Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly not compared to the time he got caught messing around on the roof of Battersea Power Station trying to nick the lead . |
| 2 | To do that almost seemed to entail giving up on the course altogether . |
| 3 | I was led into a dark room and told to lie face down on a mattress on the floor . |
| 4 | Being together even wrought a curious change in their characters ; Oldfield noticed that something of his diffidence seemed to have rubbed off on Branson . |
| 5 | The simplest explanation was that Maxham was getting nowhere with the Newley case ; and he 'd sent Viol along on the off chance , to put a little pressure on Lorton and see what happened . |
| 6 | The message is , kites flying is serious stuff , not just an afternoon spent getting blown about on top of a hill until your kite gets stuck in a tree and you go home . |
| 7 | As the time for the funeral approached , so the RUC began to arrive to take over on point duty from the UDR , who then merged into the background but nevertheless maintained a discreet but ever-watchful presence . |
| 8 | He went straight over to Brian , saying , ‘ So , you want escape ? ’ and started raining blows down on him with a stick . |
| 9 | ‘ It was one of the few bits of information we did manage to pick up on the grapevine . |
| 10 | If by any chance you DID manage to miss out on last months ' issue , fear not ! |
| 11 | But if we can turn , because , because Derek did , did request to come along on this specific item , er , and it 's the , the yellow papers , er , on Oak Farm . |
| 12 | It felt as if my whole world had come crashing down on me . |
| 13 | Sand was cleaner than water , the desert dead cleaner than the drowned dishevelled things which I had seen thrown up on shores . |
| 14 | Jardine and Johnstone guessed that they had decided to strike out on their own now , no doubt reluctant to have to share any of their gleanings with others . |
| 15 | David gained his first experience of business with his father and brothers , but by the late 1840s he had decided to strike out on his own , perhaps partly because of his strong temperance convictions . |
| 16 | He had had to go out on exercise one night , and was on duty another , poor thing . |
| 17 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 18 | ‘ I invented having to go out on that instant . |
| 19 | Every time I changed trains there was a posse of London Underground inspectors , so I had to keep doubling back on myself . |
| 20 | The only brush she possessed was the one she used for her make-up , and the only pencil the one she had found lying about on the sideboard . |
| 21 | The worrying question marks over Rose McGarry , the events of yesterday , and Emily 's obvious unhappiness had combined to close in on him ; as though the world were shrinking , poised to suffocate him . |
| 22 | He seemed to have forgotten I had tried to walk out on him fifty kilometres or so back . |
| 23 | ‘ I feel I should say that if I had to get washed up on a beach minus my memory I was lucky the beach was yours , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 24 | She had liked to lie in on Saturdays and Sundays . |
| 25 | Had had to come out on strike , then er all the workers be on strike fund , er did you and your father receive strike money ? |
| 26 | The ‘ man from the ministry ’ who had taken her statement about the crash and their escape had been kindness itself , but the effects had begun to creep up on her . |
| 27 | ‘ He noticed the Rover he had overtaken closing in on him , ’ he told magistrates at nearby Witney . |