Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |
| 2 | My family have sometimes joined me on these camps but are mainly content to be ‘ Guiding Orphans ’ as well as ‘ Medau Orphans ’ . |
| 3 | But she had earned them on sheer merit . |
| 4 | Well it 's just , he 's just let her on that . |
| 5 | Luckily they 've sat themselves on opposite sides of the room . |
| 6 | No Hellenistic poet or philosopher quoted it , although modern scholars have sometimes deluded themselves on this subject . |
| 7 | She confessed that Sally-Anne had written them on old ones Miss Laura had collected on earlier trips , and Miss Laura had posted them for her , to deceive us . |
| 8 | But , we 've seen them on this side as well ! |
| 9 | The Gulf has seen nothing on this scale before . ’ |
| 10 | If any BW officer had reservations about the project they could have phoned me on 10th or 11th June , particularly as everyone knew the work was scheduled to start on the 12th . |
| 11 | Or meant to have replied , but perhaps she had not , perhaps the knowledge of later years had imposed itself on that first memory . |
| 12 | You remember , I 've met you on various |
| 13 | I 've seen you on that same stage hesitant , unsure of yourself , struggling to get by . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm sure I 've seen one on Mediterranean cooking I do n't know |
| 15 | It was just basically , one of those things , and Abbey paid out , because they said we would have done it , we would have accepted him on this anyway . |
| 16 | Yes , I erm I have met her on one or two occasions and erm the press image is |
| 17 | Since then , Dr Richardson has met him on many occasions , and he conveyed the university 's invitation to the Dalai Lama . |
| 18 | He was a good-looking man in his late thirties , and Fran had met him on several occasions but had never liked him , finding something faintly repugnant about the way he stood on the outside of life looking in , searching for anything unsavoury . |
| 19 | ‘ But you had n't seen her on that occasion ? ’ |
| 20 | Over the past few years , since she had broken off her engagement to Jean-Paul , he had seen her on various occasions — at balls in London , or at country-house weekends once at Christian Glendinning 's parents ' house , but they had spoken only briefly . |
| 21 | The guard smiled , ‘ It 's Charlotte and the boy , we 've seen her on many occasions . |
| 22 | Er but she 's a member and we went there for lunch and it was the ideal place , you know , cos there were n't any , many people around and so we had quite a nice lunch and erm whilst we were there we then had a drink in er in the bar and erm her the , the secretary of the club , a lady , came to talk to Barbara and she mentioned that she 'd seen her on Blind Date you see , and so I got to know more by listening to them two speaking er and er that 's where I learnt about er that . |
| 23 | None of the bargeowners could afford to waste electricity , and the display was really intended for much later at night , but he had turned it on early to surprise and please them . |
| 24 | He had done it on one of the western stretches of the Central Line from North Acton to Ealing Broadway , a rather more hair-raising experience than this . |
| 25 | And there 's no use getting in the exam on Thursday and say ah well I 'm afraid I 've not done it on that arm so erm lost |
| 26 | I should never have done it on that day . ’ |
| 27 | and you need more so really you needed to have done it on this line . |
| 28 | but that was on tens , I 've done it on tens |
| 29 | And then she 's written nearly as much in red ink on the back as I 've written it on black ink on |
| 30 | She had first seen it on one of the standards fluttering in the throne room . |