Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forrester eventually got on the pitch with about 5 minutes left , and indeed Fowler was attempting to put him through when the ball richoched back to him , hit him in the stomach and sat up in a ‘ kick me please ’ type fashion , which he did , and scored . |
| 2 | And er we , we did n't do an awful lot on commercial later on , we gave up that er thing we , we mostly concentrated on the private cars . |
| 3 | Not much rose on the Tees at Stockton in those days , least of all trout ; and a ducking was followed by a dash to hospital and an appointment with a stomach pump . |
| 4 | The scene was frantic : a sea of members but precious few stage-divers ( these guys like to keep their distance ) , simply ridiculous volume levels that make sure you only concentrated on the music , lovely melodies , and people getting away from the pressures of daily life in a northern town . |
| 5 | One of his favourite instances is the scene in On the Waterfront when Brando , thinking he was between takes , idly tried on the glove that Eva Marie Saint had dropped . |
| 6 | But she only came on the scene recently ; there were others . |
| 7 | The Gedge boy , who apparently spied on the entire population of Dynmouth , had no doubt seen him . |
| 8 | He suddenly pounded on the back of the galley with his fist . |
| 9 | Jimmy Marks had become the Commander of No 35 Squadron and so arrived on the day that the Pathfinders were formed with his hind-picked aircrews from No 1 Group . |
| 10 | Setting her firmly down on the wide base of the large shower cubicle , he swiftly turned on the taps , before joining her beneath the cascade of fresh water . |
| 11 | I have been here over a week now , and I miss you very much , and I miss the fresh air and the fresh faces of all those people I so hated on the Tube and the fresh things that happened every hour of every day if only I could have seen them — their freshness , I mean . |
| 12 | There were thousands of the creatures flying above them and ominously silhouetted on the witch trees at the edge of the plain . |
| 13 | Discussions at the meeting of the Council of Internal Market Ministers held on 18 June failed to result in any agreement on the long outstanding European Company Statute , first proposed in 1970 and long deadlocked on the issue of employee participation . |
| 14 | Yeah but you only knit on the welt , then you put the needles on it spare pin , on a pin |
| 15 | At first , she only worked on the household duties , especially the cooking . |
| 16 | It was the undertaker , to give him his common nomenclature , who provided what was considered ‘ correct ’ in a given situation , and he alone decided on the trappings . |
| 17 | And we meet the couple whose wedding literally started on the rocks . |
| 18 | Having made two journeys to India and stayed with Indian friends there , I did not find the quote at all out of order , and to me the emphasis naturally fell on the words ‘ now that their lives have been ruined ’ rather than the five preceding words . |
| 19 | But if you only went on the square foot it do n't matter how big it was well that 's like , surely that 'd be fairer ? |
| 20 | James IV , idealistic and militaristic , ‘ first and foremost a warrior ’ as Dr Norman Macdougall has described him , spent at least £100,000 Scots ( rather more than three years ' income ) on artillery and even more on his navy ; £30,000 alone went on the building of the huge and spectacular Great Michael , a ship so impressive that it was promptly copied by Henry VIII , whose Henri Grace a Dieu was built virtually to the same specifications in 1512 , a year after the Michael 's completion . |
| 21 | One local authority in tackling the problem of odour nuisance from maggot farms in their area not only insisted on the installation of catalytic incineration equipment but on disposal of the sawdust waste , which still contained some maggots after sieving , by bagging and subsequent incineration in the municipal incinerator , instead of burying the waste as had been done previously . |
| 22 | It is not up to us to forget or forgive the crime that Germany committed only a few decades ago ; the only ones who might have done so died on the battlefield or , worse yet , in the gas chambers . |
| 23 | Mark 's smile did not reveal that Faustina naturally went on the beds as well as in the lounge . |
| 24 | That we only lay on the ground and kissed . |
| 25 | She had begun to climb the bank when the four-wheel drive suddenly appeared on the rim above , bumped down and drew to a halt alongside . |
| 26 | Even when lightning lit the skies and the floodgates opened when she was still twenty miles from her destination she merely flicked on the car 's wipers and peered out into the black night , letting the piercing beam of the headlights guide her along the road . |
| 27 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |
| 28 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |
| 29 | He foolishly wrote on the results board in the Tote Credit office : ‘ Was this fixed ? ’ and has been suspended . |
| 30 | ‘ We only stayed on the beach for a couple of hours or so , and there was a breeze . ’ |