Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
| 2 | So I kissed her on the cheek . |
| 3 | So she put them on the plate and she might want to work out what would three lots of two come to . |
| 4 | So she hit him on the face to make him prick his ears ! |
| 5 | So he tapped him on the shoulder and Dad being a big chap with big chest just said er S Do you know my lad ? |
| 6 | So he started me on the on politics , and he was very good . |
| 7 | Tenderly she laid it on the bed . |
| 8 | Well I did it on the way . |
| 9 | there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one . |
| 10 | Two months ago he put it on the market for £2 million . |
| 11 | Then I tried it on the pasture , but that was a bit rough , so I thought I would ride it down the new road through the iron gate leading out of my land . |
| 12 | Then she placed it on the flames . |
| 13 | Leaning across she kissed him on the cheek . |
| 14 | Then they clapped me on the back with too many hands , thrust upon me the plastiform wafer that confirmed payment of the rest of my fee , and proclaimed that they would create a song for the festival in praise of ’ the , most safe and reliable Delmore Curb , master courier ’ . |
| 15 | Then he laid her on the bed and feasted his eyes on her , slender and seductive , totally naked except for the glowing ruby that flashed fire whenever she moved her hand . |
| 16 | For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes . |
| 17 | I bent forward to see if I could recognise him — there was something vaguely familiar about him , the voice perhaps — and then he hit me on the side of my head — ’ Poor Miss Watson faltered and her eyes filled with tears at the memory of that vicious blow . |
| 18 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 19 | I was still gagging up the last few dregs when somebody punched me on the cheek , sending the other side of my head banging against the metal wall of the shelter . |
| 20 | ‘ We also want to know exactly how Garland spent his time from Saturday afternoon when his father died to last night when somebody shot him on the wharf . |
| 21 | Confronted with Donna 's exuberant wardrobe , she realized there were only two courses open to her : either she took it on the chin ( ‘ straight spine , old girl , ’ ) , or she slunk away and refused to answer the phone when Donna called to see why she had n't been met . |
| 22 | She was floating — in the same way as the keys did n't when she released them on the Moon . |
| 23 | That 's why we won it on the line . ’ |