Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 2 | Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe . |
| 3 | Her car was ploughed into by 19-year-old Howard Sloane , whose Seat Ibiza skidded on a corner , said prosecutor Derek Halbert . |
| 4 | God knows what they would make of Georgina when Victoria passed on an estimate of her age . |
| 5 | But the alliance with Athens must have been renewed before the beginning of the Peloponnesian War when Thessalians fought on the Athenian side again ( Thuc. ii.22 ) . |
| 6 | As the hippies had all but gone the police and the RSPCA pounced on a lorry , inside was a horse which had been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 7 | The contrast was stark : the English system was founded on a social interaction , with knowledge as the vehicle of communication ; the German system was founded on a personal interaction with knowledge , and any human interaction rode on the back of that experience . |
| 8 | Wigeon grazed on the far shore . |
| 9 | Large trees grew from the interstices of the stone and sheep brouzed on the edge of every precipice . |
| 10 | Denis Irwin chipped a nice ball to Steve Staunton on the left wing and Aldridge got on the end of a fiercely-driven centre . |
| 11 | Disputes under them are to be referred to arbitration , where contracts made on a particular exchange are in issue , and otherwise to the English courts . |
| 12 | Suddenly , it seemed , the war was over at last , and Churchill announced on the wireless that 8 May would be Victory in Europe Day . |
| 13 | DARLINGTON 'S Mayor Rita Fishwick and Tory councillor Paul Geldart passed on the thanks of the Scottish Sports Association for the Disabled to the town 's Dolphin Centre yesterday . |
| 14 | Off I go ; just an old sack chucked on the horse 's back , no saddle or anything . |
| 15 | Oldham 's superiority was not confirmed until the 80th minute when Sharp completed his first treble since his summer move from Everton : Chamberlain blocked Ritchie 's effort , and the Scot pounced on the rebound . |
| 16 | Luce choked on a retort . |
| 17 | Labourers and more poorly paid seamen lived on the banksides and in the ‘ low street ’ in single-room tenements in industrial and pre-industrial slums . |
| 18 | United showed more appetite for the game and should have gone in front after nine minutes when Ferguson got on the end of Clark 's free-kick . |
| 19 | Without warning , 602 and the Edinburgh Squadron pounced on the Germans , screaming down out of the sun and spraying the marauders with concentrated machine gun fire . |
| 20 | Jim lived on the edge between life and death , he straddled the fence , and his balls hurt . |
| 21 | Have Severn Trent got on the bandwagon yet , for tidying up the water in Brussels . |
| 22 | The hair rose on the back of the boy 's neck . |
| 23 | Tsu Ma drew on the cheroot again , then looked up , meeting his eyes . |
| 24 | So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon , and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony . |
| 25 | An aircraft with nine people on board crashed on the Pacific island of Espiritu Santo , Vanuatu , on July 29 , killing all passengers . |
| 26 | Sophie concentrated on the sweetness of the apple and by the time she had gathered drops of juice along her tongue , Lori was below her , lying on the turf and crying because she had fallen in the near-dark . |
| 27 | Relieved that she had not betrayed her real feelings , Sophie concentrated on the morning surgery , which , however , was not very busy . |
| 28 | On an SE/30 — a 68030 machine with a maths coprocessor — myoglobin ( 2658 atoms ) approached the upper limit for interactive manipulation and a monochrome drawing on the screen required about 20 sec ( wireframe ) , 1–3/4 min ( ball and stick ) and three min ( shaded space-filling ) ; the times tripled on a smaller SE system . |
| 29 | White House chief of staff John Sununu objected on the grounds that a reduction in gas emissions would freeze US economic growth . |
| 30 | Jezrael stopped on the top step , yawning and stretching , one hand flung up to shield her face against the cold hard radiance . |