Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv prt] 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 plonked down on the hard wooden sofa and began musing : was he telling the truth ? |
| 8 | I popped out on the sixth-floor roof and had a cigarette . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 11 | I lay back on the hot canvas of a recliner and closed my eyes , soaking it in . |
| 12 | I lay back on the empty bed and looked at my watch . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I lay down on the Pennine moors |
| 15 | I leaned back on the young tree that as a sapling had been the Killer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I sat down on the only patch of turf |
| 18 | I sat down on the wooden bed . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So was it very surprising that I picked up on the African presence moving around the island ? |
| 21 | I missed out on the two games against Lyngby and the first leg against Leeds . |
| 22 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |
| 23 | I missed out on the Welsh match , so you might think this is sour grapes . |
| 24 | I ended up on the front fucking wheels of a pushbike |
| 25 | I hit the central barrier and he went on about fifty yards while I ended up on the hard shoulder |
| 26 | She would n't be a real Brownie if she flew home and left them stranded out on the snowy woods . |
| 27 | Even a piece of her mind could cost you dearly if you got on on the wrong side of her . |
| 28 | PS Sorry you got off on the wrong foot with the new commander . |
| 29 | There was a lump in her throat as she gazed down on the gaunt features . |
| 30 | She bore down on the surprised Jane like a galleon in full sail and demanded , imperiously , what she intended to ‘ do ’ with the house . |