Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Last year I won the Julie Rose 10K in a time which was within 10 seconds of my track best for the season , which is indicative of how badly I ran on the track . |
| 2 | No , er , I , apparently I saw on the Teletext last night |
| 3 | one , and one was sitting on my fence , there , so I banged on the window and said get off the fence ! |
| 4 | ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’ |
| 5 | So I got on the Greyhound Bus for a six-hour ride to Washington and checked in at a cheap hotel opposite the bus depot . |
| 6 | So I worked on the farm with Mr and Mrs Parks . |
| 7 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 8 | I tried to rouse him but I could n't so I sat on the bed to pull my boots on and the next minute I , too , was asleep . ’ |
| 9 | So I turned on the TV to find the news , but they had n't found out who had been on board yet |
| 10 | So she tapped on the window . |
| 11 | So she lay on the floor and looked through the open door , into a beautiful garden with green trees and bright flowers . |
| 12 | So she lay on the floor in the shape of a cross , and prayed . |
| 13 | Jessie was already in bed but not asleep , and so she sat on the side of the bed and , her voice just a whisper , she said , ‘ Listen . ’ |
| 14 | So you cooked on the fire as well ? |
| 15 | So we went on the rampage . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | cos to be really eager because she said erm that she 'd asked the bloke about staying on permanently and everything and he said that it seemed the people who they were most impress impressed with after Christmas that can stay on permanently so we said on the end , you 've got ta be really eager and everything so she apparently was asking loads of questions |
| 18 | So we concentrated on the pleasure we could get for nothing . |
| 19 | So they sat on a blanket and clung to each other , tears streaming down their cheeks . |
| 20 | So they sat on the engine housing and Wycliffe felt sufficiently relaxed to light his pipe . |
| 21 | Brando brought Stanley Kubrick into the project as the film 's director and together they worked on the script for several months . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I might have got worn out , the number of miles we walked and bins we excavated , only he sat on every bench we came across and stared into space . |
| 24 | So he worked on the nocturne by day , mindful of the contradiction . |
| 25 | Oh yes oh well just ordinary country country days , just you worked on the farm . |
| 26 | It was a highly unpopular Act ; nevertheless it remained on the statute books until 1815 . |
| 27 | Wearily she put on the kettle for the tea . |
| 28 | It should be clear to anybody that the basic idea behind the prison system is corrupt and unjust , but the more I worked on the film , the more I understood how extreme the injustice was . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |