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

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1 I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma .
2 Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National .
3 One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us .
4 In my maths in school we just finished them on the last day .
5 ‘ Like it ? ’ asked Sergeant , who had dashed round through the gate and now welcomed them on the other side .
6 I still ca n't quite believe how successful Neighbours has become — particularly as the Beeb originally bought it on the cheap just to fill part of their new ‘ Daytime ’ schedule .
7 It was a great day , and best of all we even made it on the nine , on the six o'clock news .
8 Today had her on the front page , in full colour .
9 Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) .
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