Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd gone out on the boat
2 I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise .
3 Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose .
4 It was mizzling steadily , so I had lashed out on a minibus ticket , which cost more than a taxi would here .
5 I were just so psyched up on Wednesday and then I had to go in on the Friday before so I did n't
6 ‘ Because New York were giving me hell about employing you and I 've gone out on a limb .
7 Can I explain all those booklets that I 've put out on the table ?
8 These are n't just people I 've picked up on the street and thought , Ooh let's show some kooky S&M now !
9 ‘ Having studied my chemistry in the steam age ’ , he writes , ‘ presumably I have missed out on the new ‘ water ’ .
10 I have drawn up on the attached sheet the numbers of staff required in my estimation to deal with Council Tax in the future .
11 I have got back on the adrenalin and enthusiasm for these first few matches and hopefully in the next six weeks you will see the best of me . ’
12 Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there .
13 Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators .
14 what time do you have to get up on a Sunday morning ?
15 Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do .
16 So you 've given up on the town park idea ?
17 That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest .
18 There 's little hope of much change from a fiver once you 've splashed out on a basic box of 12 .
19 I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult .
20 When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on .
21 She had to sit down on the ground .
22 She wore her hair squeezed up into a ballooning Afro by the same red bandana that she had worn down on the dock the first time Trent had seen her .
23 He had barely glanced at her , and she had blurted out on the spur of the moment , ‘ Fine .
24 She disappeared last weekend , sparking a joke from Australia 's Foreign Minister Gareth Evans that she had ended up on the dinner table of Chinese dictator Deng Xiaoping .
25 No doubt she had missed out on the ‘ crossings ’ !
26 She was not proud to have been the cause of splitting her family up ; nor could she forget how her father 's love had turned to disgust ; and how could she easily reveal the shame which she had brought down on the Wards ?
27 White as any linen , she had sunk down on a rock .
28 So she had to ride back on the she rode back on the
29 Her father , finding in her many of the qualities he had admired in her mother , had given her far greater freedom from the harem than was normal and from childhood she had sat in on the political and intellectual discussions her father had with his cronies .
30 And you had to get out on the floor that catered for your particular dominant moral propensity , and stay there for the whole of Eternity .
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