Example sentences of "[vb past] on [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cries rose on all sides of her as she filled the dishes , but she worked on steadily oblivious , like some eccentric female St Francis , brooding a little about the image seen in the vicarage garden , which , although it had turned out to be only an old cloth flung over a tree stump , was an indication of the way things might go . |
| 2 | He had a momentary vision of the tall , proud tower blocks that rose on either side of him collapsing in a cloud of dust . |
| 3 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 4 | Depreciation should be ( a ) calculated on the same basis as in the audited accounts for the year to 31 December , 1989 , and ( b ) charged on all assets on a monthly basis , with no upward revaluation of assets in the year and with due regard being paid to the carrying value of any assets and the length of the asset 's expected useful economic life to the Business , having due regard to the incidence of obsolescence and future requirements of the Business . |
| 5 | Wilson self-consciously capitalized on that supremacy in his ‘ First Hundred Days ’ of dynamic action , a deliberate imitation of the Kennedy style in early 1960 . |
| 6 | Medics in particular capitalized on this state of affairs , mobilizing the results of scientific research as part of their broader push for increased representation with the state . |
| 7 | Worsley capitalized on this opportunity by making the saltpetre project the centre-piece of a programme for revitalization of the British economy and the development of an integrated manufacturing and trading system embracing an expanding colonial empire . |
| 8 | ‘ So the folk of the village capitalized on this gift from the gods , that had come to them in their darkest hour . |
| 9 | The Sunday afternoon walk along the lanes was always interesting , even to very young children , for the high banks towered on either side of us , covered in wild flowers — campions , hemp agrimony , foxgloves , honeysuckle and many , many more . |
| 10 | We drew on these aspects in developing our recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study . |
| 11 | It has successfully developed and operated a port at Sheerness in Kent and drew on this experience in deciding to develop a commercial port in the easternmost portion of the old dockyard . |
| 12 | Lt Col W Yolland reported on this request to the Board of Trade , for which he was an Inspector of Railways , on 25th December 1865 . |
| 13 | I soon felt hungry and thirsty , and my first food was fruit which I found on some trees near a river . |
| 14 | First of all it was just covering the North Atlantic , the eastern seaboard of the States , perhaps Greenland and Iceland , and Europe down as far as North Africa , and erm we concentrated on that part of the atmosphere , but of course the atmosphere is continuous all round the globe , and whatever happens in any part of that atmosphere , any part of the globe , has some affect on the rest of the atmosphere . |
| 15 | The R/T was bad and I thought he said ‘ below you ’ so I concentrated on that section of the sky almost exclusively , leaving it to Dick to watch above us . |
| 16 | As Martha tried on each garment in turn , Elizabeth could see that she was on the verge of tears . |
| 17 | The hair was now centrally parted , and crimped on either side of the face . |
| 18 | After cutting out other drier , sun-lightened ends , we painted on some strands of High Lift Blonde Tint . |
| 19 | Curry played on that sense of panic when intimately caught with the money-grabbing Spettigue ( Patrick Cargill ) or the more civilised Sir Francis Chesney ( Frank Windsor ) who eventually found his long lost love when the real Donna Lucia did arrive . |
| 20 | The climax of his national captaincy , of course , came on that day in 1966 when he skippered England to their 4-2 triumph over West Germany at Wembley . |
| 21 | Not that many came on any sort of regular basis , much preferring the excitement of the streets to the acquisition of learning for which even the teacher herself , who had known far better days , considered they would have little use . |
| 22 | Actually just just quickly er I just noticed on that list of your questionnaires that we got back a couple that they did n't actually know what was going on . |
| 23 | Cambridge House Legal Advice Centre and Mary Ward Settlement Centre flourished on either side of the Thames . |
| 24 | If he comes to court , what happened at the police station does n't matter because he 'll then give direct evidence , not what he said in the police station but what actually happened on that night in the , in the estate . |
| 25 | We happened on some good 'uns , and we happened on some sort of funny ones when we goo round . |
| 26 | In her small workroom on the top floor of a crumbling old warehouse in Whitechapel Theresa Arnold shivered and turned on another bar of her portable gas fire . |
| 27 | He rose from the desk and turned on another light in the room . |
| 28 | Wilcox turned on some lights above the board table on the other side of the room . |
| 29 | We got advice from the officers that three point five percent might be achieved and therefore we we acted on that advice in making the amendments which we did . |
| 30 | A female landowner of substance induced a handsome peasant to live with her in her mansion ; the estate was cunningly converted into a collective farm , but the local peasantry frowned on this breakdown of the old class barriers . |