Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heavy rain had subsided during the morning , but the pavements were still wet underfoot and a fine haze of moisture hung on the wintry air . |
| 2 | Leave a crust of blood hanging on the nails |
| 3 | A rectangle of cardboard hung on the door announcing that the shop was due to open at nine o'clock . |
| 4 | ( Thus Auer complains of Gumperz that " sometimes he makes strong claims about the effect of a given type or instance of code switching on the subsequent development of the sequence , which are based on informants ' reports , but fails to reproduce this subsequent passage " ( Auer 1984b : 106 , fn. 10 ) . ) |
| 5 | Tristan was not in the sitting room but a haze of smoke hung on the air and a reek like a garden bonfire prickled in my nostrils . |
| 6 | Jesus had come to Jerusalem , the capital of Judaism to take on the religious authorities and at this point in time in this Gospel it looks like he 's lost , gon na be dead in a couple of days . |
| 7 | For example — Panorama on Robert Maxwell was the only piece of journalism to take on the subject — and at considerable risk . |
| 8 | In the light of such feelings , the denial of the existence of class takes on the force of a moral imperative , rather than a statement of fact . |
| 9 | In many cases it obviously would be and if there was any element of duress brought on the other contracting party under the modern development of this branch of the law the proposed breaker of the contract would not benefit . |
| 10 | At the same time , the proportion of freight carried on the railways between 1980 and 1990 dropped from 9% to 7% , while the proportion using road transport rose to 83% . |