Example sentences of "[vb past] on [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dwelt on this potential disaster so often , and with such emotion , that eventually a freak electrical fault did cause a fire . |
| 2 | The last year had been like a dream , a fairy tale ; but suddenly , as the cameras retreated and the curtains drew on another quiet Balmoral evening , with the Queen insisting on formal dress for dinner , as she does every night , the dream began to dissolve . |
| 3 | ( Rich 1986 ) In Britain the work of Claire Johnston and Pam Cook on Hollywood films by 1930s and 1940s women directors established an alternative brand of feminist writing on film , introducing criticism which drew on both Marxist theory of ideology ( especially Althusser ) and on French structuralism and semiotics ( Barthes , Levi-Strauss ) . |
| 4 | Such were the treasures to be seen when Philip Miller arrived at Oud-Poelgeest in 1727 and he reported on many rare shrubs and gathered seeds from curious plants . |
| 5 | Quinn built on this basic theme in a detailed case study ( 1980 ) of nine large companies , most with headquarters in the United States , but including also a British company and a Swedish company . |
| 6 | Outline the evidence that some sort of late heavy bombardment occurred on all terrestrial planets . |
| 7 | He believed on this sad day that feeling of reconciliation was a reason for hope . |
| 8 | just got into Wales and we camped on that flat land and then we went up the riv , oh we 've got it on the |
| 9 | Also , have you forgotten the lucrative deal which I again masterminded on that commercial property north of the Thames ? ’ |
| 10 | Or they would mention the role Bell 's XS–1 played on that historic day in October , 1947 when the ‘ sound barrier ’ was finally conquered . |
| 11 | ‘ And although all the travelling was tiresome , I played on some lovely grounds and got to visit many interesting places . |
| 12 | While they often helped me to gain a perspective on , and strength for , what I was doing , the one I played on this particular night enhanced my self-pity . |
| 13 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 14 | Cecil 's colt 's success at the highest level came on this very course in last season 's Racing Post Trophy . |
| 15 | In a remnant of old forest I came on some grazing deer and quickly dropped to ground and crawled in under a small bank where I was able to stay out of sight , out of smell , and enjoy a very good look at the herd . |
| 16 | They knocked , gained entrance and offered the lady a large amount of money if s-he would abide by certain conditions and would never breathe a word of anything that happened on that fateful night . |
| 17 | We happened on some good 'uns , and we happened on some sort of funny ones when we goo round . |
| 18 | Wrath turned on that Prime Minister when it was realised that he was not right , just as it will turn on the present Prime Minister . |
| 19 | Even in an October sun one can get quickly dehydrated on these exposed slopes . |
| 20 | That was a change from the senators and congressmen and captains of industry , whom she 'd been seducing since she arrived on these golden shores . |
| 21 | The newspapers also commented on this particular horror . |
| 22 | Haggis p15/ The famed dish of Scotland , made from sheep 's intestines and served on many traditional feast days . |
| 23 | But even as he did so , he felt that the sentence , having been written , still existed on some other page . |
| 24 | Thus , although material tailored to specific professional roles was delivered in only 16 per cent of courses , it accounted for well over a quarter of all the teacher-days devoted to primary INSET , a proportion of time exactly equal to that spent on all individual areas of the curriculum together . |
| 25 | When the former ruling order of Ethiopia defined itself as Amhara , it thus imposed on all other Ethiopians non-Amharaness . |
| 26 | Nothing was said there which relied on any special characteristic of pain . |
| 27 | In any case , we embarked on this definitional enterprise with the warning that satisfactory definitions of academic fields are rarely available , and the purpose was simply to sketch the sorts of concerns , and the sorts of boundary issues , with which pragmaticists are implicitly concerned . |
| 28 | Oxford 's 21-year-old winger Joey Beauchamp embarked on several superb runs down the right but Oxford , missing the suspended John Durnin , had no-one to apply the finishing touch . |
| 29 | EXHAUSTION was etched on Premier John Major 's face last night as he embarked on another hectic round of talks after a gruelling 13-hour journey to North America . |
| 30 | Memories of the 16-cylinder engine disaster must have faded at BRM by the mid '60s when the company embarked on another ambitious project . |