Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There were 17 players in the team and everyone got on the pitch at some point during the game , ’ he added .
2 Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died .
3 Nothing moved on the land .
4 Nothing moved on the ice .
5 Nothing moved on the road now except for a man driving eight cows from one pasture to another .
6 Nothing moved on the bank nor on the catamaran .
7 Nothing moved on the bank or out on the water .
8 Oh mind , it was quite light , it was n't and I saddled on the path and I did n't , I do n't take chances .
9 ‘ I was in a difficult situation when someone passed on the news Boro had won .
10 And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun .
11 The woman from Ty Fach has found the pictures that I made on the rock , and the little woman with her has looked at them .
12 Could you please tell me : a ) how much I made on the deal ; b ) year of manufacture and finally ; c ) why is the thing so rare ?
13 I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh .
14 Er , he did after a while because there just are n't that many people who run round the N E C who look me in July , but erm , there were conventions earlier in the year , but it , it , you know , I got , actually a very reasonable size of contract out of this man , from that thirty second note I made on the calendar .
15 Apart from the few noises I made on the path , all I could hear was the very occasional and distant roar of heavy trucks on the road through town .
16 I pounced on the quotation because she had no right , no right at all to burden me with her doubts , after a year , and after everything .
17 Let me try I was wondering why he was doing it then I realized on the tape she done that in n it .
18 I think probably that was probably London but in the north I lived on the north east coast in a very small town and some of I mean my memories are quite different in a way .
19 At that time I lived on the flat and rather featureless coast of East Anglia , and spent most of my spare time sailing its lonely creeks and estuaries .
20 I lived on the plain .
21 I wonder if the friendly gent from Gloucester I met on the bank at Bo'ness some days back has noted that steam is heading his way on Saturday ?
22 I had already made one friend who I met on the induction day .
23 At the last , slightly shorter if I remember , it had been a 3- or a 4-iron for the second shot and I thought back to 1958 and the fourth at Lytham , But this rime the boss and I agreed on the 3-iron .
24 I passed on the information which came my way .
25 Toshack was out of work at the time , so I passed on the offer .
26 I checked on the school , and found that the man who had owned it went away with his wife when the school closed .
27 Like Claudia , I have an interest in the NEC show , and it 's time I checked on the progress of my entries . ’
28 As soon as they 'd gone , I got on the phone to Directory Enquiries and asked for the number of the Maidstone hospital .
29 I said no I got on the phone
30 Well I got on the head .
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