Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Frenchmen whom I met on several occasions at the Training Centre at Achnacarry and on the South Coast of England had also gone , either killed or wounded . |
| 2 | Of course I failed on all counts and so I was ignored most of the time — passed over . |
| 3 | I got on first-name terms with the other managers-in-the-making . |
| 4 | I soon felt hungry and thirsty , and my first food was fruit which I found on some trees near a river . |
| 5 | I was also gratified by the immense good will and friendship towards Britain which I encountered on all sides . |
| 6 | I played on four albums for Barry Gibb ; I worked for Dionne Warwick on the ‘ Heartbreaker ’ and some film music for ‘ Staying Alive ’ . |
| 7 | During the next two days I advised on industrial relations problems in catering , computers and property services and sent back three more folders of work to my line manager . |
| 8 | I taught on all makes of machine and have also worked in stores and at exhibitions , selling knitting and sewing machines . |
| 9 | I touched on those points yesterday when I appeared before the Treasury Select Committee . |
| 10 | I remember the tired yet excited feeling when , as a youth studying Russian at Cambridge during my military service , I escaped on occasional weekends , taking the train to King 's Cross , and then the tube to Paddington . |
| 11 | I landed on those ones . |
| 12 | I pulled on some socks and shoes and ran to the iron door . |
| 13 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I decided on four days because I reckoned that that 's as near to being a full-timer as you can be , while still gaining something significant for yourself . |
| 15 | ‘ I doubt whether I could have indicated it more clearly than by the importance I placed on foreign affairs in the last year . |
| 16 | I called on Labour Councillors : they agreed that the state of affairs on the site was shocking . |
| 17 | I wer I started on ten shillings a week there , down there , at er fourteen . |
| 18 | And names I saw on printed lists , quotas , manifests . |
| 19 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 20 | I witnessed on several occasions horribly embarrassing disagreements between Harold Wilson and Marcia Williams , but it was clear that his loyalty to her would not be disturbed by any difference of opinion or any show of temper . |
| 21 | I dragged on some clothes and ran over . |
| 22 | I pondered on these things and felt that it was not good … |
| 23 | I was spitting with fear and frustration as I yanked on some clothes and flung myself into the control area . |
| 24 | and look what he said on Friday , I wanted on main lines he said , but you 're not one of them and you 're not getting a new motor |
| 25 | Alec and I parted on good terms . |
| 26 | So he made sure she failed on all counts . |
| 27 | She succeeded on both scores . |
| 28 | Her faith in him was severely tested later , especially in 1908 and again in 1913 ; but she drew on deep reservoirs of resilience until the anxieties of his last year as a soldier began to sap her energies as housekeeper , mother , and gardener . |
| 29 | She drew on sensible boots and a warm woollen cape and called for the carriage to be brought round to the front . |
| 30 | She tried the back door and found it open , and going in she turned on some lights and made herself a cup of coffee . |