Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Their voices rose on this note from the kitchen to saturate the bedroom above where on summer evenings you lay rigid with wakefulness . |
| 3 | The trumpets blew on both sides . |
| 4 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 5 | Short stories , pamphlets , and articles appeared on both sides of the Atlantic and her novel , The Magnetic North ( 1904 ) , was a best seller , and was compared to the work of Daniel Defoe [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Sunday afternoon walk along the lanes was always interesting , even to very young children , for the high banks towered on either side of us , covered in wild flowers — campions , hemp agrimony , foxgloves , honeysuckle and many , many more . |
| 8 | There , identical buildings stood on each side of the track . |
| 9 | They had really tired of each other and it had become a struggle between them that was slow to surface until the Diamond Dogs tour because a lot of things happened on that tour that they were both very unhappy about . |
| 10 | If I let life on this planet die out and send the slug into space , then , since it will exist for ever , the quantity of pleasure it will enjoy will eventually outweigh all the pleasures enjoyed on this earth for ten thousand years . |
| 11 | Arguments started on some fisheries when match organisers and pleasure anglers tried to fish venues usually left for freelance angling . |
| 12 | Apple trees grew on either side of the double-sided small house , and behind it the land rose smoothly to a small wood that followed the ridge of a hill . |
| 13 | If the returns of all securities lay on this line there would be no opportunities for profitable arbitrage . |
| 14 | The zig-zag stripes of trench-systems lay on either side like the skin shed by a massive snake . |
| 15 | But the preliminary questions put to Vinelott J. , and the issues argued on this appeal , relate to issues of principle . |
| 16 | She too had been caught by the Nazis , I walked along beside her and the bears walked on each side of us . |
| 17 | When in 1916 , the Metropolitan Police insisted on all trams being fitted with side lamps , the remainder of the Croydon fleet had them fixed in small wooden boxes under the edge of the canopy . |
| 18 | Yeah I got some work and me boys got on some post putting up , he said , but mind you , it might er dry up I do n't know , it looks a bit er , thick does n't it ? |
| 19 | He was just warming up ; she knew the signs , knowing quite accurately the effect her looks had on most males of most ages . |
| 20 | Ahead , to the left , tin roofs glinted on another plateau , which rose at a distance of eight miles away . |