Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night I stopped on a bit at the dance in Cotherstone and had to walk home because I could n't get a lift from anyone . |
| 2 | It so happened that the Gulf War in Kuwait was filling our attention , and so I switched on a video tape whenever something attracted me and I found that I would be most likely to record the daily sessions on the BBC 's Newsnight with Peter Snow discussing the disposition of troops over the battle zone using a visual aid which is now known as the sandpit . |
| 3 | Clearly this was no place for me , and having tiptoed back to the sitting-room , I switched on a light and picked up the evening paper . |
| 4 | I dreamt I went I think I went to France , I think I was , I went on a day trip to France |
| 5 | While my mother attempted to sort out our family finances — no easy matter with the capital , La Paz , virtually divorced from all communication — I took on a job of work for Porua . |
| 6 | BACK to 1979 , when I carried on a bit about superstitions about earwigs , the whole thing being started up by a film about a man driven off his trolley by one of the insects boring into his brain , shouts of ‘ rubbish ’ at the screen did no good . |
| 7 | She switched on a desk lamp , and quickly scanned what she had just written , murmuring to herself . |
| 8 | After that she put on a dress of burnt sienna which contrasted with her pale gold hair and made her feel more feminine . |
| 9 | She put on a jacket , though he would know why she had the jacket on , and went out , under his cold furious dissecting gaze . |
| 10 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
| 11 | Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree . |
| 12 | Well we were lucky in that we 've been able to do , have a , a very good relationship with a company called well known in the marine side and they put in forty five thousand pounds into er the scheme and promised that before Christmas and that was reading the paper one day in November the , the Robert the National Heritage Minister saying that they may be , may , if you 're lucky , going to put some money into sport and er so we contacted them and we were one of the first sports to get , had money doubled as they say in the bingo hall , so we er we now have ninety , ninety thousand pounds and which I wh has been distributed or will be distributed in the , in the following way so that 's how we 're gon na spend it and er these er , the administration represent we were basically overwhelmed with enquiries and s we took on a person in order to , to do it , the normal R Y A staff had already got enough on so we took on a girl called Sara who answers all the queries on the Year of Youth Hotline and erm we are also running the boat shows , the four or five N B L challenge which is the flagship event for our sponsors which is er I wo n't go into the , the details but is a , a talent fight , talent spotting event for under sixteen year olds around the country and it provided fleet of dinghies , the prize for which is a dinghy which is not , not a bad prize I think you 'll agree . |
| 13 | The girl mounted the steps to stand beside the master of ceremonies and they carried on a conversation which , though audible , was unintelligible . |
| 14 | He told us that the paintings on either wall faced each other , and he liked to think they carried on a consultation to themselves . |
| 15 | she said who , I said Joy , she said oh blimey is she , I said yeah , so he hung on a bit but he 'd |
| 16 | Later , in the mid-70s , while on holiday in the Caribbean , he switched on a lamp that had frayed wiring and he received a terrific shock . |
| 17 | When they reached the edge of the bush he switched on a torch , and as they entered the opening in the trees they left the canopy of twinkling stars for the canopy of overhead branches . |
| 18 | ‘ It droned on a bit — and there was nobody there to answer any of the questions that were raised . ’ |
| 19 | The Singh home intrigued him because although Jazz — apart from his looks — was as normal as himself , once in his own house he took on a sort of foreign ambience , changing subtly into an Indian to fit into the undeniably different atmosphere . |
| 20 | JACKO kept fuming police waiting for nearly an hour as he went on a midnight shopping spree — for new toys . |
| 21 | His operational flying looked as promising as his civilian flying had , until he went on a night bombing raid over Constantinople . |
| 22 | He went on a while about the various tests but where he came out was that she 'd been dead for at least five days , and seven was perfectly possible . |
| 23 | Rising initially in a vertical plume for many thousands of metres , and then spreading out laterally in the upper atmosphere , it took on a shape rather like that of a pine tree , with a trunk and branches . |
| 24 | As an example , the Lewis Association was formed in the 1930's , and it took on a life of its own by promoting research and by issuing booklets . |
| 25 | ‘ Leith 's just been telling me that you both work for the same firm , ’ he put on a front for the rest of the world to joke . |
| 26 | Now he had on a suit . |