Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . |
| 2 | The headmaster was getting a little too close to the bone for my liking , so I decided to go on the defensive . |
| 3 | As I was ushered into Mark Shand 's spacious flat in South Kensington I saw lying on the living table a book called Living Dangerously . |
| 4 | I chose to write on the Holy Spirit myself for a very definite reason . |
| 5 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 6 | Until now , I had looked on the legendary Frankenstein as a sort of piece-meal dabbler in cadavers , a small-time crank who haunted crypts and graves for mismatched eyes and hands . |
| 7 | But I had left on the five o'clock train . ’ |
| 8 | Well to keep his rope tight , I had to pull on the other , and the other chap would jerk me back . |
| 9 | Faith , her boyfriend and I waited to ride on the same flight as the box . |
| 10 | People were throwing things over her garden wall and someone had painted on the front door . |
| 11 | That second night in the porch was enough and I resolved to move on the following day , whatever happened . |
| 12 | When I was due to arrive in Tasmania to stay with a geologist colleague , Penny Green , you can imagine that I was n't too displeased when I was asked if I minded going on the odd fishing trip as the whole family was ’ into ’ it ! |
| 13 | Stamp duties , which did fall on the luxury consumption of the better-off , made up only 13 per cent of indirect taxation in 1800 and less than half as much of total revenue . |
| 14 | An eighteenth century travelling commode from the Duke and Duchess of Wellington , a pair of Georgian chairs from the people of Bermuda and wrought-iron gates from the neighbouring village of Tetbury were just a sample of the cornucopia of presents which had descended on the royal couple . |
| 15 | At the end of August the rains stopped as suddenly as if taps had been turned off September was considered by the English community even under normal conditions to be the most unhealthy month of the year ; while the hot sun resumed its office of drying out the pools of water which had collected on the sodden earth , fever-bearing mists and miasmas hung everywhere . |
| 16 | Strike committees in Byelorussia decided to resume on May 22 the general strike which had gripped the republic in April [ see pp. 38129-30 ] , because a session of the republic 's Supreme Soviet which had opened on the previous day was still refusing to put on its agenda demands for a coalition government . |
| 17 | At first you seemed to concentrate on the later works , the Fourth Symphony onwards . |
| 18 | She rang the number she 'd seen on the underground and went to the address they told her . |
| 19 | It was the decision she 'd made on the silent journey back to the hotel , and one she intended to keep . |
| 20 | She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head . |
| 21 | She adored working on the million pound project which was predicted would rival Paul Hogan 's Crocodile Dundee smashes . |
| 22 | She decided to look on the positive side . |
| 23 | Reflected in the half opened eyes of the man who lay dying on the thick rug of his apartment . |
| 24 | Her lovely face came before his eyes and he thought how beautifully she had played on the few occasions she had come down here with him . |
| 25 | When the fear eased , she had banged on the locked wooden door , but there had been no response , apart from the laughter of the guards who were stationed on the other side . |
| 26 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 27 | She thought with a rush of gratitude of the letter she had had from Gay , in answer to the one she had written on the first night of the holidays . |
| 28 | Her desires were my only hold over her , so despite her frantic pleas I refused to go any further than finger-fucking until she had signed on the dotted line . |
| 29 | He had absolutely , however , set his face against accepting help from Ruby Dobby although she had arrived on the second floor that morning full of promises if not promise . |
| 30 | She had smiled on the new young courtier , and she had helped him , and he had been fascinated by her , for although she was ageing , there were still easily discernible traces of the famous beauty who had led armies into battle and lovers into bed ; who had brought Ireland to the brink of something so truly great that its fame would echo down the centuries . |