Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
2 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
3 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
4 | ‘ Even when I got by on a fast straight , where the extra power of my machine was beneficial , I thought it might be part of his plan to let me go in front and force me into making a mistake . ’ |
5 | ‘ I 'm happy ’ , ‘ I 'm settled ’ , ‘ Now I know what it feels like ’ , ‘ I got out on the right side ’ . |
6 | Devlin said , ‘ In forty-one , I got back on a neutral boat , a Brazilian cargo ship from Ireland that put in at Lisbon , but that 's a tricky one . |
7 | Klondyke Trading Co are responsible for providing a variety of straps for both the home market and the world , but as I found out on a recent visit there 's more to making one guitar strap than meets the eye , let alone producing thousands . |
8 | I thought you said there 'd be no problem if I came in on a six-month permit ? ’ |
9 | I came out on the Good Friday and , on the Saturday morning , stitches still in and everything , I got up and thought to myself : ‘ I 'm going to have a smoke ’ . |
10 | The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there . |
11 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
12 | Below , I look down on the differing surfaces , the differing states of ripeness from light green through to gold . |
13 | I plonked down on the hard wooden sofa and began musing : was he telling the truth ? |
14 | So in July 1982 I set off on a similar journey . |
15 | Then , once dressed , I set out on the great excursion : shopping , errands , and a treat in a cafe . |
16 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
17 | I popped out on the sixth-floor roof and had a cigarette . ’ |
18 | At first I managed to get hold of two pictures by Popova , then the thread broke off and , completely by chance , I stumbled back on the right trail . |
19 | I lay back on the hot canvas of a recliner and closed my eyes , soaking it in . |
20 | I lay back on the empty bed and looked at my watch . |
21 | As I lay back on the clean white sheet tucked round the hard mattress of the sick room bed and faded into a temporary oblivion , I thought to myself that perhaps early retirement would be no bad thing to consider after all . |
22 | I lay down on the Pennine moors |
23 | Editor , — Recently , as a trainee general practitioner , I went out on an urgent call at lunchtime on a weekday . |
24 | It was really too cold for the clothes I had brought , so I fell back on a recommended resource . |
25 | I leaned back on the young tree that as a sapling had been the Killer . |
26 | For a long time I sat out on the crumbling turf , with the blue distances below , and warm sun lying over this lovely autumn land . |
27 | I sat down on the only patch of turf |
28 | I sat down on the wooden bed . |
29 | So was it very surprising that I picked up on the African presence moving around the island ? |
30 | I missed out on the Welsh match , so you might think this is sour grapes . |