Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A BODY found washed up on a beach in Kent has been confirmed as that of missing Essex woman Lisa Benner . |
| 2 | The journalists claim in ‘ Ambush : The War Between The SAS and the IRA ’ that the SAS man drove a lorry identical to the ex-UDR man 's and pretended to break down on a lonely Tyrone road . |
| 3 | He had borrowed the ledger one night and read how a member of the Longford militia came galloping up on a foam-flecked horse to the doors of Carewscourt , yelling that the French and Irish had scattered Lake 's army to the four winds and that they were coming south and for everyone to flee , flee , flee if they valued their lives … . |
| 4 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 5 | Our reporter Clare Lafferty joined the crew of an RAF Hercules as they prepared to take off on a ’ Flight For Life ’ . |
| 6 | Nor are folk expected to doss down on a pair of planks across the bath . |
| 7 | If it 's any consolation to you I needed to check up on a patient anyway . |
| 8 | Luckily I managed to warm up on a few business trips ! |
| 9 | Yep , we managed to get in alright , pretty decent seats as well , even though it meant missing out on a few pints and getting there at 1o'clock . |
| 10 | If they did set out on a journey , it was usually on business or a pilgrimage or to go to war . |
| 11 | Her mother 's was on a tray with fine china , nothing to eat , slices of lemon for the pale , scented tea she liked laid out on a glass dish like a shell . |
| 12 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 13 | The activists had given up on a people 's peace — and they were not yet ready to explore the possibilities of a people 's war . |
| 14 | Lucy had curled up on a pile of old throwouts in the corner of the Wardrobe department , and had pulled some of them over herself like a burrowing animal . |
| 15 | She had detoured through the town 's central square on the way home and had sat down on a bench , raising her head to the trees . |
| 16 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 17 | We had come out on a broad dirt road . |
| 18 | It was as though everyone had dashed off on a far bigger , far better story than they had covered in their lives . |
| 19 | Not bad for a girl who had grown up on a council estate . |
| 20 | It was mizzling steadily , so I had lashed out on a minibus ticket , which cost more than a taxi would here . |
| 21 | Sanchia Holmes , manageress of the Framework clothes shop , said Saturday was usually their busiest day and they had missed out on a good deal of custom . |
| 22 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , claimed the council had missed out on a major tourist attraction . |
| 23 | Baby Jesus was real poor , so he had to grow up on a farm and that , and when he got bigger he went round with some friends telling everyone about God , and then he died . |
| 24 | The pot was taller than a man , and a prisoner had to climb up on a table in order to extract a sample with a huge ladle . |
| 25 | Fellow student Keith Gregory responded to an advert Gedge had pinned up on a university notice board which sought an ‘ Introverted bass player , influenced by The Fall , The Chameleons , The Velvet Underground and The Sound . ’ |
| 26 | The reference to the tent meant either that ‘ John Parsons ’ had written it , and was hoping to see me around , or that they had teamed up on a declared truce . |
| 27 | Sheriff Principal Robert Hay was told how Mr Watts , of Preston , Lancs , had set out on a week-end jaunt on the fatal day . |
| 28 | They had set off on a sunny morning to paddle their canoes a short distance along the Dorset coastline from the St Albans Centre , Lyme Regis . |
| 29 | He stretched and picked up the phone , but before he could dial he realised he had cut in on a conversation . |
| 30 | He reflected gloomily on the price of his ambition , because he had gone out on a limb to persuade a mistrustful and increasingly hostile Kenamun to consent to the operation he had mounted , and then he had only achieved it by linking Surere to the serial killings . |