Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] on " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 2 | Back at her flat , though , she made herself a cup of tea and was able to give her thoughts free rein — all of them centred on Naylor Massingham . |
| 3 | Everyone agreed on that . |
| 4 | ‘ There were 17 players in the team and everyone got on the pitch at some point during the game , ’ he added . |
| 5 | For years father had been nagging away at him to take some interest and prove he had the Miletti flair , yet as soon as he tried to show a bit of initiative everyone got on their high horse about it , father especially , calling him a worthless junkie and I do n't what else besides . |
| 6 | They refused to leave on request and attempts to eject them failed on account of the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the local station . |
| 7 | His conversations with me centred on Heidegger and death " . |
| 8 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 9 | The crossbow , most useful in defence when the crossbowman , who needed protection for the time required to wind up his weapon , could hide himself behind a wall , was an elitist weapon , most effective in the hands of Gascons , who fought in Wales for Edward I , and of Genoese , a large contingent of whom fought on the French side at Crécy . |
| 10 | These are ancient divisions of the territory , recognized for centuries past as distinct pays , but you are unlikely to find them entered on a modern map , so I should apologize for introducing what will seem like obsolete names . |
| 11 | The general assumption by everyone involved on the Allied side , from 5 Corps up to AFHQ , had been that , in terms of the Yalta repatriation agreement , the " Cossacks " were Soviet citizens , and on that basis the decision in Principle had been made that , however much this may have regretted by some people on humanitarian grounds , the British obligation was to hand them over . |
| 12 | They have thousands of tons of them stockpiled on their western front . |
| 13 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 14 | Those things do n't sound fearsome — till you see them used on a man 's body . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ After we stuck five past Liverpool , everyone concentrated on their problems . |
| 16 | There were a few minutes of silence as everyone concentrated on their food . |
| 17 | Nothing moved on the bank nor on the catamaran . |
| 18 | Nothing moved on the road now except for a man driving eight cows from one pasture to another . |
| 19 | Nothing moved on the ice . |
| 20 | Nothing moved on the land . |
| 21 | Nothing moved on the bank or out on the water . |
| 22 | I asked on that occasion for considerably more information . |
| 23 | My right hon. Friend will recall that I asked on 18 July for an inquiry , and my constituents will welcome what my right hon. Friend has said today . |
| 24 | I asked on a hunch . |
| 25 | Like this conversation I overheard on Uros . |
| 26 | Oh mind , it was quite light , it was n't and I saddled on the path and I did n't , I do n't take chances . |
| 27 | Fantasy came back from the horsebreaker with the terrifying habit of standing on her hind legs every time someone got on her back . |
| 28 | I lost it in 1963 on the A30 west of Salisbury when I skidded on some diesel oil and rolled over and over . |
| 29 | And still I surfed on Manhattan static . |
| 30 | ‘ I was in a difficult situation when someone passed on the news Boro had won . |