Example sentences of "[vb past] on [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local residents can be helpful , as Allen Watkins found on his first ley walk . |
| 2 | Yesterday , in Pittsburgh , she tried on her new school uniform for the first time but she was not too happy about the tie . |
| 3 | She had showered and washed her hair , dabbed on her favourite Anaïs Anaïs , and stood before the long mirror in her bedroom , criticising her reflection . |
| 4 | THUGS attacked and robbed a young cancer victim as he played on his new mountain bike . |
| 5 | In 1886 he came on his last lecture tour , managed by Pond , and at the invitation of Parker . |
| 6 | And then in the second half , Town turned on their new scoring machine to make sure of victory . |
| 7 | But David Pratt , photographer , has gone off it since he travelled half way round the world 's trouble spots unscathed to be battered and mugged on his own Glasgow south side doorstep . |
| 8 | Likewise , leasing companies were unlikely to be able to retain more than one third of the aircraft they ordered on their own balance sheets . |
| 9 | Otley then decided he had better take the venison back to Claro before the community constable went on his early morning rounds . |
| 10 | On Sunday we went on our 2nd sight-seeing trip , to Huaching Hot Springs , a historic ‘ spa ’ patronised by emperors in the old days when Sian was the capital of China . |
| 11 | On May 26 — The Tuesday Club 's 12th birthday — we went on our annual ccoach trip . |
| 12 | Can you remember when we went on our first aid course ? |
| 13 | Until 1975 , for each week during which you earned more than a minimum amount , a stamp went on your national insurance card . |
| 14 | Like one that on a lonesome road doth walk in fear and dread , Tasha sang on her Ancient Mariner Mambo album , and having once turned round walks on , and turns no more his head ; because he knows a frightful fiend doth close behind him tread . |
| 15 | ‘ Without them it would n't have been possible , ’ swooned the ebony-tressed editrice as she eased on her crushed-velvet vermilion robes . |
| 16 | That would give the electricity supply industry the free run of the distribution network , while consumers could signal in any way they liked on their own mains wiring without bothering anyone . |
| 17 | I know Switzerland well , or did on my own time track . |
| 18 | As I let her in , she put on her best funeral face . |
| 19 | She put on her prettiest night dress , and took longer than usual to brush her hair ; she put a dab of perfume behind her ears — on her neck — between her breasts . |
| 20 | Slightly late in the day ( it started at the end of January 1990 ) , the BBC put on its own Sunday programme . |
| 21 | She showered , quickly slipped on her black wool frock , a string of pearls . |
| 22 | Sir Robert Muldoon , the former National Party leader and Prime Minister in 1975-84 , condemned the government 's welfare cuts and said on his weekly radio programme on Nov. 17 that he would leave Parliament ( where he had represented an Auckland constituency for over 30 years ) early in 1992 . |
| 23 | Gunnerside lay dozing in the Sunday sunshine and the new-mown fields patching the valley towards Muker had on their best Sunday golden-green . |
| 24 | Victoria had on her nice towelling bib with a green frog on it but seemed subdued by the ceremonial atmosphere surrounding the meal : the gong and the shouting ; for she was unusually subdued , thank God . |
| 25 | But Bassett reflected on his early management days in charge of Vinny Jones and Co at Wimbledon . |
| 26 | Sun , he says , ‘ sat on its remote procedure call laurels too long and did n't advance its Open Network Computing technology until OSF started talking about DCE . ’ |
| 27 | At one point they were thought to look peaky so each was given a bottle of Guinness and some oysters and they sat on their little iron beds scoffing them . |
| 28 | The sunlight glinted on his discreet SDP lapel-badge . |