Example sentences of "[adj] to [pers pn] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a month Renate had lost her job ( ‘ the complaint was that the girl was too slow ’ ) and had suffered a sharp decline in health , having contracted chronic catarrh , nervous debility and eczema of the scalp ‘ which made her unable to summon up the courage to get a haircut after a hairdresser had been very rude to her on the subject ’ . |
| 2 | It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through . |
| 3 | She had not known what to expect from this side of marriage since there was no literature available to her on the subject and her mother had told her nothing . |
| 4 | We 've been to visit him , he 's back to visit us , and he 's available to us on the phone for a year , and all of that 's covered by this Department of the Environment . |
| 5 | Agnes actually put her hands over her ears as she looked at Jessie sitting close to her on the edge of the bed . |
| 6 | The men who sat or lay near to him on the floor had watched with a curiosity that a man who was held in the Transit gaol at Pot'ma should concern himself with such a small matter as the pin-sharp biting of the louse . |
| 7 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 8 | A few minutes later , downstairs , Eva was next to me on the sofa , bathing my forehead and whispering , ‘ You silly boys , you silly boys . ’ |
| 9 | Sit next to me on the school bus ( tonight ) . |
| 10 | Sitting next to me on the plane was a Mrs Jackson . |
| 11 | I wish she was here , sitting next to me on the bench , holding my hand like she used to . |
| 12 | She patted the place next to her on the lip of the stone fountain . |
| 13 | Wearily he sat down next to her on the sofa and worried at his hair . |
| 14 | Jealous of Lubor ? ’ and did n't know where she was when , as if he did n't think much of sitting opposite her in one chair while she had the huge couch all to herself , Ven suddenly moved from his chair and came and sat down next to her on the couch . |
| 15 | Quietly pass her a note in our next lesson asking if I could sit next to her on the bus on the way home tonight . |
| 16 | He offered the seat next to him on the console . |
| 17 | I 'd like to see that silly next to us on the computer going into an exam and the machine wo n't work for her properly . |
| 18 | The old man sat next to us on the mastaba , a low adobe platform which ran round the walls of the front room of his house . |
| 19 | The phone was working again , the engineer had scribbled on the back of an envelope , and he was very sorry he had broken the table lamp standing next to it on the coffee table . |