Example sentences of "[noun prp] with [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was next aware of dimly seeing her father lying face down on the path , his hands bent up behind him and Richard with one knee on his back . |
| 2 | There is Sydney Carton with one foot on the steps of the guillotine ; Oliver Twist with his empty plate held out ; Micawber with his back to the fire ( and to the wall ) enunciating his economic philosophy ; Uriah Heep , hunched as he rubs one humble hand over the back of the other . |
| 3 | Coverage of the Cheltenham Festival begins on BBC1 with four races on Tuesday afternoon ( 1.50–4.20pm ) followed by four more races on Wednesday afternoon ( BBC1 , 1.50–3.50pm and BBC2 , 3.55–4.30pm ) reaching a climax with the big one , the Tote Cheltenham Gold Cup , at 3.30pm during Thursday 's coverage ( BBC1 , 1.50–3.50pm and BBC2 , 3.55–4.30pm ) . |
| 4 | Ukraine , Kazakhstan and Byelarus , the three former Soviet republics in addition to Russia with nuclear weapons on their territories , signed a protocol to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) on May 23 in which they pledged to eliminate nuclear weapons by the end of the decade . |
| 5 | Two teams were dispatched to the area to bring aid to those displaced by the conflict over Nagorny-Karabakh , which continued throughout December with heavy fighting on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan . |
| 6 | Later , sitting in the Lagonda with one hand on the steering wheel , Mungo tried to recall what he knew about the dead girl , apart from her name . |
| 7 | In February , it swept past Jupiter with British instruments on board , harnessing the planet 's gravitational field to hurl it into an orbit enabling study of the poles of the Sun in 1994–95 . |
| 8 | Come the glorious Labour victory , ‘ Third Term ’ should be played at full volume outside Downing Street with special emphasis on the lines ‘ I want someone who will not waste my vote , I want someone who will give me hope ’ . |
| 9 | Come the glorious Labour victory , ‘ Third Term ’ should be played at full volume outside Downing Street with special emphasis on the lines ‘ I want someone who will not waste my vote , I want someone who will give me hope ’ . |
| 10 | A high-level delegation including the secretary general of the Foreign Office , Akram Zaki , held talks in Beijing with Chinese officials on Aug. 11-15 . |
| 11 | At that time , the B52 bombers were being introduced in large numbers and they needed air crews for them so we 'd be crossing the Atlantic with enough crews on one ship to man almost 1,000 aircraft . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Where were they when we were running down U-boat alley ? ’ he used to demand , and the boys would shake their heads dutifully , and William with some embarrassment on account of being half American himself . |
| 13 | One year after the US invaded Panama with 30,000 troops on December 20 , 1989 , and removed General Manuel Noriega from power ( see SR Feb 1990 ) , significant issues surrounding that invasion seem destined for the dustbin of ‘ murky endings ’ . |
| 14 | In the third picture , part of a ‘ striptease ’ title sequence , the princess was depicted in a union flag G-String with royal crests on her nipples . |
| 15 | The US State Department had on Dec. 7 provided the UN commission investigating war crimes in Bosnia with documented information on atrocities committed largely by Serbs against Moslems in Bosnia . |
| 16 | So perhaps perhaps Maid Marian with some lace on ? |
| 17 | The inner waiting-room recreated the central space of the baths of Caracalla with grand staircases on all four sides , rising through colonnades at each end under immense arches framed by Corinthian columns . |
| 18 | A slave was serving Jehana with sweet cakes on a tray . |
| 19 | One report is a series of essays in a common framework by national experts ; and the second is a more detailed examination of public attitudes to technical change in Britain with comparative material on France , Germany and Japan . |
| 20 | Pahdra Singh has told me that although Proby 's cousin did manage to register the stand as a car , he did so describing it as a 1964 Skoda with 300,000 miles on the clock . |
| 21 | Ferrari hid Mondial with clutchless transmission on Valeo stand ( right ) . |
| 22 | Despite unease over his campaign performance , he is credited by Mr Major with wrong-footing Labour on tax . |
| 23 | The passage of an austerity budget and approval of the IMF loan paved the way to an agreement in New York with commercial creditors on Feb. 20 to restructure more than US$5,300 million of commercial-bank debt . |
| 24 | To look at the effect on democratic institutions of violence in South Asia with special focus on India |
| 25 | A Reims Rocket took off from Newcastle with four people on board for a fight to Carlisle . |
| 26 | On that day a plane left Baghdad for London with 133 people on board , mainly women and children . |
| 27 | The clues consisted of four pictures : Snoopy with cream on his face , Charlie Brown with red paint on his hands , Donald Duck with muddy feet , and Mickey Mouse with a necklace sticking out of his pocket . |
| 28 | Then the men-at-arms under the two banners , the King 's and the Earl 's , had waited outside , and the rest had got round the gate and walked talking inside : the King Macbeth with less meat on him , like a man who fed at sea , and Siward of Northumbria the way he always was , with his chest round as a shield under his tunic , and only his hair and beard greyer than you would think for a man not much past fifty . |
| 29 | A yacht from Gloucester with 14 people on board , named after her sponsor Nuclear Electric , headed for the line at Southampton , and the tightest finish imaginable . |