Example sentences of "[vb past] on [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cries rose on all sides of her as she filled the dishes , but she worked on steadily oblivious , like some eccentric female St Francis , brooding a little about the image seen in the vicarage garden , which , although it had turned out to be only an old cloth flung over a tree stump , was an indication of the way things might go . |
| 2 | To instruct any solicitorappointed on all matters relevant to the child 's interests , including the possibilities for appeal , unless the child wishes to give conflicting instructions and has sufficient understanding to do so . |
| 3 | Depreciation should be ( a ) calculated on the same basis as in the audited accounts for the year to 31 December , 1989 , and ( b ) charged on all assets on a monthly basis , with no upward revaluation of assets in the year and with due regard being paid to the carrying value of any assets and the length of the asset 's expected useful economic life to the Business , having due regard to the incidence of obsolescence and future requirements of the Business . |
| 4 | Athelstan cursed in some of the language Cranston used on such occasions . |
| 5 | Post-war architects , amongst whom Frederick Gibberd was soon prominent , popularized a style which drew on many influences . |
| 6 | We drew on these aspects in developing our recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study . |
| 7 | This could be demonstrated explicitly or via an audit report which was exception-based , i.e. it reported on any instances where the law was contravened . |
| 8 | Er , we built on those sectors , during the er , past year with the initial uncertainty on the B Sky B situation er , we have been managing erm , our way through the recession , you 've heard from Frank er , about the er , immediate short term measures we 've taken . |
| 9 | I soon felt hungry and thirsty , and my first food was fruit which I found on some trees near a river . |
| 10 | I was also gratified by the immense good will and friendship towards Britain which I encountered on all sides . |
| 11 | U K market tried on several occasions to break through and remain above the two thousand level today , but confidence remains low and the Footsie one hundred index was unable to find support . |
| 12 | He believed on those grounds that he had a legal right to the tyres . |
| 13 | It was interesting to compare the performance of my tourer bike and the mountain bikes we hired on these roads . |
| 14 | They appealed on several grounds , but particularly that ‘ an agreement by two or more persons to insert advertisements in a magazine for the purpose of homosexual acts taking place between consenting adult males in private did not constitute an offence ’ . |
| 15 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 16 | After cutting out other drier , sun-lightened ends , we painted on some strands of High Lift Blonde Tint . |
| 17 | Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college . |
| 18 | Once again , the proposal was not original , having twice been considered by the Advisory Council on the Treatment of Offenders in the 1950s , but rejected on both occasions . |
| 19 | Beginning with scale-derived thirds and sixths , the first nine examples show some fingerings extracted from the scale of A major and played on all string-sets . |
| 20 | On Wednesdays or Saturdays you got two hours ( other days it was only thirty minutes ) so obviously everyone came on those days . |
| 21 | This happened on several occasions , with the kisses and hugs becoming longer and more passionate as time went on . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 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 | Wilcox turned on some lights above the board table on the other side of the room . |
| 25 | She tried the back door and found it open , and going in she turned on some lights and made herself a cup of coffee . |
| 26 | Western philosophers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who speculated on these matters usually emphasized two criteria : |
| 27 | When Connor threw on some clothes and left the Watermen at a run , in search of a doctor , he left his mother to hold Ruth 's hand and try to comfort her . |
| 28 | With his television news background and now intimate knowledge of Middle East drugs trafficking , Coleman helped Ross and Silverman prepare what was generally considered to be as balanced and authoritative a survey of narco-terrorism as the media had ever presented to the American public , a contribution which they both generously acknowledged on several occasions afterwards and which subsequently led to Coleman 's appearance on NBC News after the Flight 103 disaster , although neither of them were aware then or before of his DIA/NARCOG affiliations . |
| 29 | Leave is not required and notice of appeal must be filed and served on all parties within four weeks of the date on which the order was made . |
| 30 | This tome concentrated on the operational side of the type 's history , not just during World War Two , where the aircraft was undoubtedly the best long range fighting aircraft that served on all sides of the war , but through all the other conflicts in which the P-51 participated . |