Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
| 2 | But erm when we , by the time we got into Hull I heard it on the radio what had happened and we went to the toy fair and then we came back and there was er you could see all the ambulances and everything still there . |
| 3 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 4 | He had reached six when he played at a ball down the leg side which hit him on the thigh , with the bat some inches away , and was taken by Dujon . |
| 5 | Laurie , known to the boxing boys as Lol , believes boxing can give ‘ lads with fire in their belly ’ an ambition which keeps them on the straight and narrow . |
| 6 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 7 | In his key he differentiates them on the number of arm spines and suggested that A. grandis could be separated from A. otteri by its ridged proximal ventral arm plates and by a lower number of arm spines . |
| 8 | At least it keeps them from the dangers which await them on the streets . |
| 9 | I see you later than , oh where 's the car keys I had them on the . |
| 10 | We talked a lot during those months on the same bench together , and it was his influence which set me on the trade union path . |
| 11 | This action by the creditor set in motion the issuing , by the clerk , of a writ or summons which was formally delivered to an officer of the Chief Bailiff who served it on the defendant at his house . |
| 12 | Then , with a girl who loved him on the seat of his bike , he came to a bridge he was never to cross . |
| 13 | Disengaging his bleeding hand , Angel One wiped it on the quivering hide of his latest victim . |
| 14 | Cos it i it should n't just be your preparation should not just be a one-off hour hour and a half what have you on the Sundays when you come along . |
| 15 | We rely on the good advice of our solicitors who advise us on the appropriate action to take . |
| 16 | When Bruno landed his Radio One job , she followed him south , a move which put her on the road to showbiz fame when she was signed up to host Saturday morning kids ' show , Going Live . |
| 17 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 18 | gave it to Tim and Tim holded it in the right he put it on the floor and Ian pricked him . |
| 19 | Cos , at home you see er Dorothy and Trevor always read their stories in bed , and when I read their stories I have me on the arm chair two sitting on one chair arm |
| 20 | As she prepares to go for gold at the World Cross Country Championships in the Spanish seaside town of Amorebieta , the South African could not help sadly recalling the drama surrounding the 1988 event which left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 21 | Tears jumped into Evelyn 's eyes and she started to hurry in the direction of the girls ' barracks , ignoring the missiles which caught her on the back and arms or dropped uselessly on either side . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | And that 's why we tell them and there are some other things you tell them on the phone of course which you 'll find out about on the training school . |
| 24 | On one occasion she threw him on the floor and on another she had deliberately broken his toys . |
| 25 | Fuck Jean remember the day we found her on the floor ? |
| 26 | And one after the other they kissed her on the cheek . |
| 27 | For instance , when we did Jesus He Knows Me on the newest album , he said ‘ Live , I think we 'll want a guitar solo at the end of this , and it has to be a kind of fast , frantic type of guitar solo . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 29 | These are known as ‘ Kent peg tapered tiles ’ as they narrow in length , holes being incorporated at the narrow ends to accept wooden pegs which locate them on the roofing battens . |
| 30 | Solid and secret behind a high stone wall it remains a world apart from the crawling traffic which skirts it on the routes out of town . |