Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he stepped on a landmine of some sort . ’ |
| 2 | Tony and I embarked on a consideration of Child Benefit but before many minutes had gone by a note was sent in informing us that Peter Carrington had resigned . |
| 3 | and I walked on a couple , two or three and picked up this bloody carton out of the road and I was right next to Linda 's car |
| 4 | Yeah cos I went in that shop and I put on a size ten skirt and it was hanging . |
| 5 | I always cleanse , tone and moisturise and I put on a face masque every week . |
| 6 | Perhaps he heard , I do n't know , but he did n't look up and I sat on a stool near the door until it was finished . |
| 7 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 8 | You see the area and I did on a bicycle you know . |
| 9 | Erm Mr Chairman on a point of information , the figures he has obtained on my figures are figures in a report issued by the director of social services and I think on a point of information he should acknowledge that they are the figures given by the officers . |
| 10 | This adds up to a very substantial collection , and I hope before too long we may find another set with the Organ and Piano Concertos , along with Prêtre 's recordings of the Gloria and Stabat Mater ( the earlier one with Régine Crespin ) and the almost unknown Sept Responses des Ténèbres , a simply glorious choral and orchestral piece with Prêtre recorded in 1983 and which appeared on a Pathé Marconi LP in 1984 . |
| 11 | I came on a train here today from London in South Africa if you are black and you got on a train it would n't be as comfortable and there would be crowds in it but you would n't know whether you reached the other end because at some station a group of people would get on and shoot you indiscriminately , and get off again leaving that scene of massacre . |
| 12 | and you insist on a VAT receipt |
| 13 | And she went on a party of three , no , no , she went with a party of four friends I think , there were five of them altogether and er she stayed for well er , three nights , four days , or four days , three nights I ca n't remember no , it must have been four days , four nights , three days . |
| 14 | Graham felt that this sent a powerful if implicit message to school students that men were more important than women , and she embarked on a project to make a less biased , more representative dictionary . |
| 15 | He left the room and she tugged on a sweater and put the jacket back on just as he came back in . |
| 16 | It was cooler tonight than it had been of late , besides which she no longer dared to sleep in her underwear , and she pulled on a shortie nightshirt , a farewell present from her brothers . |
| 17 | A set of surgical tools and syringes lay on the white-sheeted top , and she focused on a scalpel with a small but wickedly sharp blade . |
| 18 | It took some time to get entry , there were delays , long sessions of questioning and trouble with certificates but in the end it was sorted out and we got on a plane in April 1974 . |
| 19 | The journey there was uneventful and we sat on a seat in the Market Place to eat our sandwiches . |
| 20 | The charitable world as a whole , as I 'm sure many of you know , has been severely hit by the recession er our donations received this year are dramatically down on last year 's and we operate on a shoestring but the provision of teams to go round the world , the provision of training , even with all the help we get from the R Y A still costs a lot of money . |
| 21 | John , my husband , volunteered to clip him ( to be honest , maybe I volunteered him ! ) and we decided on a blanket clip . |
| 22 | The difference between a document created by placing elements on a page and one created on a grid is subtle but significant . |
| 23 | During his visit , he and Sadat prayed together in the Nasr ( Victory ) mosque and they went on a cruise around the islands of the Nile . |
| 24 | There can be the desperate feeling that life has passed them by , and they stand on a precipice , wondering whether to jump into the arms of the first person who offers , or risk endless loneliness. , |
| 25 | And they start on a Monday and they had it finished by Tuesday and then they start on Wednesday and Thursday and and then they went on Friday and Saturday . |
| 26 | His eyes were wild , and he blew on a hunting horn . |
| 27 | He was dressed Yek style in a loose tunic and breeches , and he had on a surcoat which was stiff with gold embroidery . |
| 28 | This incident finally convinced Charles that he should abandon his efforts to work with parliament , and he embarked on a period of personal rule , which lasted until 1640 . |
| 29 | And he looked on a list he had and he put seven something . |
| 30 | So he 's walking down the street , trying ah , trying ah to get his mind off this and he gets on a train . |