Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on television " in BNC.

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1 She felt intimidated ; these men were the most powerful in the land , men you only saw on television or in the press .
2 Sir Nicholas Goodison , the former chairman of the International Stock Exchange , once appeared on television 's Jim 'll Fix it to hang a badge around a small child 's neck .
3 The commander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Yugoslavia , Gen Satish Nambiar , also appealed on television to all parties to lay down their weapons , adding that a political settlement was being considered .
4 She also claimed on television that 152 old drawings had disappeared .
5 Khasbulatov later appeared on television to apologize for having caused offence .
6 A LONE gunman killed a French Nazi collaborator yesterday , and then went on television to claim responsibility .
7 Mr Vassiliou , a 61-year-old self-made millionaire , telephoned his opponent to congratulate him and then went on television to concede defeat and appeal for national unity .
8 Mr Rushdie , who recently declared on television that he was no longer prepared to remain shut away from the world , spent the evening with a few favoured friends .
9 Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health .
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