Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Firstly , I want to play better on our next record than I did on this one ; that always has to be a major goal for me . |
| 2 | There is a local story that Queen Elizabeth spent a night here ; what is certain is that she passed on this road on her way from Burderop to Cirencester . |
| 3 | All that we saw on that Thursday night was O going home on his own once more ; though if we had watched closely we would have seen that he simply left his stool and did not say Goodnight , Mother . |
| 4 | Can I just say that er Ray phoned me up the other day and he said er , would you be prepared to take part in probationers ' , er regional probationary sort of training day er which is at coming up er in a few months time , to give erm presentation skills er I part of what we were doing , erm but just those O H Ps that we did on that part . |
| 5 | Surely no civil servant had more unique or peaceful surroundings in which to work than we did on this day . |
| 6 | When 16 Mediterranean states signed a similar ‘ framework treaty ’ in 1976 they considered it so insubstantial that they insisted on all parties to the treaty also signing at least one of the more detailed and binding protocols . |
| 7 | Graham 's ( 1972 ) analysis of the social processes leading to the US Comprehensive ( sic ) Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act , 1970 , considers how , through tough lobbying tactics and calling on good connections — especially in the House of Representatives — the pharmaceutical manufacturers were able to limit the discussion of amphetamine abuse so that it focused on that small minority of persons who inject it . |
| 8 | Erm yeah I certainly would encourage you down that path Miss Whittaker that if it helps , I do n't know whether you 've got all the documents , but in our our submissions to the county we suggested that if E two has to survive erm and to add the words , sorry , exactly as you started the sentence but finishing that the exceptions were areas of the sites allocated for development in local plans , it would seem to me to make it absolutely clear what the freedom of local interpretation was in the statutory plan process whilst giving the county the the that it wanted on all the other areas of the county . |
| 9 | As he approaches the city on the freeway the same old restless excitement stirs in him that he felt on that first apocalyptic evening all those years ago . |
| 10 | The sermon that he preached on that occasion , is the only one recorded , and it is contained in that letter to his brother . |
| 11 | On another occasion he was spotted by an opposing Derby County player lying drunk in the street the night before an important league match , a scene that he repeated on several occasions in London 's late-night jazz clubs . |
| 12 | Faldo also made birdies at both the 15th and 16th and putted better than he had on either of the first two days . |
| 13 | These cards I filed in alphabetical order , and I noted on each one details of new purchases and quantities . |
| 14 | ‘ May I ask , ’ he said , ‘ how you have done so well , since you and I met on those lonely marshes ? ’ |
| 15 | I was thought of as rather gallant and dashing , and I played on this for a long time , emphasizing the cruelty and hardship aspects of the camp , and skating over the boredom and hunger , which were what I chiefly remembered . |
| 16 | A private internal affair needed resolving , and I went on that review group , I was prepared to do all that I could to resolve it . |
| 17 | The shelves looked good , and I piled on all the books , heavy ones at floor level , lighter ones at the top . |
| 18 | If I died on this hillside , I would not even know where or when the hillside was . |
| 19 | ‘ What would you give me if I stood on that boulder on one leg ? ’ asked Christopher , eyeing a small rock on the extreme edge of the cliff . |
| 20 | Yet if I concentrated on each footstep , I should soon be safely home . |
| 21 | This girl she was well and she got on this fucking roundabout you know , one that swings out ? |
| 22 | And she capitalized on this , she saw where it could be to her advantage to be perceived as a celluloid creation . |
| 23 | If she went on this way , you 'd be able to pick her up soon . |
| 24 | can I just just pursue that you said said so the if you embarked on another scenario , and you said that the only way in which extra over , that beyond the figure proposed by the County Council , would be by way of a new settlement , I 'm sort of transgressing my own ground rules here , I know that Ryedale has expressed support for the principle of a new settlement , are you saying that you would be looking for a new settlement , possibly in Ryedale ? |
| 25 | It seems they had two er registers really , one register meant that you were a part of the movement , the other register I imagine meaning you were actually an enemy of this movement so if you got on that register you , you were in , that that would er spell very bad news , so consequently you were trying to join the , the , the first association . |
| 26 | If you sat on that bend for long enough you 'd be sure to see something . |
| 27 | Well think , if you concentrated on that a bit more instead of just doing it any where in the air you might get on a bit quicker . |
| 28 | And we got on this subject . |
| 29 | And we had on these shoes you know . |
| 30 | and we went on that other side |