Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I stayed on a few weeks and erm then I went back to London |
| 2 | So I settled on a fine bouclé in a tan colour and an equally fine yarn with a slight ‘ whisker ’ in cream . |
| 3 | So I reckoned on a quick Sunday journey out to Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | So she embarked on a four-month programme of erotic self-education and yoga . |
| 5 | So we embarked on a different commercial strategy , trying to implement that that lesson . |
| 6 | So we decided on a special release pattern — an opening in New York a couple of months before any place else , play-off in small theatres with long engagements , letting word of mouth build an audience . ’ |
| 7 | Initially reluctant to tackle the area of post-war policy ( doubtless with thoughts of Lloyd George 's empty words of a quarter-century previously ) , when he did so he insisted on a full-blooded promise over the opposition of many in his party and administration . |
| 8 | Finally it fixed on a black sword thrust straight through the branch above Rincewind 's head . |
| 9 | Although she put them firmly into the category of ‘ workers ’ , rather than ‘ idlers ’ , and therefore to be praised , they were not quite on a par with the Welsh factory workers , or designers ; nonetheless they stood on a higher plane than accountants , clerks or corporate planners . |
| 10 | Luckily they hit on a nice policewoman who more or less had to throw the teacher out , she was so insistent and heavy . |
| 11 | Eventually he decided on a temporary surrender . |
| 12 | From there she went on a punishing schedule of visits to the US , Scandinavia and Japan before returning to Australia , which still remains very much her home . |
| 13 | For example , what would the courts do if Party A obtaining 40 per cent of the vote gained 60 per cent of the seats in the legislature because the remaining 60 per cent of the vote was split between three other parties , and then it embarked on a legislative programme which was discriminatory , anti-libertarian and anti-democratic ? |
| 14 | Then it focused on a wide plastic tray by Masklin . |
| 15 | Then he pulled on a well-worn jacket of aerated leather and strolled out of the flat , with Tal in a box on one shoulder and a duffel over the other . |
| 16 | Of course it 's a great challenge , but you can end up losing your own personality , because you 've got to ‘ be ’ somebody else if you 're playing these old songs , or maybe just following someone else who played on a particular album … ’ |