Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NIBA too had to battle all the way against the PBA , but they only failed on one rink — that skipped by Rathfriland 's Gary McIlroy was beaten 26–14 by Eamon McCann . |
| 2 | Okay so got on that train , thinking it would go straight to Hertford and it did n't . |
| 3 | It seemed that the caretaker only came on fine days , so they were alone in the house . |
| 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 | The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place . |
| 7 | As Cnut himself only died on 12 November 1035 , it looks as though Alfred , and doubtless Edward too , were poised to act . |
| 8 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 9 | ‘ Better lay on some Fernet Branca for the morning , ’ said Dommie . |
| 10 | I only put on ten pounds — in fact I did look rather skinny amongst all the other opera singers . |
| 11 | The new biblical critics did not destroy the faith : they merely forced on intelligent people the distinction between history and church doctrine . |
| 12 | Also I just played on six tunes on Bruce Hornsby 's new record , with Bonnie Raitt and Phil Collins . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was bright and she was presentable , which meant that she already scored on two counts over the help that they 'd hired last year . |
| 15 | For us in Italy , war finally came on 10 june 1940 , when Mussolini declared war on France , which was already on its knees , and on Britain , whose soldiers had been driven out of Europe . |
| 16 | Liberation finally came on 10 May 1945 . |
| 17 | Having flicked through a few foreign magazines , the boys at Crawford House had made a shocking discovery that the rest of the world no longer climbed on soggy crags in the rain , but wore skimpy clothing , looked beautiful and climbed at Buoux instead . |
| 18 | The marble is Naxian , and Naxos dominates early marble sculpture , though quarries soon opened on neighbouring Paros and that marble was afterwards preferred . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Though begun in c. 1270 on an English plan , the cathedral soon developed on French lines under the Frenchman Étienne de Bonneuil . |
| 22 | One closure — the Clayton West branch service which ran from Huddersfield — finally succumbed on 22 January 1983 , because the West Yorkshire PTA declined to provide the subsidy . |
| 23 | Inevitably , however , the teacher-training target had to be adjusted downwards as the DES successively announced cuts in teacher-training provision in England and Wales before , in July 1977 , it finally settled on 2,900 places . |
| 24 | Shatila finally collapsed on 27 June 1988 , followed by Bourj el-Brajneh a few days later . |
| 25 | An abandoned salt mine near Carrickfergus , Northern Ireland , showed signs of activity in September and early October 1990 , and finally collapsed on 19 October , causing a depression 200 metres in diameter and 7 metres deep [ see photograph on page 19 ] . |
| 26 | We just started on different things you know . |
| 27 | The letter , which finally appeared on 19th October over the initials ‘ E.A.F. ’ , was a clearly stated argument why Gothic was more suitable for the Foreign Office than Classic . |
| 28 | She has never possessed boots or winter shoes : " I ca n't afford closed-in shoes , so I always wear sandals and in the winter I just put on two pairs of socks . " |
| 29 | I just stood on three bits when I come in . |
| 30 | The postponement of the opera ( it eventually opened on 13 January ) meant that Nannerl , who reached Munich on 4 January 1775 , was able to hear the first performance . |