Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [pron] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , after I had my children my whole body sagged and I 'd lost a lot of weight and I could n't put it on and I was really skinny and there was no way I could eat , eat a lot and I still would n't put weight on so I started on the weight training and that does n't cost me money and now I 've started putting weight on , so for the skinny kids I think the thing is to do the weight training |
| 2 | On Wednesdays or Saturdays you got two hours ( other days it was only thirty minutes ) so obviously everyone came on those days . |
| 3 | So but there again if I get the enquiries fas I mean , that obviously is the enquiry came through to me so obviously I quoted on it but |
| 4 | So now he lay on his back and thought of nothing and took his pulse from time to time . |
| 5 | ‘ Long ago we depended on each other . |
| 6 | So then I had on the train . |
| 7 | But I could n't shake him on it , so then I concentrated on finding out which hospital you were in . |
| 8 | That morning , as usual , he found nothing to complain of , so instead he wheeled on me to demand whether the boat 's electronic instruments were functioning properly . |
| 9 | WWF found that finding a cuddly plant equivalent of the panda was difficult , so instead it focused on the value of plants to mankind , particularly medicinal plants . |
| 10 | cos to be really eager because she said erm that she 'd asked the bloke about staying on permanently and everything and he said that it seemed the people who they were most impress impressed with after Christmas that can stay on permanently so we said on the end , you 've got ta be really eager and everything so she apparently was asking loads of questions |
| 11 | Once again they dined on their bland diet of soup , meat and biscuits . |
| 12 | Erm we also know that base five formwork is up so we started on base five as soon as we can , put as many resources into it as we can we mentioned earlier that er having five hundred people in there made life quite congested but we decided the more people that helped in there the better and er our objective was to get the er wall steelwork up . |
| 13 | Trying to pull us both up short she started on a lecture on the foetal damage caused by nicotine , but neither of us was listening ; we were looking at a memory . |
| 14 | She flagrantly refused to do so , and I 'm not sufficiently a fool , knowing Arabs better than most , that Saddam took advantage of this knowing perfectly well we reneged on helping the Palestine Arabs , deliberately invaded Kuwait so that because he thought he could get away with it . |
| 15 | I tried to rouse him but I could n't so I sat on the bed to pull my boots on and the next minute I , too , was asleep . ’ |
| 16 | Yet Philip 's methods were those of his father and grandfather ; and although he had a clearer notion of feudal lordship and a broader canvas on which to exploit that lordship , even here he drew on his predecessors ' achievements . |
| 17 | ‘ Last year I won the Julie Rose 10K in a time which was within 10 seconds of my track best for the season , which is indicative of how badly I ran on the track . |
| 18 | I 've just built a spreadsheet to show how much we spent on subscriptions in 1991/92 and 1992/93 . |
| 19 | Additionally , many single people admit that they had not realised before how much they relied on their job for companionship and sometimes , even for part of their week-end social life . |
| 20 | There were pauses , then he banged the keys plaintively , going over the passages he had n't been able to get right , then suddenly he put on a record of the Chopin and played along with it , always two or three notes behind . |
| 21 | She did n't know how long she knelt on the cold floor with her mother still and silent in her arms . |
| 22 | Quite often she went on visits with Maman — shoots , race meetings , perhaps a ball or two , that kind of thing . |
| 23 | He never did , of course , and never would , but the fact that the threat had been made showed how strongly he felt on it . |
| 24 | Chapman said it would depend on how well he did on the Saturday . |
| 25 | Earlier today we touched on the fact that other members of your family may also have goals . |
| 26 | She had been surprised how hard he worked on the place . |
| 27 | Edward III 's orchestration of support for the war was skilful and successful , yet fundamentally he depended on the co-operation of the nobility , who recruited and led the contract armies that became increasingly important as the war continued . |
| 28 | And of course DaSilva erm , not flashing those strokes round like he did on that first innings er , playing a very sensible innings from the point of view of Sri Lanka , but his erm , have n't seen many of his flashing strokes . |
| 29 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
| 30 | Following a very rough crossing from Portsmouth during which I slept very little it dawned on me that we were on our own in a Renault van which was half a ton overweight , had a top speed of 60 mph , an up-hill speed of 40 mph provided you had a run at it , jumped out of fourth gear unless you held it in position and we had 1850 miles to go ! |