Example sentences of "we [vb past] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , er , you said when we met on Rhodes — ’ |
| 2 | The best help came from all the fellow humans we met on holiday . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , it belongs to a terribly nice chap we met on Mull . ’ |
| 4 | Erm there are a number of matters which need to be picked up by the county council as a result of requests which we made on Friday and also you will note that a number of additional papers have been laid on the table . |
| 5 | She suffered dreadfully from hay fever , and many were the times — such as when we picnicked on Ivinghoe Beacon — she would have benefited from emulating Alan Turing who was said to cycle to work wearing an army gas-mask to protect himself from the pollen . |
| 6 | We picnicked on beaches of jet black sand under windy coconut palms , where surf rolled in from Africa . |
| 7 | What has happened to the statements that we expected on revenue support grant ? |
| 8 | We lived on chunks of fighting cock , pork and water-buffalo boiled in bamboo tubes until I thought I never wanted to eat meat again . |
| 9 | We lived on pig potatoes and burnt Holland trays that Winter . |
| 10 | ‘ In the vacs I loaded fish at Yarmouth and we lived on fish and chips . |
| 11 | Only half a dozen men and I were left , but almost at once a third plane arrived , and having been warned that they dared not wait as there were Jap planes about , we got on board and the plane took oft almost empty . |
| 12 | Then we got on board the little " Fingal " and soon were joined by a number who had travelled with us when we came and whom we greeted as old friends . |
| 13 | We got on TV . |
| 14 | The reports we commissioned on group discussions and depth interviews with people who might have been particularly vulnerable to the risk of serious credit problems ( Appendix II ) , and on the experience of clients of the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( Appendix III ) , were designed to throw some light on such problems . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We drew on data from speech science and psycholinguistic experiments to discuss what properties of speech might be causing these processing problems . |
| 17 | We concentrated on retailing , the leisure/holidays and the catering industries , on manufacturing enterprises and on organisations supplying agency workers . |
| 18 | Judging the moment , we exploded on deck with all our navigational " tools " and I , usually the smooth talker of the family , went into action . |
| 19 | And so we sailed on south for some days . |
| 20 | For about ten or twelve days we sailed on south , down the coast of Africa . |
| 21 | at the last minute , mm well in fact we heard on Monday it was a passage and we sailed on Friday |
| 22 | We played on Saturdays and Sundays . |
| 23 | No oranges will taste the same as those we ate on t hose Saturday mornings , saving the peel to throw at the screen when Roy Rogers brought out his guitar to serenade Dale Evans across a Texas campfire that was flickering in an enchanted cave in a Manchester street . |
| 24 | ‘ Twelve months ago we came on leaps and bounds , and surprised even ourselves by winning the All Ireland . |
| 25 | We came on foot , by coach or train , |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We read about your trip in the paper before we came on holiday and now we 're on our way back through Reggane . |
| 28 | If we have only been on cover for a short time and it is clear that the majority of the damage occurred before we came on cover , the claim should be referred to the previous insurers . |
| 29 | And you 've done nothing but snap and shout at me ever since we came on board . ’ |
| 30 | He was young and madly enthusiastic for all things meteorological , with the exception of the teleprinter which he was always messing up , getting the paper stuck and so on , and leaving us to sort it out when we came on duty . |