Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I sat on this stool thing and Marie pulled the curtain and the light flashed twice and then Marie leaps in and sits on my lap , and it flashes again . |
| 2 | The R/T was bad and I thought he said ‘ below you ’ so I concentrated on that section of the sky almost exclusively , leaving it to Dick to watch above us . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , then your outraged mother leapt into the car which was loaded with our luggage because we intended to be off to Urbino that morning , and apparently she decided on some kind of hara-kiri or felo de se , a consummation of our marriage devoutly to be wished but never performed . |
| 4 | Timidly she tacked on another question that bothered her . |
| 5 | So she scored on that line . |
| 6 | So we got on that bus , and he did n't like it , this bus driver , oh , you 're not supposed to be on here |
| 7 | So we sat on this row and it was Paul and his young lady and David all in the row with us . |
| 8 | So we arrived on good time , Mala and I , was pleased that in a new hairpiece and fresh clothes — a long sleeved short-robe over loose trousers and soft boots , in shades of chartreuse and cinnamon — my injuries did n't show at all . |
| 9 | So he plastered on pink paint — but forgot to get planning permission first . |
| 10 | So he plastered on pink paint — but forgot to get planning permission first . |
| 11 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |
| 12 | As a matter of fact that is exactly what happened on this planet , and we ourselves are among the most recent , if not the strangest and most wonderful , of those consequences . |
| 13 | Eventually she settled on one property at the junction of the Lambeth and Kennington roads , where she built ‘ model dwellings for working folk ’ and maintained an office , home , and headquarters until her death thirty years later , never marrying but working constantly with her sisters Ellen and Eliza on local improvement schemes . |
| 14 | Quickly she put on lacy underwear and pulled her best dress from the wardrobe , a cocktail-length skirt of full , flame-coloured taffeta topped by a portrait-necked bodice of black velvet . |
| 15 | Two days later we went on another beat , this time for panther , but the panther broke back and we never saw it . |
| 16 | Well she went on sick leave for a long time |
| 17 | And here she stayed on public display until 1868 when it was decided not only to close the museum but also to lay Hannah Beswick to rest . |
| 18 | ‘ Long ago we depended on each other . |
| 19 | Well he said on that tape , I gave them a fat cheque of six thousand pounds . |
| 20 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 21 | Then she began on another tack . |
| 22 | Then it started on Cumbrian limestone , blossomed to Lakeland quarries and so , finally , to Raven Crag . |
| 23 | Then he served on several Government committees of enquiry or review as well as engaging in a little more political manoeuvring than had been his habit . |
| 24 | Next he jumped in the air with his feet together and his knees bent , then he knelt on one knee while she leapt into the air . |