Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . |
| 2 | The headmaster was getting a little too close to the bone for my liking , so I decided to go on the defensive . |
| 3 | As I was ushered into Mark Shand 's spacious flat in South Kensington I saw lying on the living table a book called Living Dangerously . |
| 4 | I chose to write on the Holy Spirit myself for a very definite reason . |
| 5 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 6 | Until now , I had looked on the legendary Frankenstein as a sort of piece-meal dabbler in cadavers , a small-time crank who haunted crypts and graves for mismatched eyes and hands . |
| 7 | But I had left on the five o'clock train . ’ |
| 8 | Well to keep his rope tight , I had to pull on the other , and the other chap would jerk me back . |
| 9 | Faith , her boyfriend and I waited to ride on the same flight as the box . |
| 10 | That second night in the porch was enough and I resolved to move on the following day , whatever happened . |
| 11 | When I was due to arrive in Tasmania to stay with a geologist colleague , Penny Green , you can imagine that I was n't too displeased when I was asked if I minded going on the odd fishing trip as the whole family was ’ into ’ it ! |
| 12 | At first you seemed to concentrate on the later works , the Fourth Symphony onwards . |
| 13 | She rang the number she 'd seen on the underground and went to the address they told her . |
| 14 | It was the decision she 'd made on the silent journey back to the hotel , and one she intended to keep . |
| 15 | She 'd sat on the stubby grass , cut short as the back of a soldier 's head . |
| 16 | She adored working on the million pound project which was predicted would rival Paul Hogan 's Crocodile Dundee smashes . |
| 17 | She decided to look on the positive side . |
| 18 | Her lovely face came before his eyes and he thought how beautifully she had played on the few occasions she had come down here with him . |
| 19 | When the fear eased , she had banged on the locked wooden door , but there had been no response , apart from the laughter of the guards who were stationed on the other side . |
| 20 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 21 | She thought with a rush of gratitude of the letter she had had from Gay , in answer to the one she had written on the first night of the holidays . |
| 22 | Her desires were my only hold over her , so despite her frantic pleas I refused to go any further than finger-fucking until she had signed on the dotted line . |
| 23 | He had absolutely , however , set his face against accepting help from Ruby Dobby although she had arrived on the second floor that morning full of promises if not promise . |
| 24 | She had smiled on the new young courtier , and she had helped him , and he had been fascinated by her , for although she was ageing , there were still easily discernible traces of the famous beauty who had led armies into battle and lovers into bed ; who had brought Ireland to the brink of something so truly great that its fame would echo down the centuries . |
| 25 | When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not . |
| 26 | We both had large appetites and although we tried to get on the same table at mealtimes so that we could monopolise the food , we were permanently hungry . |
| 27 | ‘ But we seemed to concentrate on the economic effects of the Industrial Revolution , and stuff like that . |
| 28 | The path seemed to be washed away in places , so better safe than sorry , we decided to stay on the upper path . |
| 29 | It was he who taught some of us how to use a .38 calibre revolver when we went hiking on the rolling prairies for shooting competitions , with gophers or tin cans as our main targets . |
| 30 | So we continued to meet on the sly . |