Example sentences of "that [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Francis of Assisi maintains an astonishingly high position of regard in the hearts of many Christians who would comfortably condemn Rose of Lima , despite the fact that as well as chatting to wolves and birds , his own asceticism , and that laid on his followers , was ferocious and absolute . |
| 2 | An error that arose on the consolidation of the capital gains legislation into TCGA 1992 will be corrected in next year 's Finance Bill . |
| 3 | How many items were there that centred on curriculum content and administration matters and how many focussed on individuals ? |
| 4 | Certainly after that incident and all the erm the very overly dramatic publicity that centred on the flats . |
| 5 | In the years that followed , the factional conflicts that centred on Louis 's court were coolly observed by Hincmar , the future archbishop , then a young monk at St-Denis , close therefore to Abbot Hilduin , Louis 's archchaplain . |
| 6 | A monologue that centred on hunt balls , riding to hounds , polo and the disgraceful decline of the manners of Guards officers were hardly subjects about which they were often invited to give an opinion . |
| 7 | The industry lost first its export markets and then its domestic market to the Japanese because it was totally unprepared for the challenge from companies that operated on a truly international basis . |
| 8 | Fiegehen and Reddaway concluded : ‘ it is clear that , in total , any disincentive effects that operated on senior managers had a minimal impact on the activities of British industry ’ . |
| 9 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 10 | And the young man said it was a buffalo that lived on his farm . |
| 11 | The ducks that lived on the island in that lake did n't restrict their activities to the park . |
| 12 | She came from a family that lived on North Stainmore , where my father was raised , and she had striking looks . |
| 13 | And it turned out that there was a big goblin that lived on this island and he just ate fairies . |
| 14 | Him that lived on caravan site ? |
| 15 | As er Chairman of the last countryside forum that met on the twenty ninth of April ninety three , it 's the week before the County Council elections . |
| 16 | The hens that roosted on the rafters would scavenge as usual along the shore , and hunt for dropped oats in the straw and bracken Luch had been gathering from the moor all summer . |
| 17 | And she was the first that got on horseback , and with some fifty that were with her , did some hurt to the company of the Cid ; but in fine they slew her , and her people fled to the camp . |
| 18 | No , it was n't this that got on his nerves , but the monotony of his surrounding , the long , long road through the camp , the huts going off here and there , the airfield dotted with little planes , looking like toys , the new hall that was used for entertainments , pictures and the church services , standing out like a sore thumb . |
| 19 | This list of requirements might well succeed in eliminating all our ideas ; in practice we would be satisfied if two or three of these demands were catered for but very unhappy with a unit that failed on all nine aspects . |
| 20 | There was something of kinship about her that registered on a purely instinctive level , and in a way that the thing could not interpret . |
| 21 | She moved to switch out the light , forgetting that it was not her lamp that glowed on the bedside table , but he caught her arm , oh-so-very-gently , this time . |
| 22 | The predators that preyed on the giants were even more spectacular , and by now the name of Tyrannosaurus is so well-known that it seems to be one of the first tongue-twisters mastered by small children . |
| 23 | As a consequence the dinosaurs that preyed on them must also have grown bigger . |
| 24 | The presence of all these species also meant that I had a good chance of spotting the birds that preyed on them . |
| 25 | They were like beacons to those that preyed on them . |
| 26 | At any given time , the current herbivores tended to have smaller brains than the contemporary carnivores that preyed on them . |
| 27 | And the other one that caught on second was which says something does n't it ? |
| 28 | Peony looked suitably chastened , but there was a glint in her eye that told Peggy there was plenty more she could say , and would say , if it were n't for the fact that she adored the Vicar with a passion that bordered on the obsessive . |
| 29 | When he least needed a vote of no confidence , Leighton was sensationally dropped from Manchester United 's 1990 Cup Final replay team and punished for a slump in form during a suspect season in front of a United defence that bordered on the arthritic . |
| 30 | Although 1988 was characterised by a freer , more open intellectual atmosphere , it was clear that the Party still held ultimate authority and would not tolerate criticism that bordered on political dissent . |