14 | with some goodies laid out on the table , |
| 15 | Even their parents got in on the act , when the Mercedes hired to take them to the reception blew up . |
| 16 | No sooner had a special train , carrying 633 people who had taken refuge at the West German embassy in Warsaw , arrived in Hanover yesterday than at least 200 more refugees turned up on the embassy doorstep . |
| 17 | There were only a few dresses but these were elaborate , expensive and curiously old-fashioned compared to the heap of jeans and dungarees piled up on the floor of the wardrobe . |
| 18 | She was barely aware of other tourists as the sound of their feet rang out on the cobbled streets , and over the following hours Fabia was deep in everything there was to see apart from the castle and the National Gallery with its collection of old and new European art . |
| 19 | As she hesitated in the shadow of the doorway , footsteps rang out on the patio from another direction , and she saw Salvo come into view , heading quickly across to where his older brother sat . |
| 20 | But once record companies went back on the sales offensive the new pop was easily coopted . |
| 21 | I watched the red tip of her cigarette glow ; white headlights streamed by on the other side of the motorway , as we headed north in the darkness . |
| 22 | Nineteenth-century industrial settlements grew up on the north side of Bolton with the great textile boom , when wealthy mill-owners created model villages after the example of Port Sunlight ( q.v . ) . |
| 23 | The handles were generally fixed first , also by plain rivets burred over on the shield 's front , at right angles to the grain of the wood ( Leeds and Shortt 1953 , p. 56 ; Jarvis et al . |
| 24 | There were nights when stone hot-water bottles left out on the floor froze solid . |
| 25 | The shelves ended up on the tip , and the new ones were made of wood and fixed to the wall with screws and wall plugs . |
| 26 | While all this went on , the parents sat around on the school 's battered garden furniture , the mothers watching each other warily , the fathers armoured in a remote mildness that Robert recognized from his own parent . |
| 27 | Initially these are no more than tiny wisps streaked out on the surface of the lava , like flecks of foam on a river , which are soon engulfed once more in the main mass . |
| 28 | Juliette lowered the iron on to a pair of trousers laid out on the ironing-board , producing a hissing cloud of steam through which she stared solemnly at Melissa . |
| 29 | I have little in them , nothing that matters , but those few crumpled contents laid out on the table are my possessions . |
| 30 | Later European governments got in on the act and set about invading and colonizing large chunks of the globe . |