Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | stood round in groups or knelt on half-bald knees |
| 2 | Having given away all her money in Rome , she begged her food , or existed on charitable donations . |
| 3 | Both parties have invited this court to proceed on the basis that the validity of the appointment is not and can not be disputed or decided on this application . |
| 4 | I I think these are fellows that were either killed or died on active service . |
| 5 | Perhaps they called for stoups of ale or goblets of Rhenish , or supped on plain fare , my masters . |
| 6 | Here , in a series of wrecked sheds , men mended cars or sat on old tyres , smoking . |
| 7 | Scuffles broke out everywhere as our officers came out of hiding and pounced on six members of the gang who bolted into the woods and sand dunes around the bay before being rounded up with the assistance of police dogs . |
| 8 | ‘ High interest rates … have dampened consumer expenditure and impacted on retail spending , ’ says the chairman , Geoffrey Maitland Smith . |
| 9 | Not made of coloured crêpe paper , faded , dusty and crinkled on bent wire stems like Mrs Parvis had in her parlour . |
| 10 | Representatives of the Czech and Slovak television and radio services met in Bratislava on Aug. 5 and agreed on joint back-up and operations of television and radio coverage in both republics . |
| 11 | Officials of Czech coalition parties met in Prague on Oct. 13 and agreed on major points of their republic 's future constitution . |
| 12 | She gazed into his face raptly as he described his clinic the day before at St Mary 's and passed on good wishes from Sister Concepta . |
| 13 | He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen . |
| 14 | The huge whorled fingers uncurled and passed on either side of his waist . |
| 15 | Although few people still retained the Great War view that German soldiers wore dead babies on their helmet spikes and lived on human flesh , there was little doubt in many minds that the Fuhrer was related to the devil . |
| 16 | The houses were meticulously painted and rose on ten-foot stilts above the ground . |
| 17 | We were slowing down for lunch and lack of fitness , and after traversing 200 feet of horizontal ridge and tricky gendarmes , we found a terrace in the sun below the final flawless tower and sucked on soggy oranges . |
| 18 | It has successfully developed and operated a port at Sheerness in Kent and drew on this experience in deciding to develop a commercial port in the easternmost portion of the old dockyard . |
| 19 | The belief that different treatment methods are needed for and tried on different populations of sufferers does not stand up to critical examination : the stories of those in recovery from addictive disease through the Anonymous Fellowships are so immensely varied that it is quite clear that this population has not been selected in any way . |
| 20 | The two girls sometimes exercised the horses together and seemed on amiable terms . |
| 21 | Combinations of letters were discussed and rejected on various grounds . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | All the girls were taught embroidery , and the whole family sang and played on musical instruments . |
| 24 | Poole , and sailed on 14th December to join her new owner 's fleet . |
| 25 | It is now possible to buy fax systems that run within the word-processing applications to enable faxes to be sent and received on personal computers or work stations . |
| 26 | For further characterisation of the platelet aggregation molecules , platelet activating factor extracted from biopsy specimens from patients with Crohn 's disease was pooled , dried and eluted on high performance liquid chromatography . |
| 27 | The hair was now centrally parted , and crimped on either side of the face . |
| 28 | There was no yardage chart in those days , but I worked out very quickly that Arnold was two clubs stronger than me , so I just put myself in the same situation and added on two clubs . |
| 29 | Other soldiers set out to follow Ekofo 's funeral , due to take place on Monday , and fired on unconnected ceremonies at two cemeteries . |
| 30 | They were completed and opened on 6 December 18 60 with places for 400 pupils . |