Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion Clara 's class purchased a pound of sausages , took them in with them , and roasted them on one of the burners , and ate them , in full scent and in fairly good view ; Mrs Hill appeared not to notice , and talked quietly on of Boyle 's law . |
| 2 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 3 | We really felt that this was a book to push on , and so we talked to the trade very early on , consulted them on the jacket and so on . |
| 4 | She leaned in and pecked me on the lips . |
| 5 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 6 | I said , yeah , and you picked them up and looked at dates and chucked them on cart . |
| 7 | She seated me on her right , and I made my first direct pass as soon as we sat down . |
| 8 | If you did , if you failed them on a regular basis , you would n't be here , right ? |
| 9 | Tripoli postponed the elections until February ; Ajdabiyans confidently expected them on 1 February , and after that day the chairman of the local Assembly telephoned Tripoli each afternoon to ask if he should hold the poll . |
| 10 | He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted . |
| 11 | → If you took a dozen sheets of clear cellophane , drew around a dozen different guitar designs , including Strat , PRS , Ibanez , Jackson and various others , then laid them on top of one another , you 'd be surprised at how little difference there actually is between them . |
| 12 | So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely . |
| 13 | A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries . |
| 14 | On every anniversary of the crash she has picked small branches from the same tree and laid them on Day 's grave . |
| 15 | He took an envelope from his breast pocket , extracted three photos , laid them on the desk . |
| 16 | Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag . |
| 17 | She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass . |
| 18 | She picked up my underclothes from the floor and laid them on a chair . |
| 19 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 20 | Mrs Boswell had packed sheets in her husband 's luggage , and Joseph Ritter laid them on both beds . |
| 21 | Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top . |
| 22 | Champagne , fruit , cake , plates and knife — laid them on table . |
| 23 | George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf . |
| 24 | He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster . |
| 25 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |
| 26 | Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker . |
| 27 | I tipped about half of the cash into the box and then took a couple of shirts from the second bag and laid them on top of the remaining cash . |
| 28 | Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil . |
| 29 | But he s he met me on the road one day and he said to me , Miss , it would pay you to give a decent price for it , he said to me . |
| 30 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |