Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , I once stayed on a tiny Wyoming ranch where the teetotal owner dragged us out of bed at 5 a.m. for long , freezing horse rides into the Rockies . |
| 2 | I once sat on a Labour-controlled council which went out to tender and would not accept the lowest tender because it did not come from a direct labour department . |
| 3 | Well it was when I 'd finished my midwifery training I certainly stayed on a little while in er in doing a bit of district work . |
| 4 | Name the US aircraft carrier which accidentally fired on a Turkish destroyer , killing five crewmen . |
| 5 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 6 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
| 7 | The Sex Pistols ( who once touched on a similar subject ) also made sense , once , but although Johnny Rotten was a wry and clever ambassador for the feeling of the youth , he equally made it perfectly easy for the tabloids to pin him with yobbishness . |
| 8 | The lie had a pronounced effect upon Lettice who immediately ventured on a small excursion into terror . |
| 9 | ‘ But you never went on a sea-going ship , to faraway lands ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You never went on a gas-main explosion in Newark Eddy , ’ he said irritably . |
| 11 | A sort of cat and mouse game followed , especially going up the long hill , but we eventually settled on a dead heat . |
| 12 | This year , we also insisted on a substantial strengthening of the nature of the health warnings put on packets and on any tobacco advertising . |
| 13 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 14 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 15 | Such was the organisers ' strong determination to live up to the movie image of English life , they even laid on a scatty vicar wearing a panama hat to serve tea and sandwiches at the finish . |
| 16 | The first meeting place was above a cafe in Newgate Street in the City of London , but this did not prove satisfactory and they then met on a weekly basis at another cafe near Marble Arch . |
| 17 | His choice had more than its share of steps and when he eventually arrived on a pleasant terrace overlooking the harbour , a pounding in his chest reminded him once more that he was middle-aged . |
| 18 | One and a half hours later , as he still sat on a high stool at the bar , he looked down and saw the fingers of a beautifully manicured hand against his left arm , and felt the ghost of a touch of the softest breast against his shoulder . |
| 19 | Can it be true that , 6000 miles from home , he once called on a well-known American geophysicist in the middle of the night with an urgent request to have a secretary type his latest contribution to the journals ? |
| 20 | He usually arrived on a powerful motor bicycle a B.M.W. , I am told . |
| 21 | He usually stood on a little platform raised high enough to enable him to see over and past the cabins when the boat was moving . |
| 22 | He now embarked on a new recording contract for Capitol , and proved wrong all the critics who 'd said he was just emulating Crosby when he developed his own new determined style which culminated in 1955 with his album Songs For Swinging Lovers , one of the first best-selling LPs . |
| 23 | He then embarked on a long tirade about the tactics we should adopt for a forthcoming game with an Army side . |
| 24 | He then laid on a wonderful cross a minute later for McCann to blast past Brendan Keeley . |
| 25 | A catering student in Seaham had to be taken to hospital after he accidentally sat on a new knife . |