Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [pron] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 2 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 3 | Well yeah but , cos I mean I 'd left it on all night before . |
| 4 | like that , no one knew , I was driving the car and I recorded everything that was in the car all night no one knew until the end of the night , I got the tape home , I go this is gon na be interesting I had to do it on one of my tapes though |
| 5 | Mm , mm I 'd of put them in the , even with these new glasses I these dark ones , you know the dark ones I had to put them on this morning I had to put these dark glasses on cos the light hurt me eyes , so I had to put these on |
| 6 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 7 | I 'd gotten myself a Herald Tribune and I sat reading it on one of the red seats there . ’ |
| 8 | Er but she 's a member and we went there for lunch and it was the ideal place , you know , cos there were n't any , many people around and so we had quite a nice lunch and erm whilst we were there we then had a drink in er in the bar and erm her the , the secretary of the club , a lady , came to talk to Barbara and she mentioned that she 'd seen her on Blind Date you see , and so I got to know more by listening to them two speaking er and er that 's where I learnt about er that . |
| 9 | From the age of 22 she had cut herself on many occasions . |
| 10 | But she had earned them on sheer merit . |
| 11 | there was about twenty cards and you had to name everything that was on it , order everything , like you usually go , erm that 's it or something and erm you have to learn it in the MAs and MEs and things and all that and then she showed you and you had to take everything on that |
| 12 | But , altogether yo , er sorry , you wanted to say something on that ? |
| 13 | We never did persuade them , but for six valuable hours we managed to hold them on that course far out into the Flores Sea , until finally they came to their senses , noticed the distant and almost invisible shore , and hurriedly tacked towards it again . |
| 14 | But as they started to grill him on such matters as his attitude to South Africa and Northern Ireland , it was his actions , not his befuddled replies , which riveted the panel 's attention . |
| 15 | When they did bestir themselves on rare occasions , as in 1917 , but more slowly than any other group , they could read plainly Christian meanings into Bolshevik slogans such as ‘ universal peace ’ and ‘ if any would not work , neither should he eat ’ . |
| 16 | They had to revise everything on worldwide currencies , capitals , flags , rivers , national monuments etc . |
| 17 | and er that may sound er a bit exaggerated but I can assure you that 's what happened , that er , to go to , to be able to file these , these little scraps of paper they had to stick it on another sheet |
| 18 | ‘ But when it was finished , they refused to show it on any of their ships . |
| 19 | His car was still outside ; it was the open-top Volkswagen Beetle he 'd bought himself on that first day straight from the showroom window . |
| 20 | God in heaven , he seemed to do nothing on this job but envy Boxer and his easy role . |
| 21 | He seemed to resent them on that occasion and will not wear them today . |
| 22 | He seemed to resent them on that occasion and will not wear them today |
| 23 | When , for example , Myra played disappointingly in the Scottish Girls ' after having made so big an impact at the Scottish Championship at Lossiemouth , he had to take her on one side and explain that she was far too exhausted , physically , to be able to give of her best : " I told her that she had to learn to pace herself and decide which tournaments she felt to be important . " |
| 24 | Over the past few years , since she had broken off her engagement to Jean-Paul , he had seen her on various occasions — at balls in London , or at country-house weekends once at Christian Glendinning 's parents ' house , but they had spoken only briefly . |
| 25 | She shook her head in exasperation , remembering his deception and total lack of sympathy , the way he had treated her on that first night , that following morning . |
| 26 | None of the bargeowners could afford to waste electricity , and the display was really intended for much later at night , but he had turned it on early to surprise and please them . |
| 27 | He had done it on one of the western stretches of the Central Line from North Acton to Ealing Broadway , a rather more hair-raising experience than this . |
| 28 | But he had to keep us on that . |