Example sentences of "on [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes er I think somebody kept it around father 's day , a chap named , but it was a beautiful old place and he always , because my father always used to erm start off about seven o'clock in the morning to walk down to Walkers and er call in at the White Hart because they were open at six o'clock in the morning , for a rum and coffee for about tuppence or thruppence , then he always used to er go to his mother 's for his breakfast and er he used to go down and see all the men start off and then , then slip over to his mother 's , she lived on the Road and er she , for years and years this went on that he had his break he never had his breakfast at home he 'd start off going down there and come back to his mother 's , but he always stopped at the White Hart for his rum and coffee |
| 2 | was taken on that she had one immediately sh , we lost dad |
| 3 | know what was going on until you got it sorted out . |
| 4 | He told me that if the police started questioning me they 'd keep on and on until I said something I should n't . |
| 5 | ‘ I did my teacher 's bit and told her to stay on until she got her leaving certificate . |
| 6 | the Beverley sisters were on and they said they used to wear very daring clothes and the B B C banned them from showing their navels , cos you 're not supposed to show your navel on television and you could n't say the word , oh yeah Lonnie Donegan was on and he said that he was banned from singing this song er in eighty forty was such a little drip and in it he says we beat the bloody British and they would n't let him sing that because he swore so he had to sing we beat the ruddy British |
| 7 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 8 | Well , you know , it you see , time were , I do n't know I suppose , I do n't know but I never seemed to be afraid and I used to have my or something round my waist , a belt with the keys hanging on and they supplied me with a as well , one of these , I do n't know what they 're made of they were n't all that heavy but still they were heavy enough to keep on . |
| 9 | Oh I shall never regret Er I do n't know but I 'm just perhaps one on me own , but er it could n't have been better for because I was a freelance and er I wanted to learn and wanted to get on and they allowed me , they allowed me to do what I wanted . |
| 10 | erm A lot of people gave as a reason for getting a particular piece of furniture the fact that it was given to them by their parents when they got married , or that a neighbour was trying to get rid of it , or that somebody from work had passed it on and they needed one . |
| 11 | If they started to cause trouble , we just asked them to move on and they appreciated it . |
| 12 | ‘ We attacked them , attacked them , attacked them all the way up that straight and round that bend but they kept pounding more and more on and they held us , ’ said Probert . |
| 13 | So then we had something to work on and we got him stroking Beth 's rear end . |
| 14 | Put some cheese on and we set it I said to Paul I said anyway your dinner 's ready when you are . |
| 15 | At last , wonder of wonders it was finished for the second time , I tried it on and it drowned me . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw your light was on and I thought you ought to know . |
| 17 | When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later ! |
| 18 | No I did n't actually , cos the news was you know coming on and I thought I do n't know whether there 'd be any on there |
| 19 | got myself ready I got my coat on and I said I 'll see you later |
| 20 | All , all my windows have got locks on and I said I 'm about six foot four and anyone gets in here I 'll kill them . |
| 21 | Prentice came on and I said who I was . |
| 22 | with her head to put her thing on and I said you ai n't got ta go . |
| 23 | I was over-qualified and signing on and I realised there was more money to be made taking my clothes off ’ . |
| 24 | I was over-qualified and signing on and I realised there was more money to be made taking my clothes off . |
| 25 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 26 | I picked her up and she were wet through , had to put fire on and I laid her in front of fire |
| 27 | And you carried on and I shot you dead I 'd get away with that . |
| 28 | she looks really weird without them on and I saw her like this |
| 29 | Yeah , a and in fact in the programme I th the one that Barbara was in , I can remember the er , as it happens , I , I was out er when that programme came on and I taped it so I s I , I 've still got that particular programme , and the lady at the end er on one of her questions she 'd obviously forgotten what she was going to say er and sort of made something up and er she turned to er as they were just panning away from her , she turned to her next door neighbour and more or less said I forgot what I was going to say , you know . |
| 30 | The hall light was still on and he put his ear to the letter box ; he could hear her voice on the telephone but could not distinguish her words . |