Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] on that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dined out on that one for quite a while , but have not had occasion to be offered cream coronets of late . |
| 2 | We bounced round on that pallet bed , so much laughing and shouting that the landlord came up . |
| 3 | So Ariel kept vigil as the night came down on that day nearly four hundred years ago , when everything changed for them . |
| 4 | Anyway , Davy came along and Steve Marriot also came along on that day , because quite a few people heard about it , as we put the word out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street . |
| 5 | Indeed , many of the homes said that the fees from supplementary benefit were so adequate that the people who came in on that ticket were given some of the best accommodation in the establishment . |
| 6 | And then , on the verge of sleep , she was crashing with him through the bushes of that dreadful wood , feeling the briars scratching her legs , the low twigs whipping against her cheeks , staring with him as the pool of light from the torch shone down on that grotesque and mutilated face . |
| 7 | Vincente seemed a pleasant enough bloke when he turned up on that first morning . |
| 8 | Perhaps it was the lack of trees to soften its outline , or the dark stare of its latticed windows that gave it such an austere look ; but whatever it was , uninvited visitors were a rarity , so that when Amyas Roscarrock rode up on that showery day in July , his arrival attracted immediate interest among the family . |
| 9 | I , standing on my tiptoes I could n't see out the window to , to look out to the stage erm , and there was a huge step up , it was about that , which was great for people 's bad backs and if you got up on that , erm then you sat on top of a very high cocktail chair , in fact one of our people had to kneel on top of the high cocktail chair , to look , to see down , over the window , down to the stage and they did n't give us a sound feed which would sound familiar |
| 10 | and then she got up on that |
| 11 | Good horses they bred down on that road you know . |
| 12 | I touched down on that planet during my homing , and all that remains of that great civilization , dear friends , are mountains of empty drink cans and a carpet of potato-chip packets . |
| 13 | I actually felt when we walked out on that stage that we might be able to meet the challenge . |
| 14 | With an inconvenient house and stuck out on that headland with nothing to look at but a ruined abbey and that atomic power station they 'll have to put up with what they can get . ’ |
| 15 | He walks round the streets he walked round on that first morning . |
| 16 | Word got out on that , and they were prevented from getting onto the market . |
| 17 | And I said they will require cover for their breaks he fell down on that one , he does n't think those two days . |
| 18 | I think mostly erm , I think that the audits have gone erm , very well actually erm , people are following the procedures and they are at times , they are a little bit slipping up erm , enquiries seem to be an area and filling in the enquiry form properly and making sure that it is copied to the divisional enquiry file erm , a few people fell down on that erm , but in most cases the procedures were followed virtually to a letter . |
| 19 | I decided doubles was getting short-shrifted so went off on that tangent . |
| 20 | On the first occasion a violent thunderstorm blew up on that beautiful summer day , wrecking any attempt at further recording and causing damage to the equipment . |
| 21 | Either way , in later life he looked back on that experience as evidence that dancing could be part of everyday life in a way that it is not for most Europeans . |
| 22 | But he gave up on that to tell us this — things ai n't a patch on what they used to be . |
| 23 | She examined her hands , white with chalk , as if looking for the source of some small pain , then gave up on that and began to dust herself down . |
| 24 | Miguel saw that he was getting nowhere , and gave up on that topic . |
| 25 | Oh you gave up on that ? |
| 26 | I slipped up on that chess one I got the black and white one |
| 27 | Tightened up on that , have n't they ? |
| 28 | Snuggled up on that blanket , little un . |
| 29 | Interesting that you picked up on that one . |
| 30 | Monsoon picked up on that . |