Example sentences of "[vb past] on [noun sg] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Came on coach this morning , ’ I earwigged one middle-aged man telling another in an unadulterated northern accent . |
| 2 | As a result , the whole contract was completed on time and opened on schedule this week , less than a year after work on the site began . |
| 3 | The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising is to continue its campaign , which broke on TV this year , to reassert the industry 's effectiveness , according to IPA president Peter Mead . |
| 4 | - You start forgetting where you went on holiday this summer . |
| 5 | When the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East went on television that night to clean up the mess that his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition had put him into again , he did not look pleased about it . |
| 6 | The nighties went on sale this afternoon . |
| 7 | The first volume , which went on sale this year , is devoted sculpture , while the second , due out in 1993 , covers the Baptistry 's paintings . |
| 8 | A book about the security services during the Second World War , One Girl 's War by Joan Miller , published by Brandon Books , went on sale this week after the government lifted the ban it imposed on the book when it was published in 1986 , according to the Observer . |
| 9 | The provocative , practised performer they saw on stage that night was a niece to be proud of . |
| 10 | Is not it time that the Government took on board that question and began to tackle the problem of loan sharks positively ? |
| 11 | If he loses a vote of no-confidence in parliament , he could yet try to force such an election , appealing over parliament 's head to the voters — as he did on television this week . |