Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’ |
| 2 | So we proceeded on a cost plus basis , also the cost plus environment actually brings the partners together because if there are three of us working on a cost plus contract and I have a problem , my two partners rush to help me because clearly there 's some more profit for them , erm if the only difficulty with cost plus contract of course is that unless you have a a real ceiling on the total er costs that you 're going to pay , it may keep on rising far higher than you 'd ever imagined . |
| 3 | So they sat on a blanket and clung to each other , tears streaming down their cheeks . |
| 4 | There were pauses , then he banged the keys plaintively , going over the passages he had n't been able to get right , then suddenly he put on a record of the Chopin and played along with it , always two or three notes behind . |
| 5 | Trying to pull us both up short she started on a lecture on the foetal damage caused by nicotine , but neither of us was listening ; we were looking at a memory . |
| 6 | Yesterday we went on a trip round the city , first visiting some important finds unearthed from a tomb nearby , in the museum , then we went to the ‘ Little Goose Pagoda ’ built in the 8th cent . |
| 7 | Very often I dined on a banana split , which was enormous : it consisted of a whole banana , three scoops of ice cream , syrup and whipped cream and only cost 25 cents ; we also lived on delicatessen sandwiches and salads and were so excited with the automats where we put our money in and out popped coffee . |
| 8 | Eventually they agreed on an appointment at nine o'clock the next morning , but Indenbaum was still convinced that Modigliani would not turn up . |
| 9 | Just a few weeks ago she fell on a toy brick and sprained her foot badly ! |
| 10 | She said she 's just went on she go she a after your removal today she got on a boat at Southampton , and she 's on her way to Australia . |
| 11 | well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice |
| 12 | But then I thought on a while and raised my finger . |
| 13 | There I got on a bus that took me to Le Hospitalet près l'Andorre , and through the frontier post at Pas de la Casa , over the Envalira pass and down into a land whose mountainous beauty at once put me under a spell I shall never forget . |
| 14 | Another thing they all had were mussels , everywhere you looked on a breaker there were clusters of mussels . |
| 15 | Then she began on a list of words she liked , but all she could think of was ‘ fireplace ’ . |
| 16 | Then she hit on a buoyancy technique . |
| 17 | And then she started on a list of all my illnesses , accidents and crimes , while everybody except Joe looked at me with disgust . |
| 18 | Then we went on a nature ramble and we saw two men cows doing it . |
| 19 | So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern . |
| 20 | Then they wrote on a piece of paper : For Mrs Ransome for her birthday , with our love , and put it inside the box . |
| 21 | He stood over her for a moment , smiling gently , then he sat on a chair so that she did n't have to look up at him . |
| 22 | There he embarked on a study of nucleic acid synthesis with the twin objectives of seeking fundamental knowledge about the roles of pyrimidine and purine bases in growth , and of discovering new chemotherapeutic agents . |
| 23 | Instead he sat on a chair beside the bed and tried to cover Paula 's saucy black lace see-through dress with the sheets . |
| 24 | If she appeared simply as a woman , she would have been discarded and ignored , therefore she put on a disguise of a man , and fooled the court into accepting her case . |