Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For answer , I picked up the newspaper from where I 'd thrown it on the desk . |
| 2 | I know I did seen it on the T V , different places , but I , I did n't know anything about here . |
| 3 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 4 | He woke me at two this morning and gave me his best horse and bid me not to stop till I had overtaken you on the way . |
| 5 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 6 | Anyway I was back in the office when I suddenly felt hot and faint … you see I had left him on the island , with three lanes still to cross . |
| 7 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 8 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 9 | And yet he could have sworn that someone had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 10 | She looked up at Trent , as if seeing him for the first time : ‘ I 'd have drowned if you 'd left me on the Key . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 12 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 13 | Then I 'd wondered if some women who 'd stopped me on the path had taken it . |
| 14 | It was their way of saying thank you to the locals who 'd helped them on the road to stardom . |
| 15 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 16 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 17 | She had seen it on the table on her Wednesday visit and had said : |
| 18 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 19 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
| 20 | She had sent him on the way to solving the mystery of her husband 's murder . |
| 21 | So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town . |
| 22 | ‘ One must n't take too much of a good thing , for money is easily spent ’ , said one of Beatrice Potter 's hosts , putting the cigarette she had offered him on the mantelpiece after one or two puffs , for the next night . |
| 23 | Hosanna started to smell the debris where she had put it on the marble top of the kitchen dresser and she shouted at him so that he darted out into the yard . |
| 24 | When the envelope had arrived she had put it on the mantelpiece in the small sitting-room , but almost at once she had decided to take it more closely into her possession . |
| 25 | Piers Morrison was a dangerous stranger , one who made no effort to treat her with respect , far less subservience , and who had kissed her on the spur of the moment , then instantly regretted it because he basically did n't like her . |
| 26 | However , after a couple of dances had elapsed , Clara thought she spotted the civilized young man who had assisted her on the Channel crossing ; once she had spotted him she turned rigidly away , so deep was her horror of imitating Janice 's conduct , but she lost nothing by it , for within a couple of minutes he presented himself , courteously , at her elbow . |
| 27 | She gave a little shiver as a goose ran over her grave , and stroked Cas and Poll , who had joined her on the swing-seat . |
| 28 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 29 | Leese claimed that his ‘ martyrdom ’ had been achieved against the wishes of the Jury who had acquitted him on the serious charge . |
| 30 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |