Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last week , the hon. Gentleman was trying to be a lawyer and attempting to make me read out on the floor of the House a document that he wanted me to table . |
| 2 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 3 | Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby . |
| 4 | In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau . |
| 5 | My only culinary memories of Huntingdon are of seeing a pea-canning factory ( now demolished ) as I passed by on the train . |
| 6 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 7 | And I got up on the wall right ? |
| 8 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm happy ’ , ‘ I 'm settled ’ , ‘ Now I know what it feels like ’ , ‘ I got out on the right side ’ . |
| 10 | When I got out on the street , I would just keep going . |
| 11 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 12 | Oh no you know she 's gon na sort of , sort of suus , so erm , I said oh it 's alright it 's only Eve 's house keeper , and I got back on the phone I said no I 'm every sorry to leave you hanging on I said no I do n't know where she is , I have n't seen her all morning , I have n't seen her at all , and er I said bye then , she said what 's the matter with you she said , I said what do you mean what 's the matter with me , she said oh , why you talking funny ? |
| 13 | So he said I got back on the phone to him and I said as far as I 'm concerned you can get in your car and come down here and fetch back what 's left . |
| 14 | One morning I hopped up on the fence to have a good look around and there , sunning herself in the patio window of the empty house , was the most gorgeous long-hair I 'd ever seen . |
| 15 | I sank back on the bed and started worrying about money . |
| 16 | I falled over on the living room . |
| 17 | I crashed out on the bed before I got the chance . |
| 18 | This time I waited to make sure before I ventured out on the jetty , but it was Neil 's boat , and Neil himself standing ready to step out of it as it nosed in alongside the landing-place . |
| 19 | I came up on the pools ! |
| 20 | I came back on the Friday night and erm , well I 've packed my job in at the Transport Department , I better go down to the Recruiting Office and see what else . |
| 21 | And then I came back on the forth to start off with the stocktaking which is not on the agenda I think . |
| 22 | I came out on the Good Friday and , on the Saturday morning , stitches still in and everything , I got up and thought to myself : ‘ I 'm going to have a smoke ’ . |
| 23 | The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there . |
| 24 | That 's when I threw up on the carpet . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I climbed up on the roof through the window of the ladies ’ toilet , and hung a string of underwear from the Mackintosh Bird … for charity . ’ |
| 26 | Asked about his first day , Terry said : ‘ I was stunned when I turned up on the Monday only to be confronted with the aftermath of the weekend fire . |
| 27 | I looked round very carefully but could see nothing , so I turned back on the tail of the nearest Hun , who was chasing some Hurricanes in front of him . |
| 28 | I plonked down on the hard wooden sofa and began musing : was he telling the truth ? |
| 29 | Roger and I hung back on the hill , watching the rest of the party go into a wood . |
| 30 | I walked out on the moors behind the house . |