Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sand was cleaner than water , the desert dead cleaner than the drowned dishevelled things which I had seen thrown up on shores . |
| 2 | He seemed to have forgotten I had tried to walk out on him fifty kilometres or so back . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel I should say that if I had to get washed up on a beach minus my memory I was lucky the beach was yours , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 4 | Every time I changed trains there was a posse of London Underground inspectors , so I had to keep doubling back on myself . |
| 5 | ‘ I invented having to go out on that instant . |
| 6 | If by any chance you DID manage to miss out on last months ' issue , fear not ! |
| 7 | She had liked to lie in on Saturdays and Sundays . |
| 8 | The only brush she possessed was the one she used for her make-up , and the only pencil the one she had found lying about on the sideboard . |
| 9 | ‘ It was one of the few bits of information we did manage to pick up on the grapevine . |
| 10 | Jardine and Johnstone guessed that they had decided to strike out on their own now , no doubt reluctant to have to share any of their gleanings with others . |
| 11 | Certainly not compared to the time he got caught messing around on the roof of Battersea Power Station trying to nick the lead . |
| 12 | The simplest explanation was that Maxham was getting nowhere with the Newley case ; and he 'd sent Viol along on the off chance , to put a little pressure on Lorton and see what happened . |
| 13 | David gained his first experience of business with his father and brothers , but by the late 1840s he had decided to strike out on his own , perhaps partly because of his strong temperance convictions . |
| 14 | He had had to go out on exercise one night , and was on duty another , poor thing . |
| 15 | ‘ He noticed the Rover he had overtaken closing in on him , ’ he told magistrates at nearby Witney . |