Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] on [noun] " 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 | I finally focused on Ben Slack who was 15 — a year younger than me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ My dear fellow , did I ever tell you about the way two men and two ladies I once met on Mykonos made love ? ’ |
| 6 | I always slept on board . |
| 7 | I always worked on Saturday morning . |
| 8 | And I really felt on edge walking back |
| 9 | ‘ I then went on holiday by myself . ’ |
| 10 | But Merry crawled and got into the pigsty ; and I almost fell on top of him and slammed the door . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I therefore walked on air as I went to Westminster Evening Institute to sign on for the next Sociology year . |
| 13 | ’ You would n't believe the sufferings of scarlet women , Mr. K. George and I never went on holiday together . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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Treaty , which finally went on sale at Her Majesty 's Stationery Office ( HMSO ) in London last month , has been withdrawn , apparently because of a row over the spelling of ‘ ecu ’ , the European currency unit . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Such scalability is also at the heart of Sun Microsystems ' Sparc design , steadily gaining favour with manufacturers which formerly concentrated on PCs . |
| 18 | Lloyd was wearing the bottom half of a pale grey pinstripe suit with turn-ups which probably took on board water when it rained . |
| 19 | The reviews follow the Tomlinson report earlier this year which also concentrated on ways to slim down health services in the capital . |
| 20 | The resolution , which also called on Iraq to " allow immediate access by international humanitarian organizations to those in need of assistance " , made no provision for any action to force the Iraqi government to halt its campaign of repression against the Kurdish and Shia minorities . |
| 21 | The critique of male sexuality which originally focused on rape , developed through analyses of child sexual abuse and non-stranger rape — and later pornography . |
| 22 | Such demands failed , however , to quell the discontent , which increasingly focused on Michael Heseltine as the only serious alternative to Mrs Thatcher , a view supported by polls that showed him to be the voters ' overwhelming choice to replace her . |
| 23 | The ruler continued to enjoy , unless he were unusually vicious or unlucky , a respect which sometimes verged on worship . |
| 24 | At times she felt overwhelmed by his personality , which sometimes bordered on piety . |
| 25 | This last was said with a kind of passionate zeal that was typical of Robert , and which sometimes grated on Stephen 's nerves . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As far as access to one 's financial input is concerned , the Companies Act 1981 ( now consolidated into the 1985 Act ) lifted many of the restrictions which previously existed on companies purchasing their members ' shares . |
| 28 | These hotels are a new addition to Kuoni 's hotel programme , which previously concentrated on deluxe and out-of-town accommodation . |
| 29 | The tomb and treasures in Dorchester have been featured in The Face of Tutankhamun , a new BBC documentary series which recently featured on BBC 2 . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought you only went on weekends . ’ |