Example sentences of "on [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all made it clear that handing patients over to the press was a regular occurrence ( a point that none of the committee commented on or asked questions about ) . |
| 2 | Only 18 to 25 per cent of the survey sample relied on or had their income topped up by the then supplementary benefit . |
| 3 | In 1897 Mr and Mrs Currer Briggs bought the most idyllic site they could lay their hands on and wrote to Mr Voysey the architect . |
| 4 | Upstairs , they switched taps on and flooded the bathroom and vandalised bedrooms . |
| 5 | She turned the light on and got out of bed . |
| 6 | Prentice put his shoe and sock back on and got to his feet , obviously in some pain when he stood . |
| 7 | Sandra : I turned a tap on and damped it down . |
| 8 | Then I told Springsteen not to invite any strangers in , or any of his friends for a party , put my flying jacket on and jogged downstairs to wind up Armstrong . |
| 9 | Rather , the literal words of the statute have to be relied on and followed . |
| 10 | All co-operative and good behaviour should be commented on and praised . |
| 11 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |
| 12 | The Leeds boss pointed the midfielder back on and had to be restrained by reserve official Brian Hill as he furiously remonstrated with referee Joe Worrall . |
| 13 | It had picked up quite a bit of loose weed which kept jamming in the top ring , but this was periodically removed by Mr Gardner who , by now , knew I had a good fish on and had been warned that any foul-ups at the net would seriously hinder his future fathering capabilities . |
| 14 | It approached sideways on and flung up its head , eye rolling . |
| 15 | When they had finished Bryony put the kettle on and asked again , ‘ What 's up ? ’ |
| 16 | He put the handbrake on and waited for her to slip her legs across the centre console , then he lifted himself up so that she could slide under him . |
| 17 | Lyn put the ring on and said it was a perfect fit . |
| 18 | I took a picture last night and put a plastic bag on and told the farmer we were n't going to put him in jail here and now . |
| 19 | Mr Bryant sacked the clerk but Jonathan kept Matthew on and told him he would have to pay all the money back out of his wages , so much a month . ’ |
| 20 | I wanted to cry there and then but I was in the ward surrounded by people who would want to dam up my tears , so I stood up , put my jacket on and walked out . |
| 21 | He pulled the garment on and zipped it up . |
| 22 | Gina came in , switched the light on and woke him up . |
| 23 | When he switched the light on and dragged the bedclothes back , he saw that his image of them had been perfect . |
| 24 | He switched the light on and looked at the clock . |
| 25 | He put his reading glasses on and looked more closely at it ; there were , he knew , dozens of different kinds of wood-lice , all classified , all named , distinguished by minute anatomical refinements , small but significant differences in the antennae or the genitalia . |
| 26 | Then I came down here , switched the light on and saw the room in disarray . ’ |
| 27 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 28 | He switched the engine on and swung the Audi out of the car-park , down Yorckstrasse towards the outskirts of the city . |
| 29 | Philip put his glasses on and stared at the boy . |
| 30 | Then my father went in and put his headstall on and led him out . |