Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downstairs the Disco provided a large crowd with the sounds that made them get on the floor and bring a whole new ball game to the w world of the Barn Dance . |
| 2 | Bonington was impressed with the Darc Star climbers when he met them training on the Scottish peaks last winter . |
| 3 | Reading the article in this issue on Remembrance led me to reflect on the statement in our Royal Charter which says that one of the objects of the Association is to : |
| 4 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 5 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 6 | In one village , suddenly raided by the army at 2am , villagers made me lie on the ground and threw a blanket over me , telling the soldiers I was an old woman , too sick to move . |
| 7 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 8 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 9 | When Ella came in , exactly three minutes later , she found them standing on the hearthrug , hand in hand . |
| 10 | An hour and a half later found me flopped on the floor of the turret in a serious state — my vaunted practicality in utter disarray . |
| 11 | He let them trail on the ground . |
| 12 | Two external consultants helped them focus on the key issues . |
| 13 | These tales made quite an impression on me as did the story of Uncle Fred 's eldest son , young Fred as he was known , putting on his age and managing to join the Marines when only sixteen , then found himself serving on the same ship as his father during the great battle — something of a unique record . |
| 14 | ‘ You be careful , my dad 's a vicar ! ’ and the car had stopped and the man had sworn at him viciously , using some phrases Luke later regretted not remembering , and Luke found himself shaking on the dark verge a mile out of Snead . |
| 15 | He took a step back , dizzy and breathless , then found himself sitting on the floor , back to the wall . |
| 16 | He found himself lying on the grass with those wolfish yellow eyes uncomfortably near to his . |
| 17 | Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds . |
| 18 | Ruth found herself crouching on the floor , almost fainting ; wondering how she could ever have thought before that Fincara was casting spells . |
| 19 | Even as she reassured Emilia once more that her concern was groundless Louisa found herself reflecting on the power of the weak , its hold upon the minds of others . |
| 20 | The door closed behind him and Annie found herself sitting on the edge of the bed , her hands between her knees , her eyes on the floor . |
| 21 | So when he turned to her casually in the car , and suggested that they call in at his house for some tea before they parted , Folly found herself leaping on the suggestion with almost indecent haste . |
| 22 | I walked inside , came upstairs … and found her lying on the bed . |
| 23 | She was seen by neighbours as she made her way along Athelstane Road towards her home , minutes before passers-by found her lying on the pavement . |
| 24 | We found him huddled on the floor of a makeshift hospital in Bardera . |
| 25 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 26 | The workhouse master was called to Connolly 's cell and found him lying on the floor . |
| 27 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |
| 28 | When she got out of bed , she found him sitting on the top stair , listening to Dad and Mother downstairs in the kitchen , and crying . |
| 29 | Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ . |
| 30 | The doll had pins piercing the location of the heart when the police found it lying on the victim 's naked body . |