Example sentences of "[vb past] on [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 2 | They moved on a few steps , again stood together , and wrote , " Angry . |
| 3 | Perhaps the biggest surprise was the amount of fun the Fiesta provided on the latter type of roads , thanks to a willing engine and gearbox , precise if slightly heavy steering and those narrow tyres which , nevertheless , provided exactly the right amount of grip . |
| 4 | Earlier today a lorry driver suffered serious injuries when four heavy goods vehicles crashed on the same stretch of road . |
| 5 | And earlier a lorry driver suffered serious injuries when four heavy goods vehicles crashed on the same stretch of road . |
| 6 | Arraigned on the same charge , Ren Wanding , the veteran human rights activist , who had previously been imprisoned for four years for his activities in the 1978-79 Democracy Movement , was given a more severe seven-year sentence with three years ' deprivation of political rights , having refused to show repentance for his " grave " crimes . |
| 7 | A fortnight ago two men were killed and eight injured on the same stretch of road when a minibus and a car crashed . |
| 8 | Former Leicester striker Paul Kitson gave the visitors the lead after 11 minutes but John Taylor equalised on the half hour before Johnson secured Derby 's fifth successive away victory . |
| 9 | Southend equalised on the half hour , Town 's defence split and Asnah 's chip defeating Digby . |
| 10 | UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont reiterated on the same day that the UK government would take whatever action was necessary to maintain the existing DM2.95 central parity of the pound . |
| 11 | He denounced the arrests on Aug. 14 of opposition leaders , which , he noted , came on the same day as the release of Sgt. Venançio Mikó Obiang , who was convicted in July 1983 of participating in an attempted coup the previous May [ see pp. 32299-300 ] . |
| 12 | The news came on the same day that the car makers Rover announced another year of losses . |
| 13 | The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub . |
| 14 | They started drinking before the parson ever arrived and , when he did , fell upon the beer kegs that came on the same cart as though they were men dying of thirst . |
| 15 | Half in panic , half in the laughter of release , she turned and turned on the same spot . |
| 16 | Gen. Kadijevic stated on the same day that " Yugoslavia as it existed until now has ceased to be " and that " the army is therefore taking certain decisions into its own hands " . |
| 17 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 18 | But that was the shock awaiting staff at Knowle infants school , Solihull , yesterday when nine new pairs of three , four and five-year-olds arrived on the same day to join one couple of twins already there . |
| 19 | Trish Johnson had a closing 70 to sign off at five under , while Sue Strudwick finished on the same mark . |
| 20 | Constitutional changes were first announced on April 28 at the extraordinary congress of the ruling National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( MRND ) which began on the same day . |
| 21 | Mr relied on the same table to produce a figure of twenty point two five pounds on a life expectancy of fifty five years and accepted a reduction to twenty for the whole life multiplier . |
| 22 | It had been held up because of the freezing of assistance to the Soviet Union ( also released on the same day — see p. 38105 ) . |
| 23 | He saw me standing there waiting in the warm light from the cafe and hesitated a second , then walked on a few paces , then stopped and looked back . |
| 24 | Durbeyfield walked on a few steps in a dream , then sat down with his basket . |
| 25 | ‘ Shannon worked on the same production . ’ |
| 26 | Whereas Pleistocene geology was seen to be primarily concerned with stratigraphy and chronology , Butzer saw the need for a more comprehensive study of past environments and envisaged Pleistocene Geography as concerned with the natural environment and focused on the same themes of man and nature that are the concern of historical and contemporary geographies . |
| 27 | Mountaineering Council of Scotland president Bob Reid described the news , which broke on the same day as the much criticised Cairngorms Working Party consultation paper was launched , as part of ‘ a double whammy for the Cairngorms ’ . |
| 28 | The foreigner stumbled on a few steps , his brains leaking out around his earphones , and collapsed in a heap . |
| 29 | Work started on the former gunnery school in April 1991 . |
| 30 | My coming summer holiday started on the same day as my cousin 's , and I was much looking forward to it . |