Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A RUCKSACK , containing a personal stereo and other belongings , together valued at £90 , was stolen from a car parked in Medstead overnight on Friday . |
| 2 | At the Italian Open in Rome in May his suffering showed as he watched the family breadwinner losing to Amanda Croetzer who Jennifer was expected to breeze past on her way to more glory . |
| 3 | Many three-bedroomed houses occupied by single people or couples could be occupied by families now on the council 's waiting list , it says . |
| 4 | Stressing that his views were personal and not society policy , Mr Adair gave as examples of tinkering with the criminal system attempts to have the not proven verdict abolished , to introduce an offensive weapons charge and to examine the number of crimes committed by people already on bail . |
| 5 | Detectives have established a special squad to target known criminals , but they say many break-ins are committed by burglars already on bail for earlier crimes . |
| 6 | The weapon is carried by Engineers either on horseback or in one of the Engineers School 's War Wagons . |
| 7 | EC Finance Ministers met in Washington late on Sept. 20 ( where they were attending the IMF annual meeting ) and expressed the hope that the result would ease tensions within the EMS . |
| 8 | A small illustration of its front view had appeared in the second edition of Boalch among a selection of plates chosen to illustrate signatures and inscriptions — in this instance ‘ Gulielmus Smith Londini fecit ’ written in ink directly on the frontboard . |
| 9 | We had sailed from Stornoway earlier on a perfect summer 's evening . |
| 10 | I had been enrolled as a student at Canterbury before I went to Cambridge ; during the next four years I was visited by missionaries home on leave from Burma , though nothing definite was said . |
| 11 | Winner preferred to film completely on location , rather than in studios . |
| 12 | Feedback is usually produced on results ie on the outputs of the system . |
| 13 | Until now , MicroCadam was supplied by Fujitsu only on its FMR series personal computers . |
| 14 | Hales himself was used by Sadler informally on government business and turned to Sadler 's other proteges for securing the office . |
| 15 | Philpott had then been contacted by Graham personally on the advice of the Delta Commander . |
| 16 | He did so with the support of the southern Saxons and , after a reign of eleven years and seven months ( HE IV , 5 ) , Hlothhere died from wounds received in battle either on 6 February 685 ( HE IV , 26 ) ( if , as Bede believed , he became king in July 673 ) or 686 ( if he did not become king until 674 ) . |
| 17 | A WEST Belfast husband and wife were remanded in court today on a terror charge . |
| 18 | Therefore , there are part areas of towns not covered , and where a particular use is not considered appropriate in these areas other valid reasons must be found for refusal perhaps on the lines suggested below : |
| 19 | they constantly threatened to become more than a handful in every sense , so one sad Saturday he sold the sows with their litters at Taunton market — and since then has dealt with pigs only on paper . |
| 20 | ‘ Laurence Taylor died at Stubbylee of Asiatic Cholera , having arrived from Liverpool only on Saturday last ; he was interred the same day at the old Baptist Chapel . ’ |
| 21 | Eight men were arrested in Ireland later on Oct. 24 for questioning in connection with the attacks . |
| 22 | For example , Latitude was developed by violating , or inducing others to violate , a number of licensing and confidentiality agreements by making use of information provided to developers only on a restricted basis and subject to a number of conditions . ’ |
| 23 | Madonna and Jackson never have mixed — even professionally , though they were once set to work together on a duet . |
| 24 | I had arrived at work late on Monday morning and in none too good a temper . |
| 25 | Moscow 's so-called " Tent City " , a squatter camp in front of the Rossiya Hotel close to the Kremlin , was bulldozed by police early on Dec. 30 , and 57 of its residents were arrested . |
| 26 | The news was broken to Diana late on Tuesday night , more than 24 hours into her controversial tour of South Korea with Prince Charles . |
| 27 | When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him . |
| 28 | From an animal welfare point of view the chasing of a fox or a deer round the countryside with dogs and followed by men either on foot or mounted on horses is a cruel practice which can not be justified . |
| 29 | Police are questioning a 15-year-old youth who was admitted to hospital early on Sunday morning with gunshot wounds to an arm and shoulder . |
| 30 | The bill had been passed by Congress largely on a party-line vote , winning approval in the Senate on May 20 by 61 votes to 38 , and the House of Representatives on June 17 by 268 votes to 153 . |