Example sentences of "[vb pp] with [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben saw the anger mixed with sadness on his father 's face . |
| 2 | Li Shai Tung stood before him , staring into his face , a faint smile of sadness mixed with satisfaction on his lips . |
| 3 | The greater understanding of the behaviour of commuters and the long term trends are being synthesised with information on the policies of transport operators and central and local government so that the influence of policy , such as that in the 1980 Transport Act , on the long-term trends can be better understood . |
| 4 | Another example of the rich and regal possibilities which religion offered Cnut is provided by a visit which he made to Glastonbury on 30 November of a year which may have been 1032 , when William of Malmesbury says that he laid a cloak decorated with peacocks on the tomb of Edmund Ironside . |
| 5 | The sight of , say , a field of corn interspersed with poppies on a sunny day did n't move me ; the spectacle of a woman who had slipped and fallen in the street did n't move me — either to sympathy or to ridicule . |
| 6 | Even written patterns consist of figures relating to stitches and rows , interspersed with instructions on what to do with these and the knitting methods involved . |
| 7 | 1.10:USEFUL Flat handicappers Barford Lad , Beauchamp Express and Busted Rock all shaped with promise on their debuts . |
| 8 | For instance , a computer can search he words of titles and print out all items containing the relevant key terms , but if an astronomer asks for anything to do with black holes , he may find himself presented with material on the Black Hole of Calcutta , or titles in which the two words appear separately and accidentally , unless the search procedure is more tightly controlled . |
| 9 | The designer is thus presented with information on the type of " failure " , its value , and where it occurred during the mechanism event . |
| 10 | Among the various choices available to electors in different countries are the following : they may vote for one candidate , or a specified number of candidates , or for as many candidates as there are members to be elected ; they may cumulate two votes on one candidate ; they may cast votes on more than one list ; presented with lists on which the parties have arranged the candidates in an order of preference they can change that order . |
| 11 | Robert Gould expressed his frustration at the tactics being used by parents at two of the schools threatened with closure on the south side of the city . |
| 12 | Mr Davidson , the Labour MP for Govan who was until recently Strathclyde 's education chairman , has been supporting the ballot tactic employed by parents of St Gerard 's , one of the three RC secondaries threatened with closure on the city 's south side . |
| 13 | Federal investigators concluded that the thieves ( they were caught in the act ) had been shot with revolvers on the order of a local police captain who then , with the help of a town official , instigated the lynching to mask the shooting . |
| 14 | Anything written with biro on cheap paper will quickly rot away creating yet more work for the conservators . |
| 15 | I had abdominal wind and suffered with thrush on and off . |
| 16 | In some less ambitious plans , the villa started as a simpler rectangular building but would sometimes be expanded with wings on either side as the family became more and more prosperous , or the property was sold to a richer owner . |
| 17 | This detailed survey is peppered with information on how the faunas came to be collected — often by amateurs . |
| 18 | At Bad Honeff the tomb of Konrad Adenauer , West Germany 's first post-war Chancellor , was daubed with swastikas on Oct. 5 . |
| 19 | There are great difficulties about this notion , however crudely one expresses it , and however firm the intuition that it is true , and they come from well-known considerations to do with unconscious and sub-conscious aspects of the mind , as well as from the more rococo possibilities of more than one conscious individual within a single body , which has recently been connected with research on the status and relationship of the two hemispheres of the brain ( cf. |
| 20 | I would find the same difficulty in putting down words for a dragonfly above a summer pond or a new spider 's web hung with dew on a spring hedgerow . |
| 21 | For example , when words which should have stress on the first syllable were said with stress on the second syllable , they were misinterpreted . |
| 22 | Even in the farmyard , which was snugly sheltered with buildings on three sides , the snow lay deeply . |
| 23 | The idea of basing decisions on generalisations about the elderly rather than on the needs of individual elderly patients has also met with criticism on purely ethical grounds . |
| 24 | Representatives of all parties subsequently met with Kohl on Sept. 27 but rejected CDU proposals to change the Constitution to reduce the numbers of people seeking asylum . |
| 25 | Mr Chree is proposing that the route be safeguarded from any further developments and that access arrangements be made with landowners on sections of the route where it is not possible to assert the ancient highway as a public right of way . |
| 26 | His battledress was soaked with blood on one side , his face was a ghastly grey colour with the mouth hanging open , his head was turned to one side with the eyes closed . |
| 27 | He showed her old pictures , drawn with pigments on hide , and she recognized scenes from her life . |
| 28 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will indicate the nature and range of discussions he has had with OFTEL on the length of time customers have had to wait to have their telephones repaired ; what changes in waiting time there have been in the last seven years ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 29 | In the town of Diyarbakir around 5,000 protestors demanding self-rule clashed with police on April 9 . |
| 30 | Clockwise from left : roulade of guinea fowl stuffed with duck on a cranberry and lime sauce ; courgette and wild mushroom flan ; marinated fresh trout with melon and red peppers |