Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Valerie and I married on impulse . |
| 2 | I got into the bathroom and took my blindfold off and I discovered on top of the cistern , an automatic weapon . |
| 3 | And I brayed on window . |
| 4 | I gave him my least friendly look , he returned it and I sauntered on set looking serenely confident , chic-ly gowned etc … |
| 5 | Hamish Hamilton and I went on search for survivors but found nothing , except sea marks of crashed aircraft . ’ |
| 6 | I 'd blown it , and I stood on stage in a semi-circle with the rest of the acts and an artificially bright smile , while the compère read out the marks awarded to each act by the three judges . |
| 7 | I watched him go in by his own back door and I hurried on home . |
| 8 | And I decided on cheese ! |
| 9 | And I mean you yourself , you know , during the Westland you you you left a cabinet meeting , apparently Mrs Thatcher thought you were going to the loo and you went on television to say , I 'm resigning because I think she 's got it wrong over Westland . |
| 10 | Cos I , I were asking if they wanted a baked tatie and that and we stood waiting for them and you noticed on sack |
| 11 | He was interested in her and she felt on top of the world … |
| 12 | It belonged to an age Claire could well remember , when there were big shooting parties at Riverstown , and she followed on foot with her mother and joined the guns for lunch . |
| 13 | As the car moved away , out of sight , and she walked on air up the path to the front door , she thought , Of course , I was right before , he did just feel sorry for me , and now he 's regretting kissing me the way he did . |
| 14 | And she came on horseback and she came over that road making for , |
| 15 | ‘ She was n't really much of a party goer , she hated nightclubs and she frowned on drinking and smoking . ’ |
| 16 | She wanted to be out of his sight very quickly and she leaned on Marguerite willingly to get up the stairs as fast as possible . |
| 17 | There was you know little firms like that and yet everybody was in , nobody nobody would ever try and er and er and er and escape paying their contribution , but there was a law you could n't join a union till you were sixteen , that was the law then in then , but er when this strike came back and we came on strike in December , er we lads who was under age joined the union , they give us all six bob a week , the union did . |
| 18 | And we realized on reflection , had Freda have not volunteered early enough , another lady who used to work at the station played , u plays for Nigel when he does his gigs . |
| 19 | Moonlight turned the grass to water and we walked on stepping stones to the far , shadowed wall . |
| 20 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |
| 21 | I managed to dissuade her from that and we settled on lunch together the following day . |
| 22 | Davies said he ditched his girlfriend for Fiona and they went on holiday together to Tenerife where Paul took pictures of her topless . |
| 23 | . And they went on Boxing Day dinner . |
| 24 | Well they 're busy doing King Lear and they went on stage . |
| 25 | They took it on their on their They went with their ponies in their little barrels you see , and they went on horseback over it . |
| 26 | And they looked on course when goals from Ryan Giggs and Ian Rush put them in front after the RCS had taken a 16th minute lead through Pavel Kuka . |
| 27 | But Rowan and her went on Boxing Day . |
| 28 | His address was part of a graduation ceremony , and he walked on stage with school officials and local dignitaries ; he dutifully applauded as each student received a diploma , although " One got the impression that it was an effort for him to look up " . |
| 29 | He could not walk erect , and invariably crouched on his heels with his knees drawn up to his chin , and he existed on meal pottage fed to him by a spoon by his mother . |
| 30 | and he said on top of that he said you can bring your digger along and you can play in the sand as well |