Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | B. When trade started , people walked or rode on horseback or in waggons to those villages which were chosen to have weekly markets . |
| 2 | Or got on the same bus . |
| 3 | Additionally , carried away by enthusiasm that ought not to affect the judgement of experienced lawyers , they advised him , or agreed on his urging ( I do not know which ) , that he should issue writs for libel , which he did , with the disastrous effect that he actually accepted some damages from one publication before he was compelled to reveal the falsity of his assertions . |
| 4 | While each family possessed a few reindeer for harnessing to sledges , they had no herds , and depended entirely upon hunting wild deer , which they followed or waylaid on their seasonal migrations . |
| 5 | stood round in groups or knelt on half-bald knees |
| 6 | With few exceptions , labor violence was the result of isolated and usually unplanned acts on a picket line , or occurred on a prohibited parade or demonstration protesting employer obduracy or police brutality . |
| 7 | Random sampling means that a batch is accepted or rejected on the basis of the number of rejects found after taking a random sample from the batch . |
| 8 | All contributions should be framed or mounted on board and deposited with Jill Morgan at the Rochdale Art Gallery from Saturday 12 October 1991 . |
| 9 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 10 | People mostly walked or came on bicycles . |
| 11 | She sat or perched on an upright chair smiling like an angel just dropped from the skies . |
| 12 | By another of the technical innovations or borrowings which mark the art of this time , terracotta figurines and heads are no longer generally made freely by hand or turned on the wheel but pressed into moulds . |
| 13 | When Ken was in a bad mood or turned on people who regarded themselves as close friends , it was mostly a reaction to the way he saw himself — a failure to be what he wanted to be most . |
| 14 | Every time you looked at a magazine or newspaper , or turned on the television , there was the world of the young as it was today . |
| 15 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 16 | In the shower cubicle , water hissed on ceramic tile or clattered on the green plastic curtain , according to the gyrations of the nude body within . |
| 17 | The dock is provided with end gates which may be opened and closed for admission and egress of the vessel by a rising and falling sliding or pivotal motion in a vertical plane or swung on hinges as ordinary lock gates , suitable grooves or chambers being provided for the gates to work in a suitable means of making a water-tight closure being provided . |
| 18 | Or remarked on it in your presence ? ’ |
| 19 | And if I do read a paper it wo n't be for for very long because all the stuff it 's got in it I 've seen it one telly or heard on the radio . |
| 20 | Having given away all her money in Rome , she begged her food , or existed on charitable donations . |
| 21 | You must have claimed dole for eight weeks or served on the Youth Training Scheme or be able to produce formal notice of redundancy . |
| 22 | They can dispense with the claim that science must start with unbiased and unprejudiced observation by making a distinction between the way a theory is first thought of or discovered on the one hand , and the way in which it is justified or its merits assessed on the other . |
| 23 | ‘ Vechey was drugged or knocked on the head , the corpse being strung up for others to find . ’ |
| 24 | Both parties have invited this court to proceed on the basis that the validity of the appointment is not and can not be disputed or decided on this application . |
| 25 | Jared Tunstall , who manipulated billions of dollars , made and broke men at will , whose power was legendary , had never managed in a clash of wills with the daughter he adored to overcome her , once she had made her mind up , or decided on a course of action . |
| 26 | Members of several gangs , from earliest teens to twenties , crowded the cracked plastic benches in the reception vestibule or squatted on the floor , awaiting processing , a slow operation . |
| 27 | In his view , the court could intervene only if the minister ( a ) failed or refused to apply his mind to or to consider the question whether to refer a complaint to the committee or ( b ) misinterpreted the law or proceeded on an erroneous view of the law or ( c ) based his decision on some wholly extraneous consideration or ( d ) failed to have regard to matters which he should have taken into account . |
| 28 | … if the expert added up his figures wrongly ; or took something into account which he ought not to have taken into account , or conversely : or interpreted the agreement wrongly : or proceeded on some erroneous principle . |
| 29 | I I think these are fellows that were either killed or died on active service . |
| 30 | The only thing you had to watch out was that she did n't start to stagger and put one of them feet down on you a bit sharp , or fell on you as she were a-swaying about with her jink-back . |