Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mme Pettifer , my man Georges , I think , has consulted with you on the subject of the wines . |
| 2 | Having seen last year 's giant-killers Canada get a taste of their own medicine in Pool F , losing to the impressive Koreans ( 16–12 ) , Fiji soon realised that the other seeds were going to struggle to live with them on the rice-paddy pitch . |
| 3 | Another person with a very busy schedule , it was good of her to find time to come to speak to us on the subject of working with the mentally handicapped . |
| 4 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
| 5 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
| 6 | He came to sit beside her on the sofa ; she felt him look at her , intently . |
| 7 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 8 | Mr Woods ' teenage daughter Michelle , who 'd gone with him on the trip , witnessed the accident . |
| 9 | You let go of them on the Moon . |
| 10 | Yeah , so she 's going to come to me on the bus on the twenty third . |
| 11 | Okay , well we 'll come back to that , if I may , in a moment , because I just want to move on again to another guest , who is waiting to talk to us on the telephone , and that is Lindsay McNeill , who is the Aviation Reporters for Travel News . |
| 12 | Well waiting to talk to us on the telephone now is Rupert Lancaster , who 's the managing director of Foders U K. |
| 13 | Svend Larsen had told him that the farm was becoming vacant and had offered to negotiate for it on the Colonel 's behalf , the islanders not wanting incomers to buy up farms for weekend occupation only . |
| 14 | You know , if you ca n't sell it at home , you know , you get rid of it on the world market . |
| 15 | I wondered if her presence was an invitation ; I felt that if I stretched out my hand to grasp hers she would have sat by me on the bed . |
| 16 | Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back . |
| 17 | Or one of us would rush into the dressing room just before curtain-up and tell Terry there was someone who urgently needed to talk to him on the phone . |
| 18 | I would have said to you on the phone we do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 19 | I will probably have spoken to you on the ‘ phone before you get this note , but just in case not I thought I would let you know how things are going . |
| 20 | ‘ We could have signed to they on the type of deal that would have worked against their own long-term interest in relation to creative control . |
| 21 | Could something have happened to her on the way home last night ? |
| 22 | She went to sit beside him on the bed and read something tinny and long-winded about the recovery of Wall Street . |
| 23 | But , Father , I never meant to kill , when I slipped out alone , and went to wait for him on the path by which I knew he must return . |
| 24 | Julia went to stand beside him on the minute balcony and stared down across the valley . |
| 25 | Because it would have been childish to refuse she stepped out and went to stand beside him on the snow . |
| 26 | Yeah I was gon na move erm on a suggestion that we had not been convinced of the need for this consortium by er , so far and and that certainly we as an authority er , have remained opposed to it on the grounds that we 've stated the terms of accountability in terms of the er , sensitivity to local needs in terms of transport issues and in terms of the clear intention to restrict patient choice erm which I think is a key think which should be emphasised |
| 27 | We had lunch on the side of the valley as a polar bear lay sleeping opposite us on the other side ! |
| 28 | He had drowned , unable to move , when the rising tide had filled the channel : Marie remembered seeing about it on the local television news . |
| 29 | If he 'd done something to or around the horses , I thought , then he had to have travelled with us on the train . |
| 30 | I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’ |