Example sentences of "[vb past] on some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We happened on some good 'uns , and we happened on some sort of funny ones when we goo round . |
| 2 | He was booted off and landed on some fencing , causing great damage to his testicular region . |
| 3 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , then your outraged mother leapt into the car which was loaded with our luggage because we intended to be off to Urbino that morning , and apparently she decided on some kind of hara-kiri or felo de se , a consummation of our marriage devoutly to be wished but never performed . |
| 5 | Brian Deane , elevated to the full England squad for Wednesday 's World Cup clash with San Marino , pounced on some dithering by Bruce to fire a shot that was narrowly deflected for a corner . |
| 6 | I lost it in 1963 on the A30 west of Salisbury when I skidded on some diesel oil and rolled over and over . |
| 7 | Yeah I got some work and me boys got on some post putting up , he said , but mind you , it might er dry up I do n't know , it looks a bit er , thick does n't it ? |
| 8 | The passages it cancelled had , in any case , as in certain programmes , not been lost but stored on some limbo disc from whence they must now be retrieved . |
| 9 | ‘ Better lay on some Fernet Branca for the morning , ’ said Dommie . |
| 10 | He went down to the docks to buy a lorryload of timber going cheaply , had the building sandblasted and refitted , and insisted on some adjustment of the merchandise to suit the customer profile . |
| 11 | ‘ She overdosed on some kind of speed . ’ |
| 12 | She put on some music while they ate and the conversation moved from the complexities of the dysfunctioning family to fertility rites to developing acting styles to the persistence of Aids to Harry Roy to the nature of joy to the repressiveness of English Fascism to the astrological outlook , and , finally to Lee , herself , to her tendency to withdraw from the group , but , ultimately , to her graciousness as their hostess and the deliciousness of her food . |
| 13 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 14 | Everyone stopped where they were and stared as she pointed dramatically at a dark green house plant which stood on some kind of plinth behind the seat she 'd been allocated . |
| 15 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 16 | This reinterpretation sets Keynes ' economics apart from the traditional equilibrium analysis of neo-classical theory which depended on some kind of tâtonnement process ( as described in Chapter 6 ) to ensure that all transactions took place in equilibrium . |