Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't go in June with being full of cold , I just knocked on door and that got him out . |
| 2 | So , ’ he added with a slightly twisted smile , ‘ I just concentrated on business , and became even more of a workaholic than ever ! ’ |
| 3 | Ooh they sometimes used to get books or er they used to get some nice prizes you know , and books and er and that and er and when I was little I once went on stage for a in a skipping competition . |
| 4 | I always slept on board . |
| 5 | And I really felt on edge walking back |
| 6 | ‘ I then went on holiday by myself . ’ |
| 7 | But Merry crawled and got into the pigsty ; and I almost fell on top of him and slammed the door . |
| 8 | I said at the time that reports are ALWAYS one sided when the score is 3–0 or 4–0 , this coupled with what I actually heard on radio 5 and what Ive seen of the goals is that Leeds had plenty of the ball , just found it hard to break a 6,7,8 man defence , and norwich looked dangerous on the counter attack . |
| 9 | I therefore walked on air as I went to Westminster Evening Institute to sign on for the next Sociology year . |
| 10 | ’ You would n't believe the sufferings of scarlet women , Mr. K. George and I never went on holiday together . |
| 11 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 12 | THE TEXT of the Maastricht Treaty , which finally went on sale at Her Majesty 's Stationery Office ( HMSO ) in London last month , has been withdrawn , apparently because of a row over the spelling of ‘ ecu ’ , the European currency unit . |
| 13 | Two witnesses , his sister , Mrs Rosalie Temple , and a friend , Mr James Robson , said that Mr Smith was an old-fashioned farmer living in an old-fashioned world — a house which had n't been altered for decades and which still depended on spring water . |
| 14 | Lloyd was wearing the bottom half of a pale grey pinstripe suit with turn-ups which probably took on board water when it rained . |
| 15 | The critique of male sexuality which originally focused on rape , developed through analyses of child sexual abuse and non-stranger rape — and later pornography . |
| 16 | The ruler continued to enjoy , unless he were unusually vicious or unlucky , a respect which sometimes verged on worship . |
| 17 | At times she felt overwhelmed by his personality , which sometimes bordered on piety . |
| 18 | She dismantled them and used the beads to weight the edges of crocheted food covers , which then went on sale at a craft workshop at Symonds Yat on the Gloucestershire / Herefordshire border . |
| 19 | These hotels are a new addition to Kuoni 's hotel programme , which previously concentrated on deluxe and out-of-town accommodation . |
| 20 | She felt intimidated ; these men were the most powerful in the land , men you only saw on television or in the press . |
| 21 | After overhearing comments surrounding Toni 's gender and nationality — by fellow Americans , I was relieved when she finally appeared on stage at 9.15pm . |
| 22 | Less dramatic but equally puzzling would be the problem posed by the patient who deliberately went on hunger-strike in order to end his suffering . |
| 23 | She also claimed on television that 152 old drawings had disappeared . |
| 24 | She then lectured on philosophy and economics for the Women 's Co-operative Guild . |
| 25 | She then embarked on study for a Diploma of Education , but converted to a Bachelor 's degree which she gained with distinction in psychology and education . |
| 26 | She sometimes appeared on earth as a hippopotamus , too , and her epithet was The Golden . |
| 27 | Like most of the other women in the refuge , she never went on holiday after she was married , never went to the pictures and rarely went out . |
| 28 | Other public bodies who actively campaigned on behalf of the constitutional amendment were the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties . |
| 29 | Mr Rushdie , who recently declared on television that he was no longer prepared to remain shut away from the world , spent the evening with a few favoured friends . |
| 30 | THE BOOKS YOU ACTUALLY READ ON HOLIDAY : |