Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
| 2 | With the hassle , I somehow missed out on the pudding , but G assured me he 'd had the usual number of five . |
| 3 | I 'm frightened of the probation and the social services finding out that I 'm using again , 'cos when I came out this time , they said to me that , if I ever went back on the smack , that the kids 'd be took off me , no two ways about it … . |
| 4 | Because I probably lost out on a lot of money . |
| 5 | But afterwards , in the Institute , I also read up on the Catherine Palace . |
| 6 | Besides I 've got ta see what happens on a Sunday morning anyway cos I often miss out on a Sunday morning . |
| 7 | I often miss out on a Sunday morning . |
| 8 | Megadeth are a band with thousands of followers , some of them just starting out on the guitar . |
| 9 | Er turn left onto Road , to the railway line , and it cuts back along the railway line er which eventually comes out on the ring road . |
| 10 | Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year . |
| 11 | Instead they form squelchy peat , which gradually builds up on the surface . |
| 12 | They were flowered sheets , brightly flowered sheets which sometimes slipped about on the plastic mattress cover which had never been removed . |
| 13 | In retaliation the US Navy sent in A-7 attack aircraft launching stand-off Harm missiles which neatly homed in on the Libyan radar stations and destroyed them , killing over 70 Libyans . |
| 14 | There 's that side of things , and I hope that that is changing , alas again too slowly erm I think the Taylor report , which firmly came down on the side of more lay control of schools by parents and members of the community , put up and unanswerable case . |
| 15 | Erm I thought you had a good structured call , you were focused on business , you obviously picked up on the buying side . |
| 16 | Fellow Ulsterman Ronan Rafferty , who just missed out on a Ryder Cup cap , moved into fourth place on six under , six behind , with a 68 . |
| 17 | Did you just help out on a Saturday or |
| 18 | and you find that you just slipped up on the scale or even on the calculating your table because you just , Oh this is easy this is easy . |
| 19 | If you ever break down on a country road at 2 a.m. , you will truly understand the meaning of the word ‘ alone ’ . |
| 20 | Isabel was so stunned that she nearly fell back on the pillows . |
| 21 | These she later filled in on an assessment form , She also contacted and talked to the client 's nearest relatives or other informal carers . |
| 22 | These visitors , about 42 per cent from overseas , also divide into three categories : those who book far in advance , whose who gain starting times in the daily ballot and the ‘ casuals ’ who haphazardly turn up on the off-chance of being asked to make up a foursome . |
| 23 | She now lay back on the couch and , staring towards the fire , she said , ‘ Been a funny house , this , held so many lives and hardly any of them happy , except my mother 's . ’ |
| 24 | He introduced Whitlock and Sabrina to Bailey who then sat down on the second black leather sofa and took a cigar from his pocket . |
| 25 | You never go out on a limb and try something new or different . |
| 26 | Good heavens , she thought , since she 'd spent most of her life studying , she seldom went out on a Saturday night anyhow ! |
| 27 | We will fail to understand the significance of terrestrial zodiacs If we merely pick up on the generally insignificant evidence for their physical reality . |
| 28 | Like several of his contemporaries , his best season with us was 1913–14 , when we only missed out on the championship itself on goal-average . |
| 29 | ‘ There was peach cup — that was very good ; and we played guessing games and I won three times and later on they rolled up the carpet — figuratively — we just went out on the terrace and turned on the gramophone and danced . ’ |
| 30 | Theresa are we not are we not missing out with this legislation are we not missing out on a little thing called compassion ? |