Example sentences of "[vb past] on this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 2 | Medics in particular capitalized on this state of affairs , mobilizing the results of scientific research as part of their broader push for increased representation with the state . |
| 3 | Worsley capitalized on this opportunity by making the saltpetre project the centre-piece of a programme for revitalization of the British economy and the development of an integrated manufacturing and trading system embracing an expanding colonial empire . |
| 4 | Physiologists capitalized on this instrumentation to demonstrate that the electrical activity of the brain and its nerve cells was a function of what the individual was doing , or not doing , or how sensory receptors were stimulated . |
| 5 | ‘ So the folk of the village capitalized on this gift from the gods , that had come to them in their darkest hour . |
| 6 | It has successfully developed and operated a port at Sheerness in Kent and drew on this experience in deciding to develop a commercial port in the easternmost portion of the old dockyard . |
| 7 | We drew on this analysis to explain the performances of HWIM and HARPY . |
| 8 | Lt Col W Yolland reported on this request to the Board of Trade , for which he was an Inspector of Railways , on 25th December 1865 . |
| 9 | Can I ask you Mr we we reported on this programme yesterday morning that an official from the Inspectorate of Pollution had expressed worries that the scheme could cause more pollution . |
| 10 | My phone number is not the one listed on this article as I may have moved to a new address by the time you read this . |
| 11 | The only wheel I found on this trip is still very much in business , grinding corn on two pairs of stones . |
| 12 | She concentrated on this problem so that she did not have to imagine the people themselves . |
| 13 | It seemed on this occasion she had met her match . |
| 14 | We came on this trip to take back children . |
| 15 | So you knew how to carry out a literature search before you came on this course ? |
| 16 | I believe especially I never came on this campaign until after I went to see Arafat . |
| 17 | They went a little while ago , apart from that they never came on this end |
| 18 | The Wilson Committee itself summarised the evidence it received on this issue as follows : |
| 19 | These are just a few of the very many amusing , illuminating and thoughtful letters we received on this subject . |
| 20 | But superimposed on this background were brief ‘ bursts ’ of high-frequency activity , in which whole ensembles of cells were firing in some sort of rhythmic synchrony ( Figure 10.10 ) . |
| 21 | Well you say it should open it very quickly , what happened on this occasion ? |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not saying it happened on this occasion , but it is not unknown for a private company to take a loss on government contracts to get a foot in the door . ’ |
| 23 | Er the er the breeders ' evening now what happened on this breeders ' evening is that the they run the raffle then give us our expenses out of it so that eleven pound eighty is the is the part of the raffle proceeds which we need to , to e to er for our expenses , you 'll see on the other side erm that we spent that eleven eighty , six eighty for er refreshments and five pound for the rent . |
| 24 | As a matter of fact that is exactly what happened on this planet , and we ourselves are among the most recent , if not the strangest and most wonderful , of those consequences . |
| 25 | Programmes likely to produce such action ought , rather , to be spotted within the BBC in advance and either adjusted suitably or else supported by the Governors in such a way that the politicians would be quietly told , in effect , that if they wished to object they risked on this occasion a larger row than they might want . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | The district officer in India acted on this responsibility every time he filed a report . |
| 28 | Lord acted on this suggestion , and took out a lease on a seven-acre field on the Portman estate in Marylebone , later Dorset Square . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But for some reason she forgot on this occasion and I did not stop to remind her . |