Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And up until now , it has pumped a high level of turnover back into just such research and development — out of £820,000 sales for the fiscal year ending March 1992 , some £213,000 went on this activity , while for the year ending March 1993 , the figure was more like £414,000 , out of total revenues of only £922,000 . |
| 3 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 4 | The day after their sit-in , some dazibao appeared on another Beijing campus , complaining about poor security . |
| 5 | ‘ A terrible cannonading began on both sides , accompanied with a dreadful discharge of musquetry ’ … |
| 6 | If the returns of all securities lay on this line there would be no opportunities for profitable arbitrage . |
| 7 | With the re-establishment of stable kingship in Kent and among the West Saxons under Wihtred and Ine respectively and the confinement of Mercian power , a period of relatively peaceful consolidation followed which lasted for a quarter of a century during which time kings in southern England embarked on that redefinition of their realms which is embodied in the extant laws of Wihtred and Ine . |
| 8 | Ten Americans and one Englishman sat on either side of a long gleaming wooden table . |
| 9 | A long , thin brunette sat on another bean-bag very close to her , staring down at a focus somewhere near the edge of the blonde 's left thigh . |
| 10 | There , identical buildings stood on each side of the track . |
| 11 | And of course it is open to them to take a contrary view to any conclusion reached on any matter by the panel . |
| 12 | In fact , whereas the parallel protestant movement of evangelical revival was for all people , and the issue tended to be decisive , catholic spirituality diverged on both points . |
| 13 | When in 1916 , the Metropolitan Police insisted on all trams being fitted with side lamps , the remainder of the Croydon fleet had them fixed in small wooden boxes under the edge of the canopy . |
| 14 | In 1982 , an important new book appeared on this subject , Constantine versus Christ , by Alistair Kee , senior lecturer in Religious Studies , University of Glasgow . |
| 15 | 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 . |