Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [noun] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Jack the whole place seemed empty , as if only Tina and himself and Ho existed on the face of the planet . |
| 2 | She and Frances fell on each other . |
| 3 | Eventually , she and Paul decided on an Osborne & Little design in a soft raspberry colour . |
| 4 | She and Rory left on the last train back to Glasgow that night . |
| 5 | The night before the wedding , they went out to all their favourite haunts — 1997 , Rick 's Café , the Go-Down — and ended up at two in the morning getting out of a taxi in Wan Chai , the neon blazing in the hot night , dark-eyed Chinese girls in brightly lit doorways , American sailors talking to them while people slept on the pavements and steaming noodles were served at three dollars a bowl at the poor-man 's lean-to restaurant . |
| 6 | His dragon had taken a mortal wound as he and Caledor clashed on the battlefield . |
| 7 | He and Mackay put on 97 in 72 minutes , extending Australia 's total to 348 , which proved enough for a seven wicket victory after West Indies failed to avoid the follow-on . |
| 8 | Malcolm also made that contact when he and Bernie went on a trip up north , searching round textile factories for old fifties cloth to use for making up zoot suits . |
| 9 | Most of his news-making troubles began in 1986 when he and Madonna embarked on a movie that never lived up to all the hype and publicity that surrounded it , Shanghai Surprise . |
| 10 | The sergeant felt uneasy while he and Blanche stood on the drawbridge . |
| 11 | He was still interested in politics , and for a while a fairly active member of the Labour party , especially during the miners ' strike when he and Solowka canvassed on their behalf . |
| 12 | On the Friday night Pat carried his wife to the cellar when the raid started , then he and Maureen went on duty . |
| 13 | He and Farquhar sat on the deck side by side , panting and groaning . |
| 14 | Sometimes Gabriel 's ghost was so physical , so vivid , that Lee would almost cry out to Larry to warn him as he moved through it between the kitchen and the living-room or walked over it as Gabriel lay on the carpet in front of the television . |