Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the bald man I had spoken with on the video trunk-call screen . |
| 2 | Lord Harris agreed to be chairman and a group of academics , about half of those whom Robertson had approached , turned up to an informal first meeting at Dean 's Yard , Westminster ( ‘ Suddenly all these distinguished geezers I had spoken to on the phone were there in this room ’ ) . |
| 3 | Then she gave a low cry of astonishment , for this was the dark young man she had cannoned into on the parade at St Petrock 's , on that momentous Christmas Eve . |
| 4 | A large sculpture , primitive in nature and in texture , African she thought , although she had not cared to ask him , fearing he might expand rather more than she had bargained for on the origins of what she suspected to be a goddess of fertility . |
| 5 | Her behaviour had not been normal nor good , but it was not Finn she had railed at on the public highway . |
| 6 | It remembered Vaduz VI , a chirpy AI it had interfaced with on the banking net . |
| 7 | And when the great gentleman detective got hold of the village postman and subjected him to an interrogation which ranged from what he had eaten for breakfast to whether or not he possessed a wireless set and if so what he had listened to on the previous morning , Sergeant Bramble maintained a stoic countenance . |
| 8 | Such belligerent consolation made me think more , not less , about that strange woman he had coupled with on the Nile . |
| 9 | They were the two he had talked to on the previous search , the ones who had been taking such pains with the dovecot . |
| 10 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |