Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Ah was out where the poppy grows so Ah started on hashish and stuff like that . |
| 2 | And so we sailed on south for some days . |
| 3 | Erm we also know that base five formwork is up so we started on base five as soon as we can , put as many resources into it as we can we mentioned earlier that er having five hundred people in there made life quite congested but we decided the more people that helped in there the better and er our objective was to get the er wall steelwork up . |
| 4 | So it went on day after day , night after night ; we were out for a month . |
| 5 | So it arrived on time … |
| 6 | Then while I was away she went on holiday straight after . |
| 7 | Later she worked on merchandising and public relations for Estée Lauder in England for ten years . |
| 8 | Five minutes later he flopped on top of me . |
| 9 | After reversing one move his feet slipped , followed rapidly by his hands , and a moment later he landed on top of me with a crash of flailing limbs and a clatter of runners . |
| 10 | Just over three weeks later he won on Physicist at Fontwell Park . |
| 11 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
| 12 | Well I started on farm work . |
| 13 | Some years ago I saw on TV a most splendid series by a marvellous writer called Brian Clark . |
| 14 | Ages ago I saw on television someone using a special space with a lever action behind it , to help people with bad backs to be able to dig the garden . |
| 15 | Well she created on Christmas |
| 16 | Here he embarked on research into poverty and the land question , publishing The South African Agrarian Problem ( 1919 ) . |
| 17 | And he come there and luckily he went on top of the table to lie down . |
| 18 | Having now met each other , it seemed that everywhere I went on camp I would come face to face with him , usually with his entourage of armourers fanning out behind him . |
| 19 | Then I began on custom and practice — a fascinating subject , because so much depends on precedent rather than formal agreements . |
| 20 | Then you went on parade . |
| 21 | I , standing on my tiptoes I could n't see out the window to , to look out to the stage erm , and there was a huge step up , it was about that , which was great for people 's bad backs and if you got up on that , erm then you sat on top of a very high cocktail chair , in fact one of our people had to kneel on top of the high cocktail chair , to look , to see down , over the window , down to the stage and they did n't give us a sound feed which would sound familiar |
| 22 | Then she stood on tiptoe , kissed me and was gone . |
| 23 | Will often visited Lord Southampton , but sometimes we went on tour with the company , or spent time at home in Stratford . |
| 24 | Then we got on board the little " Fingal " and soon were joined by a number who had travelled with us when we came and whom we greeted as old friends . |
| 25 | I mean that when we went to Italy , when me and our Terry went to Italy last year erm first thing in the morning we 'd , we 'd have our breakfast , then we had a wander round and then we went on beach , two or three hours in and out at the |
| 26 | Clerke had a shallop built for exploration of the harbours of south-eastern Newfoundland , and fortunately it remained on tow when the ships left for the mainland . |
| 27 | But then he went on television with his wife Hillary , a forceful , highly political lawyer . |
| 28 | Uncle Bill let out a yell and kicked him away , then he snapped on Captain 's lead and tied him to a chair in the corner of the kitchen . |
| 29 | Precisely what happened on board the ship after it left Hong Kong in late December remains unclear . |
| 30 | So you could wear them under the heavy o oil skin or whatever else they wore on top , and it looked a very comfortable garment , apart from the waterproof . |