Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My vet — an older man who lived out on the Downs — has just retired , so I 'll try both your practices which will be to my advantage , because when one practice is too busy to come out at once then I can call on the other . ’ |
| 2 | I always had to call out Mr Davidson — the vet who lived out on the Downs — but he 's gone and retired . |
| 3 | After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor . |
| 4 | We rose with several of our colleagues , who spilled out on the fifteenth floor to attend the nightly booze-up . |
| 5 | Between them , the Quakers and the Christian Council looked after about twenty per cent of those who came over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 6 | Are you going to tell me that it was someone who came back on the train from London who gave you the key ? ’ |
| 7 | One of the precautions was that everybody however remotely connected with the pie had to have their excreta tested , and this fact led to the pinstriped officials from Westminster who turned up on the night before pie day being turned away . |
| 8 | we had two people today who rushed out on the main road . |
| 9 | The past includes a violent father who walked out on the family when Banks was 12 , and running away from home himself at 18 to join Castro ( ‘ In the late Fifties , remember , he got a great press in the States . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Oldham have forgiven rebel goalkeeper John Keeley , who walked out on the club last week after being dropped at QPR . |
| 11 | The screws who worked down on the block were absolute monsters . |
| 12 | We , who grew up on the terraces , had it by right . |
| 13 | Of the 133 RAF aircrew who took off on the night of May 16 , 56 failed to return . |
| 14 | It reaches us through not only the filtering processes of memory but also the demands of style : and this is particularly obvious in this instance Although his autobiography was never published , the teller of this tale , James Mackenzie , was a professional showman who ended up on the fairground stage . |
| 15 | To give Perdita confidence in her first chukka , he 'd put her on a dark brown pony called Chimango ( which meant bird of prey ) , who was as steady as a rock , but who swept down on the ball like a hawk . |
| 16 | These are the people who missed out on the Eighties ' boom and who are now being hit hardest by the recession . |
| 17 | Karl is a serious musician who missed out on the nihilism of the Seventies punk and largely retained Sixties hippy values . |
| 18 | This is apparent to anyone who sat in on the proceedings of a local credit union . |
| 19 | The guy who sat out on the Common , waiting for the spacemen to come . |
| 20 | It was Wei Feng , T'ang of East Asia , who picked up on the word . |