Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was , however , systematic about the 30 or so in-depth interviews that I conducted on a random sample basis by allocating each member of the movement in Britain a number which had an equal chance of being selected from a book of numbers especially prepared for such purposes . |
| 2 | Rachel was n't expecting her family to arrive until late morning so she decided on a quick visit to the occupational health centre to see if by any remote chance David might be there . |
| 3 | There followed protracted negotiations ; and it was not until weeks later that we settled on a permanent arrangement that satisfied everyone . |
| 4 | It began to get quite hot so we sat on a mossy bank and shared an orange . |
| 5 | Kondratiev 's basic proposition was that the advanced capitalist economies as a whole ( although he concentrated on a selected few only ) go through cycles of booms and slumps in a regular pattern . |
| 6 | Whilst there are undoubted cultural factors acting on the latency phenomenon , as Freud himself recognized , he nevertheless maintained that it rested on a biological , innate foundation . |
| 7 | To that representative of the religious élite who by his bland statement , ‘ How happy are those who will sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God ! , ’ revealed that he counted on a reserved seat , our Lord told the parable of the Great Feast . |
| 8 | There can be no doubt that he planned on a great scale . |
| 9 | From long experience , Belinda 's younger brothers would have known in an instant by the crisp , deceptively mild tone that she was no longer fooling around , but unfortunately Greg Carey was n't possessed of this experience , so he said on a thick , purring note , ‘ Because you need to loosen up , get rid of some inhibitions . |
| 10 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 11 | My sister Pat , aged thirteen was in theory being educated at home according to a syllabus devised by the Parents ' National Educational Union , and which worked on a postal basis in much the same way as the Open University does today . |
| 12 | She put out a hand and touched him on the sleeve , but he moved back as if he had n't noticed , and she said on a rising note , ‘ Why are you looking like that ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If we lived on a good one , how would things be different ? ’ |
| 14 | If we lived on a very , very heavy planet … ’ |
| 15 | So for example , if I went on er a job on Monday I could possibly draw gun number three but the following day if we went on a similar operation I might get gun number six . |
| 16 | There the rise and swell of incomprehensible Latin seemed to have a grandeur that aroused the spirit of poetry in the Gaels , as if they stood on a rocky shore communing with the waves . |
| 17 | His two front teeth shattered , and he choked on a sudden spurt of blood . |
| 18 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 19 | right , Archie , he 's erm , on his own , own he 's er , think his wife died years ago , he saved and saved and he went on a big cruise , do you know what I mean ? |
| 20 | He finally took the advice of doctors a month later , and he went on a two-week holiday to Jamaica . |
| 21 | He had a growing circle of friends , almost entirely non-aristocratic , both in Worcestershire and in London , both inside and outside the House of Commons , and he entertained on a moderate scale . |
| 22 | Papa did n't know what to do , and then he got talking to some of his cronies , and he decided on a Grand Scheme . |
| 23 | But this was this big case was on you know , and it went on A big lawsuit it went on for quite a while . |
| 24 | It looks as if he decided on a do-it-yourself habit modelled on those of Augustinian hermits who wore a basic white garment and scapulary which for outside wear were covered with a black cowl and hood tied round with a black leather thong . |
| 25 | I could hear the sound of rent cloth in my head , but I stood on a wooden chair while Lili pinned the seams closer , standing quietly like a broken horse to be saddled and bridled . |
| 26 | Afternoon programmes were not designed for him , but he stayed on a black and white film . |
| 27 | As instructed , the building was largely three-storey , but it stood on a high basement and was dominated by a spiky ventilation tower centrally placed over the War Department . |
| 28 | Stephen Brown survived because he landed on a narrow ledge about 18ft below the cliff edge at Sandy Bay , Exmouth , Devon , Charles Barton QC , for the prosecution , said . |
| 29 | Because he concentrated on a single target while the Russians played their world-wide game , they sometimes failed to notice where he was pulling their fingers . |
| 30 | In early 1944 I was asked by the Burma Government if I would consider deputising for B.R. Pearn while he went on a much-needed furlough . |