Example sentences of "[vb past] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It focussed on a number of different client groups and 28 projects set out to move about 900 people from hospital settings to community settings . |
| 2 | Many of these are arranged through a voluntary organisation called Crossroads ( address on page 143 ) which takes its name from the television series because of the attention it focussed on the needs of disabled people . |
| 3 | The big man beat on the door and shouted in the high nasal tone of the Caucasus , slammed his fist into the woodwork , demanded attention . |
| 4 | She beat on the tree with her fists , she threw her arms as far round the tree as they would reach and then , despite the relentless rain , the saturated ground and the penetrating cold , she fell on her knees at its foot , unable to muster the will to walk on . |
| 5 | The sun shone equally on them both : their shadows , enormous and jagged , covered the ground between the table and the eating-house , and waves of heat beat on the tonsures of the Alban priests . |
| 6 | Being a bit of a Pink Floyd and a club scene fan , I was joyous to hear a sample of the Floyd 's ‘ Shine On You Crazy Diamond ’ with a Soul II Soul beat on the radio . |
| 7 | It was also very hot , for the drawing room faced due south and the hot sun beat on the glass . |
| 8 | This view is confirmed , not only by the evidence of [ Mr. Bunn ] himself , namely that the wife 's signature on the Monday was a formality , but also the evidence accepted by the judge of what transpired on the Monday , namely , that there was no discussion between [ a bank clerk ] , the husband and the wife , who was merely presented the document for her signature . |
| 9 | A development of Banfield 's explanation is provided by Johan Galtung on the basis of his own research in a similar environment . |
| 10 | This geological evidence raises the question whether any plants survived the entire last glacial stage ( ca. 125,000–13,500 B.P. ) in the Outer Hebrides , as Heslop Harrison ( 1948b , 1953 ) and Dahl ( 1954 , 1955 ) proposed on the basis of present-day distribution patterns . |
| 11 | The two had met up again when Packford helped on the Wapping Post . |
| 12 | One and six it cost on the ferry |
| 13 | His fingers opened , the knife bounced on the trampoline webbing and fell through into the sea . |
| 14 | Melanie had tried to fill the bath from it only once and then it had exploded with such ferocity that the toothbrushes leapt and quivered in the rack and Uncle Philip 's toothglass had taken a suicide jump from the shelf and bounced on the floor , fortunately without breaking . |
| 15 | Philip jumped as a tiny stone bounced on the concrete and hit the door . |
| 16 | It bounced on the carpet , shedding chunks of red-hot ash . |
| 17 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 18 | Suppliers thank Dow Corning Europe for telling them how they rated on the grid . ’ |
| 19 | Very often I dined on a banana split , which was enormous : it consisted of a whole banana , three scoops of ice cream , syrup and whipped cream and only cost 25 cents ; we also lived on delicatessen sandwiches and salads and were so excited with the automats where we put our money in and out popped coffee . |
| 20 | That spring the slow march of the Situationists through the London of the decade surfaced on the cover of It26 , with a Situationist poster . |
| 21 | He also made it clear that he was against black boycotts organized around the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico , at which Thommie Smith and John Carlos demonstrated on the victory rostrum with a gloved black power salute . |
| 22 | The voice rose on a wave of passion . |
| 23 | Her voice rose on a note of hysteria . |
| 24 | Her voice rose on a note that betrayed how near she was to breaking-point . |
| 25 | An inviting smell of liquor rose on the steam . |
| 26 | The curtain rose on The Duke and The Shopgirl . |
| 27 | As he stepped forward the chocolate hackles rose on the cat , its mouth drawn back in a snarl . |
| 28 | Every time Grace rose on the swell , she was aware of the anchor chain tightening to its limit . |
| 29 | Several young boys were racing each other across the open expanse , leaping and shouting , and from the abbey itself the voices of monks chanting the noon office rose on the air . |
| 30 | Financial services rose on the back of increased consumer spending on cars , according to the group , and was ‘ almost buoyant ’ in the half year although it has dropped back since September . |