Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] on the [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 ‘ I 'm happy ’ , ‘ I 'm settled ’ , ‘ Now I know what it feels like ’ , ‘ I got out on the right side ’ .
5 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 ’ .
6 The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there .
7 I recall that my right hon. Friend and I campaigned together on the same side in favour of a ’ yes ’ vote in the 1975 referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Community .
8 I plonked down on the hard wooden sofa and began musing : was he telling the truth ?
9 I knocked anxiously on the wooden door and waited patiently until the door opened and a small , plump , bearded man greeted me with a cheery hello .
10 I popped out on the sixth-floor roof and had a cigarette . ’
11 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 .
12 Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion .
13 I lay back on the hot canvas of a recliner and closed my eyes , soaking it in .
14 I lay back on the empty bed and looked at my watch .
15 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 .
16 I lay down on the Pennine moors
17 I leaned back on the young tree that as a sapling had been the Killer .
18 I said well on the hard shoulder , I said , you ca n't stop nowhere else .
19 In her own words : ‘ I left home on the 9.30 a.m. train to attend a Medau class in London , travelled across to Balham in time for music , followed by the evening of training , then still in track suit back to Paddington for the 10.30 p.m. train , arriving home at 1 or 2 a.m. the next day .
20 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 .
21 I sat down on the only patch of turf
22 I sat down on the wooden bed .
23 Way back in 1957 I had talked my boss into allowing me to learn to fly helicopters with the British European Airways Helicopter Unit at Gatwick and in 1960 I sat in on the first ground school course BOAC conducted for their senior captains converting to the first Boeing 707s .
24 So was it very surprising that I picked up on the African presence moving around the island ?
25 I missed out on the two games against Lyngby and the first leg against Leeds .
26 ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added .
27 I missed out on the Welsh match , so you might think this is sour grapes .
28 I ended up on the front fucking wheels of a pushbike
29 I hit the central barrier and he went on about fifty yards while I ended up on the hard shoulder
30 She would n't be a real Brownie if she flew home and left them stranded out on the snowy woods .
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