Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little evidence to support a view that Isabella or Mortimer embarked on invasion , conquest and dethronement under the influence , or by the counsel , of any bishop . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There was a glass-fronted mahogany cupboard where Ellen insisted on keeping Bernard 's family photographs , which she had found at the bottom of a suitcase . |
| 4 | Coopers & Lybrand worked on the first study in conjunction with Samuel Montagu , the merchant bank which is handling the sale on behalf of the Government . |
| 5 | He stopped where Tallis stood on the wall . |
| 6 | where neon flickered on sludge . |
| 7 | I have the Smith & Wesson trained on the doorway ready to blast the first guy to show . |
| 8 | On August 6th 1991 , 11 winners from W & V arrived on a dull drizzly morning at Mallory Park , Leicestershire . |
| 9 | After Hassan 's departure they had escorted an abnormally subdued and submissive Dora to her room , where Iris insisted on putting her through a series of noisy deep-breathing exercises , ‘ to calm her down ’ , and then prepared a cup of herbal tea , ‘ to make her sleep ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ faultless ’ manager of the Adelphi Hotel , Liverpool , ( opened 1826 ) , where CD stayed on the eve of his departure for America in 1842 . |
| 11 | Each succeeding system or style drew on the techniques of preceding systems or styles , and all are of interest to the local historian . |
| 12 | Then , gripping it , he passed through the rustle of the reed jalousie hanging in the doorway into the small interior , where Sycorax lay on her side , collapsed on the beaten earth like a child 's poppet made from plaited grass , with Ariel on her haunches beside her , head sunk on her knees , a fan fallen to the ground beside her . |
| 13 | Where invoices recorded on the statement have not been received or have been mislaid , copies will be required from the supplier . |
| 14 | To savour real Apfelstrudel or Sachertorte served on a silver tray by a waistcoated white-aproned waiter is to taste style itself . |
| 15 | We have provided in the Finance Bill that where property held on discretionary trust were settled before 26th March 1974 a different — and almost invariably more generous — basis of charge will apply . |
| 16 | Where Mellors frolicked on dream freebie |
| 17 | ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL LAY ON THE SMILES |
| 18 | His widow , Betty , told Esquire that MacDonald worked on the team for only a year before he was fired by Hill . |
| 19 | And I certainly appreciated the faceful that Caduta laid on me . |
| 20 | and you know that Jim recorded on one of his cassettes some programmes for Martin |
| 21 | On Saturdays , after dinner , concerts of classical music were so popular that artists sat on the floor or perched on tables to listen . |
| 22 | He was quite happy to be Marcus 's dog , but it was possible that Marcus relied on his assuming some more dignified role . |
| 23 | It is significant that Kerschensteiner insisted on the practical and the theoretical being part of the same syllabus , with the former leading on to an appreciation of the latter : it meant that ‘ civic virtues ’ had to be practised in order for them to become meaningful . |
| 24 | Peter , who resented the air of omniscience that Richard assumed on matters ecclesiastical , stared out of the window . |
| 25 | Banknote paper was then prepared with a colouring agent made from cobalt , silex , salt and potash : if you set light to a bundle of money , the cinder would take on the extraordinary tint that Musgrave saw on the Caen dockside . |
| 26 | In the last a frontal foot shows that Hermes stood on the right above the head of the emerging monster , like Athena in fig. 121 ; and the placing of the hero is very similar though the movement ( straight across the field as in the other ) is pulling instead of pushing . |
| 27 | It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years , surviving on subsistence farming . |
| 28 | This is because when the tetrads that Michell found on the one-inch map are investigated on a 6-inch sheet , they become distressingly ‘ crooked ’ . |
| 29 | This is an , a product of evolution , admittedly Freud uses a Lamarckian scenario to explain how it got there , but the fact is that Freud insisted on it . |
| 30 | The two examples that Picasso owned on the other hand could certainly be called primitive , both in conception and execution . |