Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 2 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 3 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 4 | Certainly , according to Hardie , ‘ in the case of allocating insurance premiums on particular lines of cover when setting individual budgets for the following year , head offices could look at their operating units ’ past claims records and load them on the poor performers while even awarding the equivalent of no claims bonuses to the good ones . |
| 5 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 6 | A health clinic has stepped in to help patients who ca n't find a dentist to treat them on the National Health Service . |
| 7 | They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health . |
| 8 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 9 | It should out-point them on the rough stuff , too , for the Range Rover is still king of the wild frontiers . |
| 10 | When he spied his guests , he jumped to his feet and called a greeting , straightening the chairs and holding them one after the other to steady them on the uneven gravel while they sat down . |
| 11 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 12 | A van passed them on the other carriageway . |
| 13 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 14 | Their phone call came to my home in Hampstead inviting me to come to Toronto to meet them on the following Sunday . |
| 15 | ‘ I think I caught everyone on the wrong foot at Ayresome Park when I increased my shareholding to 48 per cent earlier in the season . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 17 | Manchester United wait on Bryan Robson 's decision on his fitness for the Rumbelows Cup Final against Nottingham Forest today , and hope to use the match to launch them on the final leg of their title procession . |
| 18 | Remove the stitches from the standard gauge machine with the garter bar and replace them on the chunky machine . |
| 19 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 20 | Detectives say someone on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night . |
| 21 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 22 | That they were left to themselves is evident , for Eusebius of Nicomedia , who was close to Constantine , found himself on the losing side in the debate about the relationship between Father and Son , defeated by a group led by a mere deacon ( though soon to be a bishop ) , Athanasius of Alexandria . |
| 23 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 24 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 25 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |
| 26 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 27 | ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard . |
| 28 | It is equally sensible for you , too , to be in membership of a trade union representing you on the appropriate negotiating body , and you are encouraged so to do . |
| 29 | He [ Chang ] said that the fact Korea found itself on the other side of that line as defined in Acheson 's address , combined with the House action yesterday , appeared to raise the serious question as to whether the United States might now be considered as having abandoned Korea . |
| 30 | European civilization was the first to impose itself on the whole surface of the globe . |