Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 2 | In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed . |
| 3 | ‘ Some of our team just turned up on the night , pulled and had a belly full of beer . ’ |
| 4 | The royal train also clocked up on average a staggering £52,000 for each journey by a royal last year , figures showed . |
| 5 | Clemenza made an obvious starting point for Oliver , since he had also been commissioned to compose new recitatives for the opera in place of those which Mozart 's incompetent pupil Süssmayr reputedly dashed off on the coach trip to the Prague première . |
| 6 | Yes , her mum and dad just gone off on a cruise for er , I do n't know |
| 7 | Mrs Thatcher was known to dislike the rating system but the rates continued to climb , largely because the Treasury steadily cut back on the grants paid to local authorities . |
| 8 | Directly to his left the flint walls of Martyr 's Cottage glistened like marbles in the afternoon sun and less than half a mile to the north , set back among the Californian pines which fringed that part of the coast , was the dull square cottage rented by Hilary Robarts , a neatly proportional suburban villa incongruously set down on this bleak headland and facing inland as if resolutely ignoring the sea . |
| 9 | It should then tax all of that as personal income , less the proportion of the car 's annual mileage demonstrably clocked up on company business — commuting excluded . |
| 10 | They both jumped when , with a loud crash , a two-storey house suddenly caved in on itself . |
| 11 | My mother really looked down on them . |