Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 2 | I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside . |
| 3 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 4 | However , I find yoga a bit slow and I like to exercise to music , so I moved on to popmobility-type aerobics which I named ‘ slimobility ’ . |
| 5 | One possible reason for its comparative success , and one which I stumbled on in all innocence at that time , was that its subject and setting were limited . |
| 6 | Throughout the whole process I looked on in wronged silence , like a wife . |
| 7 | The next night I went on without Dutch courage and flattened a drunken heckler with a couple of speedy put-downs that came from nowhere ( 't was I , your valiant defence mechanism again ) and a new career was born . |
| 8 | But I went on to bigger clubs . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , when I went on to high school , I moved over to '70s American stuff — Television , The dB 's , Richard Hell And The Voidoids , Alex Chilton and Big Star . |
| 10 | I went on in this fashion for some while . |
| 11 | Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations . |
| 12 | She grumbled on in this vein as she prepared the food and I ran about as the scullion . |
| 13 | ‘ Next question , ’ she moved on with wan humour . |
| 14 | But I , I liked the the first outfit she came on with that sash wrapped round her |
| 15 | Now , I 've got plans , and I hoped I could bring those about while you screwed on with this cockamamy set up . |
| 16 | She hung on for two years , existing on fees for supervising undergraduates and an allowance from her father . |
| 17 | Yeah , but she hung on like blue death ! |
| 18 | Suddenly she was in shadow and only the upper sky was lit with fingers of smoky orange and then an acid burnt lemon from the disappeared orb , but she walked on round unfamiliar roads in what was rapidly becoming dusk . |
| 19 | And with the vague , uneasy sense that , having forced the door open a little way , the country on the other side might prove a lot stranger than she 'd ever imagined , she walked on in subdued silence for a while . ) |
| 20 | ‘ You hung on for twelve years . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And so you signed on with International Models ? ’ |
| 22 | She stumbled on in this manner for some time before I talked her into accepting a chair and a cuppa . |
| 23 | And you went on to these chairs and you went through a , a scenic part which showed you the roads of the future . |
| 24 | She went on to 16th place , the winner being Josefa Idem of Italy . |
| 25 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 26 | She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack . |
| 27 | She carried on at some length , and felt better for it afterwards . |
| 28 | He asked after Fred 's new play and she ran on with unconvincing enthusiasm about a young actress who was going to be in it . |
| 29 | ‘ Perhaps even die , ’ she tacked on for good measure . |
| 30 | She held on to twenty years of him . |