Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [pers pn] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm laying it on the table . |
| 2 | Er , no I think I 'm having him on the Monday cos she 's going to have her hair permed |
| 3 | Well , he said , I 'm putting them on the train and they 'll be in Valley on the seven o'clock train for you On Friday night this was . |
| 4 | Well I erm I 'm basing it on the Tower Hamlets model . |
| 5 | I like him , I was watching him on the telly the other day , I think he seemed nice . |
| 6 | Or maybe , the other ends got hot while I was a-tapping them on the anvil . ’ |
| 7 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |
| 8 | Well , I was putting it on the foil and I thought : ‘ This could kill me ’ , but it was that strong the urge to have it , I did n't care . |
| 9 | He put a solicitor down , and last time I spoke with him I was defending him on a for fraud . |
| 10 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |
| 11 | Chubb has sold 47.5m Sun shares to brokers S G Warburg , Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs who are placing them on the market . |
| 12 | Understand that you are not shutting the door on the one you loved , but you are shutting it on the negative force that lived — or still lives — within them . |
| 13 | whether you 're dropping it on the putting the acid to the the alkal the the metal , the alkali , the base or the carbonate , the salt is always a salt of the acid . |
| 14 | You 're breaking me on the rack of your virtue . ’ |
| 15 | There 's just time for a quick flip through the Highway Code and then your , but the test is even more daunting when you 're taking it on a 15 ton steam roller . |
| 16 | Well that thing 's pretty easy if you 're doing it on the beach but what if you 're out in the water and it suddenly gusts up . |
| 17 | so like perhaps , say six weeks you 're doing it on the voluntary basis |
| 18 | Tell them what you were telling me on the phone yesterday … ’ |
| 19 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 20 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 21 | The People 's Hotel is on a grand scale , and we drive in style to the Foreign Language Institute , where our course takes place , every day , in company with Comrade Gao ( Ministry of Education ) , Comrade Yu ( our local interpreter ) and Comrade Wu ( a lady in her forties who is accompanying us on the rest of our tour ) . |
| 22 | Another method of learning to hover with the model facing you is to place it on the ground in this attitude and learn to fly again from scratch . |
| 23 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 24 | The woman was holding on to him with one arm , and with the other she was pounding him on the back , very hard . |
| 25 | Tommy , who was accompanying them on the mouth-organ , noticed that Charlie could n't take his eyes off Rose the barmaid who , although on the wrong side of thirty , never stopped flirting with the young recruits . |
| 26 | Essentially it mean that er the work is is more or less complete and therefore we are pricing it on the basis of the actual out turn of costs . |
| 27 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 28 | I 'd be looking for sixty five for ours , if we were to put it on the market , I mean we 're not |
| 29 | T frankly , yes it did , but I mean you were reading it pretty well correctly the way they read I mean most of us read things I know I do myself , one reads things quicker than perhaps some would if we were reading them on a radio or something . |
| 30 | Well Billy 's name 's Billy and you know we was writing it on the floor just after we found that out his second name , and , and they said B J ! |