Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] [vb past] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever she appeared on stage or at TV stations she insisted cameramen signed forms preventing them from selling their pictures to these ‘ pirate ’ merchandisers . |
| 2 | The images she uses — the hazelnut , the herring scales , the seabed , the clothes blown in the wind — show how she reflected on life in East Anglia and on God at work in his world . |
| 3 | Commons sources confirmed that on Thursday Mrs Thatcher stood at the despatch box with a television monitor nearby to see how she appeared on television in the chamber . |
| 4 | Talking of exotic locations , our lucky fashion department have been off to colourful Morocco , to see how they got on turn to page 37 . |
| 5 | No one understands how he got on stage and how he got near the president . |
| 6 | I 'VE never been so moved before as I was when I saw on TV the rescue of a boy who had collapsed on his way to a feeding centre in Somalia . |
| 7 | Marian 's father was a partner in a solicitor 's practice in Manchester and that is where she returned on graduation to take her articles . |
| 8 | Why you went on board the Jonquil that evening ? ’ |
| 9 | The second reason is immigration , where we gained on balance about half a million people and they of course were mostly young , they had their families here , so that they gave the impression of having very high birthrates . |
| 10 | Naturally Marx started by explaining the historical mechanism and inner working of the social system which dominated the condition of the working class at the time when he wrote on capitalism . |
| 11 | This trait sometimes created difficulties when he served on university bodies . |
| 12 | Secrett , aged 38 and formerly at the International Institute of Environment and Development , spent eight years with FoE in the 1980s , when he campaigned on wildlife , rain forests and the countryside . |
| 13 | It also meant he only had to walk across the Paddock when he went on night duty . ’ |
| 14 | fulfilled all those requests except for promptness ; that was met by when he nominated on Christmas Eve , a month before taking office himself . |
| 15 | York town crier John Redpath , who gained national notoriety earlier this year when he appeared on TV in a Liberal Democrat party political broadcast , is certainly glad of the tourists because otherwise he would be out of a job . |
| 16 | " Why are they doing all this work so early in the morning ? " she asked Captain Duro when he appeared on deck looking as spruce and polished as he had on the first day she met him . |
| 17 | Outspoken radio presenter Baker infuriated Reg Burr last season when he called on air for the dismissal of former manager Bruce Rioch , now boss of Bolton . |
| 18 | A MEMORIAL to police sergeant Alan King will mark the spot where he died on duty . |