Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 4 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The importance of locational specifications in general can be gauged from the fact that there seem to be two basic ways of referring to objects — by describing or naming them on the one hand , and by locating them on the other ( Lyons , 1977a : 648 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 9 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 10 | A health clinic has stepped in to help patients who ca n't find a dentist to treat them on the National Health Service . |
| 11 | They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | It should out-point them on the rough stuff , too , for the Range Rover is still king of the wild frontiers . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A van passed them on the other carriageway . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Their phone call came to my home in Hampstead inviting me to come to Toronto to meet them on the following Sunday . |
| 19 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 20 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 23 | Remove the stitches from the standard gauge machine with the garter bar and replace them on the chunky machine . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 26 | But while these were unfortunate , and inclined to make Rachel crumple up her forehead and lecture her on the scientific method and the importance of mental clarity , there was no real danger in such remarks . |
| 27 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 28 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 29 | At Aintree he beat The Thinker just over seven lengths and is due to meet him on the same terms , although Jimmy Frost , his rider , may put up a pound or two more than the minimum 10st . |
| 30 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |