Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |
| 2 | Okay so got on that train , thinking it would go straight to Hertford and it did n't . |
| 3 | Beware of becoming so fixated on this one position that you acquire a mental block against progressing further . |
| 4 | Sometimes when groups of horses get mixed up a foal may seem to get irrationally fixated on another horse . |
| 5 | I tell you in all candour that the option no longer exists , and that , insofar as it ever did exist , it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy , followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step . ’ ? |
| 6 | ‘ Better lay on some Fernet Branca for the morning , ’ said Dommie . |
| 7 | Fighting another NME writer over a woman ; having a pint of beer in the Roxy with Robert Plant ; realising that Sid Vicious could be fronted out because he only picked on those that he was likely to win against . |
| 8 | Actually just just quickly er I just noticed on that list of your questionnaires that we got back a couple that they did n't actually know what was going on . |
| 9 | With his television news background and now intimate knowledge of Middle East drugs trafficking , Coleman helped Ross and Silverman prepare what was generally considered to be as balanced and authoritative a survey of narco-terrorism as the media had ever presented to the American public , a contribution which they both generously acknowledged on several occasions afterwards and which subsequently led to Coleman 's appearance on NBC News after the Flight 103 disaster , although neither of them were aware then or before of his DIA/NARCOG affiliations . |
| 10 | The subject tends to intimidate many farmers and yet it was in some ways a natural extension of the record keeping and budgeting that already existed on most farms at present . |
| 11 | finally plumped on this really |
| 12 | When the former ruling order of Ethiopia defined itself as Amhara , it thus imposed on all other Ethiopians non-Amharaness . |
| 13 | We just touched on this on Tuesday night . |
| 14 | There was no heating in the room and an inadequacy of blankets , and I finally put on all my clothes again and tried my best to snuggle under the only blanket to snatch an hour of sleep . |
| 15 | Lady Selvedge then rose and made her little speech — the one she always made on these occasions , for the ‘ cause ’ , whether Church , Conservative Party or District Nursing Association , was always a good one and it was safe to urge her hearers to spend just a little more than they thought they could afford , however relative the amount might be . |
| 16 | Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college . |
| 17 | Even in an October sun one can get quickly dehydrated on these exposed slopes . |
| 18 | But even as he did so , he felt that the sentence , having been written , still existed on some other page . |
| 19 | But I could n't sa I could n't say that I ever worked on any of the big |
| 20 | However , once started on this track it may seem difficult to keep clear of rigorism , for it is unclear how the good one might have done but did not can be discounted from the things prevented by what one did instead . |
| 21 | They must off worked on that cat for hours to get into the . |
| 22 | This loco was affectionately known as the ‘ Retford Rocket ’ by the spotters at Victoria as it nearly always appeared on this working . |
| 23 | I remember Christmas Eve 1930 , when we went as we always did on that day to the High Street to look at the lighted shops , seeing a little girl in a tattered dress and with bare feet , her nose pressed at the toy-shop window . |
| 24 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 25 | Right now he was groping Joanna who had taken her top off , as she always did on these occasions . |
| 26 | Almost any small feature in a building or even a field wall may say something of the structures that once stood on such sites . |
| 27 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 28 | In view of the evasive comments he later made on this latter episode ( Canon Demant tells of his being pressed by some German students and saying that he was the last person to be able to answer them ) , I believe that he had experienced a moment of horrifying self-revelation ‘ of all that he had done and been ’ and thought , which had opened up a wound that could not heal . |
| 29 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |
| 30 | 54 , 63 , which also concentrated on those in detention , as follows : |