Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | English-born , actually , and we got on like a house on fire . |
| 2 | They got on like a house on fire and did n't stop talking afterwards — it was Julian and Robert who wound each other up . |
| 3 | We got on like a house on fire . |
| 4 | Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe . |
| 5 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 6 | Then they built a sand-castle with ramparts and a moat and turrets , and stopped off at a café on their way home and treated themselves to a delicious cream tea . |
| 7 | The wide river narrowed abruptly with a notice on our left saying DANGER in huge letters , and a smaller notice saying LOCK with an arrow to the right . |
| 8 | The group , which included some 30 journalists , media teachers and lawyers from throughout Africa , came together for a seminar on ‘ The African Charter on Human and People 's Rights and its Impact on Communication Policy and Practice ’ . |
| 9 | The group , which included some 30 journalists , media teachers and lawyers from throughout Africa , came together for a seminar on ‘ The African Charter on Human and People 's Rights and its Impact on Communication Policy and Practice ’ . |
| 10 | And half these buggers would n't recognize him if he came in with a label on Rugby supporters , pah ! |
| 11 | POLICE were today examining an arms find after a car turned back and drove off from a checkpoint on the outskirts of Belfast last night . |
| 12 | Pupils would no doubt be intrigued to learn how the milk-can was used to fetch milk from the farm , or filled up from a churn on the milkman 's cart . |
| 13 | If Anne reminded me of a gazelle , then Mrs. Constantine was like a snake : supple and seemingly without bones , smooth , lustrous , with wicked black eyes like stones and shining black hair twisted up into a knot on top of her head and a wide , wide mouth with disturbingly red lips and a flickering tongue that darted out to lick the crimson lips when she was concentrating on the cards . |
| 14 | Whatever else he does , Sandy Lyle will be remembered for the shot he played out of a bunker on the 18th in 1988 -150 yards to the pin . |
| 15 | An Indian wearing a turban came out of a door on the half landing and , with a slight bow , waited for her to pass . |
| 16 | The initiative for the women 's group came out of a seminar on ‘ Women and Mass Media ’ , which was organised by the Joint Women 's Programme , 22–24 August . |
| 17 | But Paul Wright played almost as a midfielder on Saturday , and McClelland was not happy with Paul Kinnaird 's return to Firhill . |
| 18 | Then they were plunging into shadow between the woods of Birnam , hauled along like a leaf on a mill-race , and the hedges and trees never ceased to rock backwards past their staring eyes or the horses to gallop onwards with shoulders working and manes streaming until they were in sight of Perth . |
| 19 | The free weekly magazines sent to doctors financed by drug advertisements joined in with a vengeance on the lines that ‘ Fowler 's drug list ends prescribing freedom ’ . |
| 20 | nipples ripped off by a doberman on acid ? |
| 21 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 22 | I nodded — and several thoughts arrived simultaneously in a rush on my mental doorstep . |
| 23 | Meredith , stranded inelegantly with a foot on the wooden step and the other leg half over the topmost bar , said crossly , ‘ I can see it . ’ |
| 24 | He had quite a cheerful blaze going by the time she came back , with an armful of twigs and berries which she arranged artistically in a vase on the table . |
| 25 | Jack calmly walked up to a stranger on a bench and asked : ‘ Can I borrow a fag ? ’ |
| 26 | With many years of experience , Eddie handled each situation as exampled in the last call of the day at Carpetwise , when Dave Walker , the proprietor jokingly strangled Eddie because of a delivery problem This was instantly resolved by a telephone call to head office and followed up with a discussion on the test marketing of Stoddard Templeton 's new fabric venture . |
| 27 | I finished up with a hand on her breast and my face within inches of hers . |
| 28 | Janet posted a letter for me last week to a friend who I worked with at Ipswich , she was one of the girls behind the counter and at the moment they , her and her husband , he , he , he , he was on the , he finished up but he started as a lad in the kitchen but he finished up as a chef on the dining cars and they married and er and they 've got er two children erm they 're married to and , and we kept , we 've kept in touch with each other for sixty years |
| 29 | When Boy George first skipped on stage caked in make-up singing ‘ Do You Really Want To Hurt Me ? ’ ten years ago , he stuck out like a fairy on a rather drab Christmas tree . |
| 30 | At this party , I rushed around like a student on the last day of school , confronting over and over again people 's incredulity and dismay at my impending departure , assuring them that I could n't believe I was leaving , exchanging addresses and agreeing to keep in touch until the end of time . |