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Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	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 .
5	So I worked on the farm with Mr and Mrs Parks .
6	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
7	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 . ’
8	So I turned on the TV to find the news , but they had n't found out who had been on board yet
9	So she tapped on the window .
10	So she lay on the floor and looked through the open door , into a beautiful garden with green trees and bright flowers .
11	So she lay on the floor in the shape of a cross , and prayed .
12	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 . ’
13	So you cooked on the fire as well ?
14	So we went on the rampage .
15	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
16	So we concentrated on the pleasure we could get for nothing .
17	So they sat on the engine housing and Wycliffe felt sufficiently relaxed to light his pipe .
18	Brando brought Stanley Kubrick into the project as the film 's director and together they worked on the script for several months .
19	So he worked on the nocturne by day , mindful of the contradiction .
20	Oh yes oh well just ordinary country country days , just you worked on the farm .
21	It was a highly unpopular Act ; nevertheless it remained on the statute books until 1815 .
22	Wearily she put on the kettle for the tea .
23	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 .
24	Our walks have been outstandingly enjoyable , and yesterday we walked on the estate which you and Bob pained when we went to the Crinan Canal .
25	We stayed that night in an empty holiday home we discovered on the edge of a village .
26	A few minutes later she appeared on the swimming-pool bridge , chatting coquettishly to a tall blond man .
27	But 12 minutes later he got on the end of a superb cross from Paul Dalton .
28	And about two minutes later he knocked on the door did n't he ?
29	But er , that 's a great advantage when compared with the newly appointed British Ambassador in Washington , who having just arrived in Washington , er picked up the telephone and heard a voice at the other end , say , what do you want for Christmas , it was just before Christmas , what do you want for Christmas , and he thought hastily and , did n't want to be impolite or too greedy , so he said a small box of crystallised fruit , and put the telephone down , and a few momen a few moments later he put on the radio , and the announcer said , we 've just conducted our normal review of the Ambassadors ' wishes for Christmas , er , the the Ambassadors in Washington .
30	Now we went on the attack .