Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] on [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially she worked on fairly traditional landscapes in oils , but as familiarity with French life and confidence in her own work has grown , so too has the scale and colour of her work . |
| 2 | She is to be congratulated on the beauty of the pictures , the wealth of information she imparted on so many aspects and the most comprehensive display of books and articles created by Shetlanders . |
| 3 | We took on here last March . |
| 4 | ‘ We parted on rather poor terms , ’ she said lightly . |
| 5 | If the origin of life is such an improbable event that it happened on only one planet in the universe , then our planet has to be that planet . |
| 6 | In Neugebauer 's view , it originated on purely practical grounds by continual observation and averaging of the time intervals between successive arrivals of the Nile flood at Heliopolis , the rising of the Nile being the main event in Egyptian life . |
| 7 | The train drew in to Penn Station with the arguments still raging round Uncle Mick 's grizzled head , but that head was still unbowed and at one time Denis was sure he saw a wink in the wicked old eye as he took on about three arguments at once and lost all of them . |
| 8 | I hit the central barrier and he went on about fifty yards while I ended up on the hard shoulder |
| 9 | No , no it was n't he put on too many weights sunshine |
| 10 | , Jonathan ( 1690 ? –1747 ) , mathematical instrument-maker , born perhaps in 1690 , went to London from Lincolnshire and was established in a workshop on the corner of Beaufort Buildings in the Strand by 1722 , probably having worked for George Graham [ q.v. ] , with whom he remained on very close terms . |