Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I 'd had the feeling before , a bit , the first couple of times I went up on the End , it was that much closer to the spindle . |
| 2 | Well now , during this twelve months I went out on the beats etcetera , I just merely picked it up , if I was in doubt about anything my sergeant would put me right and the atmosphere , the amount of discipline was quite severe , for instance , I always , we had always to parade at least ten minutes before the hour to be acquainted with what had happened since we were last on duty . |
| 3 | Charles remembered from working on The Strutters with him that George had always had an approximate approach to the text , relying , as did so many television actors , on a sort of paraphrase of the speeches which homed in on the right cue . |
| 4 | After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor . |
| 5 | Enclosure had been an exceedingly expensive business , not only the heavy legal costs which worked out on an average at about £1 an acre ( but were sometimes much heavier ) , but also the costs of making hundreds of yards of fences , which were heavier still . |
| 6 | Er you were called out at night and of course in those days you went round on a bicycle and you , you went round with your little black bag strapped on the back . |
| 7 | ‘ You can just see the sea from the nursery , ’ explains Prue , ‘ and if you stand on the loo and look out of that little window you can see all those cloverleaf intersections you drove over on the way in . |
| 8 | The screws who worked down on the block were absolute monsters . |
| 9 | Drawing the curtain across the windows she looked out on the gloomy , almost deserted street . |
| 10 | Despite his current good form , Stephens was one of the players who missed out on a Tour card at Montpelier last year . |
| 11 | I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones . |
| 12 | It was left to Western businessmen to manufacture CCCP T-shirts which ended up on the Soviet black market , an acute case of carrying coals to Newcastle . |
| 13 | It was only partly the men he had out on the streets and in the bazaars , the special agents like Georgiades . |
| 14 | The sky was heavy with rain-filled clouds which pressed down on the dome of St Paul 's as if to deflate it , and the wharves and warehouses bordering the river cowered like black giants in the smoky gloom . |