Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Well I started on farm work .
2 Some years ago I saw on TV a most splendid series by a marvellous writer called Brian Clark .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Then I began on custom and practice — a fascinating subject , because so much depends on precedent rather than formal agreements .
6 It was very uncomfortable until firstly I started getting some of the programmes I had commissioned back , and secondly I saw on screen that some of them were going to be among the first successes of the Channel .
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