Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 2 | Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National . |
| 3 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 4 | In my maths in school we just finished them on the last day . |
| 5 | They deliberately sent me on a wild goose chase . |
| 6 | In developing the character of Frank Spencer from Raymond Allen 's scripts , he partly based it on a young man with bicycle clips whom he had seen in Battersea . |
| 7 | You 're getting the feel of the machine … ooops … nearly lost it on a dry road ! |
| 8 | ‘ Like it ? ’ asked Sergeant , who had dashed round through the gate and now welcomed them on the other side . |
| 9 | I still ca n't quite believe how successful Neighbours has become — particularly as the Beeb originally bought it on the cheap just to fill part of their new ‘ Daytime ’ schedule . |
| 10 | It was a great day , and best of all we even made it on the nine , on the six o'clock news . |
| 11 | Today had her on the front page , in full colour . |
| 12 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |