Example sentences of "[vb past] on these [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We drew on these aspects in developing our recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study .
2 It was interesting to compare the performance of my tourer bike and the mountain bikes we hired on these roads .
3 anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me
4 A further echo of the Koln Ju88 strike reverberated the following evening when most of the crew were out in Cambridge celebrating survival and , as it happened on these occasions , most crews had their own favourite watering places .
5 Western philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who speculated on these matters usually emphasized two criteria :
6 Klein argues that the remarkable political consensus that existed on these principles in 1948 was accompanied by an even more profound consensus about the benefits of medicine and what it could achieve .
7 The Romans also followed on these lines but adapted the construction to suit their more complex needs .
8 Other commentators also remarked on these changes .
9 As with Brian , and I hope myself , Terry worked on these areas to try and even off the rough edges .
10 Bate and Henry Kater [ q.v. ] worked on these models in 1825–6 , and subsequently Bate supplied hundreds of sets of standards to government and municipal offices throughout the United Kingdom and overseas .
11 Ad we tied on these bunches on the cross .
12 I said it 's about time somebody started on these kids I mean the been a television programme this morning about people living in their homes afraid of going out because they 're getting molested and and robbed , and one thing and another !
13 I noticed that over the four days Brian expanded on these subjects .
14 Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said .
15 Lady Selvedge then rose and made her little speech — the one she always made on these occasions , for the ‘ cause ’ , whether Church , Conservative Party or District Nursing Association , was always a good one and it was safe to urge her hearers to spend just a little more than they thought they could afford , however relative the amount might be .
16 As the week went on these tensions disappeared and there was a wonderful sense of relaxation and peace .
17 As time went on these feelings wore off .
18 ‘ He went on these trips alone ? ’
19 He checked himself just in time , went down flat on his stomach , peering through the tough grass that grew on these dunes .
20 20 But while he thought on these things , behold , the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream , saying , Joseph , thou son of David , fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife : for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost .
21 Right now he was groping Joanna who had taken her top off , as she always did on these occasions .
22 Like his predecessors , Philip VI used the obligations of liege homage , and the threat of confiscation of the duchy if Edward defaulted on these obligations , as a means of putting pressure on the English king when his policies appeared to threaten French interests .
23 He always tries to make it put on these accents .
24 ‘ I do n't trust the labels Berdichev put on these projects .
25 And we had on these shoes you know .
26 I pondered on these things and felt that it was not good …
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