Example sentences of "who [vb past] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present interior dates from 1852 when it was used by Emperor Ferdinand the Gracious , the last king of Bohemia who abdicated in 1848 in favour of his nephew but who lived on in the castle until his death , in 1875 . |
| 2 | Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one . |
| 3 | The subsidiary company did better than the Virginia Company , kept going for another sixty years , and in the 1640s provided most of the settlers who moved on to the Bahamas . |
| 4 | Then came the era of the Brat Pack , a bunch of young Hollywood actors who came on to the scene thinking they were God 's gift to the cinema — and some of them were . |
| 5 | The newspaper reporters who came on to the scene contributed to the overspill of spite . |
| 6 | His point was that the yobs who came on to the pitch did so from the comfort of a new , multi-million pound stand . |
| 7 | A policeman brought down two children who clambered on to the roof of a butcher 's shop in South Bank Road , Middlesbrough , at the weekend and could not get down . |
| 8 | The general practitioner , however , retained his or her claim to be ‘ an independent contractor ’ by receiving a sum of money from the Central Exchequer for each person who signed on to the practice . |
| 9 | The first performance came from two people in white radiation suits who walked on to the stage carrying a dustbin allegedly containing nuclear waste . |
| 10 | Most letters asked for autographs or photographs , some complained of or praised a person interviewed or view expressed , and there was always a sprinkling of old dears short of correspondents who rambled on about the old days . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Lydia , sitting up , ‘ it was Beuno who went on about the golden emerods . ’ |
| 12 | And using Azharuddin , who burst on to the Test scene with three centuries against the 1984-85 England side , as a scapegoat will not be hard to justify . |
| 13 | In some areas technical and central schools also provided for children who stayed on beyond the leaving age of fourteen . |