Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To begin with Gyggle tried me on sensory deprivation . |
| 2 | At Stackpoole Junction the two railwaymen put her on another train and sent her home . |
| 3 | ‘ It was to have children that Allah put her on this earth . |
| 4 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |
| 5 | Mrs Helmsley , aged 69 , stood stony-faced as Judge John Walker sentenced her on 33 counts of tax evasion and conspiracy to evade taxes . |
| 6 | The taxpayer received it on 8 December and it was lodged in the High Court on 15 January 1991 . |
| 7 | When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V |
| 8 | ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first . |
| 9 | Thick hedgerows surrounded it on three sides . |
| 10 | Mrs Boswell had packed sheets in her husband 's luggage , and Joseph Ritter laid them on both beds . |
| 11 | Crossman joined it on 29th April 1969 . |
| 12 | Lord Cameron admonished him on that charge . |
| 13 | Sabrina kissed him on both cheeks then ran her hand lightly over his hair . |
| 14 | At the end , the photographer kissed her on both cheeks . |
| 15 | Raimondo kissed her on both cheeks , then clapped his hands and began barking out orders . |
| 16 | Umpire Frank Lee called him on 11 occasions for throwing in England 's only innings and , after the home side had wrapped up the game early , he was again called , in the exhibition match which followed , by the other umpire , Syd Buller , and was forced to complete his only over underarm . |
| 17 | Only one person managed it on public transport . |
| 18 | HAMISH BOWLES met her on Long Island |
| 19 | Trees surrounded it on all sides . |
| 20 | The Colonel kissed him on both cheeks . |
| 21 | The same Inspector had me on another thing . |
| 22 | After three or four casual meetings with the critic Mervyn Levy , Minton took him on one side at the Chelsea Arts Club and informed him of his homosexuality , not wishing to implicate Levy unwittingly with a man who , from a certain point of view , was beyond the pale . |
| 23 | Although the jury acquitted him on one murder charge , it was deadlocked over a second and a riot charge , and a retrial was arranged for Sept. 17 . |
| 24 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 25 | Acting on a French tip-off , the British police arrested him on 6 June 1931 , along with a young woman , Li Sam , described as his niece but more probably his mistress . |
| 26 | After a parliamentary investigation 's report named him on 3 February , Grenoble 's chief prosecutor called off an anti-Mafia investigation , saying the release of the report had wasted months of work by alerting Pagano that he was under suspicion . |
| 27 | A master asked him on one occasion whether a word was nominative or dative , and back came his answer : ‘ I do n't really care , sir ! ’ |
| 28 | Back at the house , Ilsa kissed me on both cheeks . |
| 29 | An answer that the Under-Secretary gave me on 15 October 1990 suggested that a fair number of warning signals would be available . |
| 30 | In 1988 , when a Conservative backbencher , Robert Adley , tried to get diplomatic relations restored , Foreign Office ministers briefed him on British preconditions . |