Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] on [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually just just quickly er I just noticed on that list of your questionnaires that we got back a couple that they did n't actually know what was going on . |
| 2 | I believe especially I never came on this campaign until after I went to see Arafat . |
| 3 | But she firmly stamped on that thought . |
| 4 | I remember Christmas Eve 1930 , when we went as we always did on that day to the High Street to look at the lighted shops , seeing a little girl in a tattered dress and with bare feet , her nose pressed at the toy-shop window . |
| 5 | So they , they welcomed the idea of a separation of powers but they also insisted on another principle , probably the most important principle of American government , and that is the principle of federalism . |
| 6 | When I went to Webber Douglas they practically fell on any man as a rare species . |
| 7 | They went a little while ago , apart from that they never came on this end |
| 8 | I tell you in all candour that the option no longer exists , and that , insofar as it ever did exist , it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy , followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step . ’ ? |
| 9 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 10 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 11 | Naturally , he listens to recommendations from the local councils , as he clearly did on this occasion , but he was absolutely right not to adopt all their suggestions . |
| 12 | One of the problems with the Official Report is that heavy irony usually fails to come off , and it certainly did on that occasion . |
| 13 | Although there was a resistance movement to the German occupation , it never developed on any scale and did not have the support of the mass of the people who were coddled by the occupying regime . |
| 14 | If he comes to court , what happened at the police station does n't matter because he 'll then give direct evidence , not what he said in the police station but what actually happened on that night in the , in the estate . |