Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
| 2 | With the hassle , I somehow missed out on the pudding , but G assured me he 'd had the usual number of five . |
| 3 | I 'm frightened of the probation and the social services finding out that I 'm using again , 'cos when I came out this time , they said to me that , if I ever went back on the smack , that the kids 'd be took off me , no two ways about it … . |
| 4 | But afterwards , in the Institute , I also read up on the Catherine Palace . |
| 5 | Megadeth are a band with thousands of followers , some of them just starting out on the guitar . |
| 6 | Erm I thought you had a good structured call , you were focused on business , you obviously picked up on the buying side . |
| 7 | and you find that you just slipped up on the scale or even on the calculating your table because you just , Oh this is easy this is easy . |
| 8 | Isabel was so stunned that she nearly fell back on the pillows . |
| 9 | She now lay back on the couch and , staring towards the fire , she said , ‘ Been a funny house , this , held so many lives and hardly any of them happy , except my mother 's . ’ |
| 10 | We will fail to understand the significance of terrestrial zodiacs If we merely pick up on the generally insignificant evidence for their physical reality . |
| 11 | Like several of his contemporaries , his best season with us was 1913–14 , when we only missed out on the championship itself on goal-average . |
| 12 | ‘ There was peach cup — that was very good ; and we played guessing games and I won three times and later on they rolled up the carpet — figuratively — we just went out on the terrace and turned on the gramophone and danced . ’ |
| 13 | And we always home in on the cost of a full page . |
| 14 | Well that , that 's what I 'm saying is that , I think what we have to start doing and I 'm not suggesting you 're not doing , but I just want to talk about this in , before we practically kick off on the course proper , I think what , I mean that comes off , and then the oil starts dripping out of it , and the minute the oil starts dripping out , then we become quite a good artist are n't we ? |
| 15 | In this , the third issue of Update devoted to general SVQs , we also report back on the seminars held recently for external verifiers and for centre co-ordinators from new piloting centres . |
| 16 | and the Monday , and they eventually turned up on the Tuesday . |
| 17 | Most of the guests on his show live next door — they just pop in on the way home from work . |
| 18 | The musky male scent of his cologne teased her nostrils , and she was ashamed at the way her knees were trembling as he led her over to sit down on the wide , comfortable couch . |
| 19 | They finally came down on the side of 36-year-old Anne Bancroft , although she had seldom played comedy , having made her name in such powerful dramas as The Miracle Worker and The Pumpkin Eater . |
| 20 | All our maypole queens , crown bearers and dancers look back on the ceremony with pride , and they still come back on the day . ’ |
| 21 | United chopped and changed their team to face Leicester , but they still ended up on the wrong end of a 2-1 scoreline . |
| 22 | So , if people ca n't get hold of an application form , can they still turn up on the day , I think that 's the final thing is n't it ? |
| 23 | They even turned up on the catwalks of Milan . ’ |
| 24 | Film of the event shows that they immediately ganged up on the leopard , rushing at it , screaming , stamping their feet and throwing objects at it . |
| 25 | It eventually settles down on the bottom of the sea and grows into a tiny flower-like organism called a polyp . |
| 26 | When Leach opened that cupboard it just tumbled out on the floor . ’ |
| 27 | he , he , he , he said hard , right , so he can fucking , he said I 'll , I 'll take these and the first man that comes up fucking bashes it and then James er John James gets them all and when he wakes up , just as he 's about to wake up John James thinks right and he fucking lays down on the ground and he wakes up and sees all these clowns all over the place |
| 28 | It finally eases off on the very top of Rudland Rigg , a majestic shoulder of land running north to south , with views right across the moors . |
| 29 | Surviving reports and other evidence show that he also sat in on the hearing of ordinary civil litigation in at least five counties . |
| 30 | Is is it correctly set out on the day 's programme ? |