Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did n't intend to have a five-piece group so we played with Craig and , in the meantime , Andy returned and we 'd gotten on so well with him that we decided to continue as a five-piece … |
| 2 | I seemed to recall that in the past when we 'd met we 'd got on reasonably well , so I assumed that it must have been something that Jennifer had told you that had turned you against me , or , failing that , that you were just embarrassed at having to work with your sister 's ex-fiancé . ’ |
| 3 | They 'd been friends , companions , they 'd got on well together , but , now that she knew what real love was , she knew that she had never for one moment loved him . |
| 4 | I listened with fascination to this insider viewpoint , and the moody Miss Brickell suddenly became a real person , not a pathetic collection of dry bones , but a mixed-up pulsating young woman full of strong urges and stronger guilts who 'd piled on too much pressure , loaded her need of penitence and her heavy desires and perhaps finally her pregnancy onto someone who could n't bear it all , and who 'd seen a violent way to escape her . |
| 5 | We pioneered the technique well before it became used on so large a scale by giants like American Express and Reader 's Digest . |
| 6 | The small stout man had marched on ahead , and was now humming happily to himself . |
| 7 | He was still driving for the McLaren team , this time with the amiable German Jochen Mass , but the team had fallen on relatively lean times , and Emerson , a man short on patience and long on a sense of his own worth — and with two championships to his name — was a sometimes angry and often frustrated man . |
| 8 | Even awake I feel that if I had sat on there , I might have kept it forever . |
| 9 | Johnson had come on tremendously under his coach Charlie Francis since winning the 100 metres silver medal in Brisbane . |
| 10 | While they were in the pub , in a corner far from a window , the rain had come on heavily , the kind of rain that will soak you to the skin in two minutes . |
| 11 | Rose was unable to do much when she was discharged from hospital after four months , but she assumed she would recover all of a sudden , because her illness had come on so suddenly . |
| 12 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 13 | Since then , he and his mum had struggled on together in Oxford where she had worked as a secretary in the Austin plant and had met Ken , a big , happy-go-lucky but ambitious bear of a man . |
| 14 | Just as he had done on over 100 occasions during the previous three years , the seller sold some animal food to the buyer . |
| 15 | His quiet reproaches , as I had felt on more than one occasion , were all the more devastating . |
| 16 | He had threatened on more than one occasion to reveal details of their love-making to Stephen . |
| 17 | She herself had moved on swiftly , anxious not to be recognized or to seem a spy . |
| 18 | The twentieth century had moved on more rapidly than many intellectuals had realized . |
| 19 | As Acheson had remarked in 1952 , the world had moved on too far for Churchill and Eden to try to revive the sort of personal ties which had existed with President Roosevelt during the Second World War — this would be " a classical example of the wrong way to do things " . |
| 20 | For this study recurrent intestinal pain was defined as abdominal pain that had occurred on more than six days in the past year and was relieved by defecation or whose onset was associated with more frequent or looser stools . |
| 21 | Persian bureaucracy was still tiny and the Cadgers had embarked on almost no public works . |
| 22 | Inevitably , such paper tigers had no effect on men who had embarked on so desperate a venture , especially when they had never paid more than lip-service to the authority of the Republican politicians . |
| 23 | A DIRECTOR of a leading Edinburgh stockbroker told an insider dealing trial yesterday how his firm had acted on allegedly confidential information about a Scottish company by selling 1.8 million of its shares . |
| 24 | This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff . |
| 25 | Yet I had met Margot and Allan in 1984 and had got on well with them . |
| 26 | As we drank our coffee I outlined Toby 's and my suspicions about Martinez and Jefferson , and I asked Sally whether she had got on well enough with Ed Grainger , who was Martinez' right-hand man in America , to ask him questions about the Harley contract . |
| 27 | Dan had got on well with the husband , but the wife 's cool voice and expensive clothes had made her excessively conscious of her shining face and raw skin . |
| 28 | They had never been close friends but they had got on well ; lately , however , a gap had opened . |
| 29 | All 26 members of the Irish squad had got on superbly , just like a club side . |
| 30 | The ticket woman and I had got on famously . |