Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jarvis opened the case he had brought on the vestibule floor , carried the typewriter into Remove , where he put it on one of the desks , and took his clothes upstairs . |
| 2 | Although I take her on short trips to the shops , she ca n't cope with going too far from the house . |
| 3 | The tent-pole bag was torn , so I put it on one side with the sewing kit . |
| 4 | Right so you do it on other side and then work out what that comes to , so why did you multiply that side by a hundred ? |
| 5 | the other one , so we left it on that channel , channel nine I think it were . |
| 6 | The Larrikins , who can be traced back to 1870 in Australia , were also organised into local gangs or ‘ pushes ’ , and even allowing for exaggeration and over-involvement ( we need not readily accept , for example , that they gorged themselves on raw meat or rigged elections by terrorising voters , as was sometimes alleged ) their behaviour was unbeatably appalling . |
| 7 | Once you have become used to the exercise you will find that it helps you on many an occasion when you feel tension mounting within you . |
| 8 | I am sorry , but the Prime Minister — I am sure without any intention — is not right about the way that he expressed himself on that point . |
| 9 | and I had it on right and he came in right , and I was going , he was going , a long conversation all about little Harmony and everything and really going onto it , and I went to play it back and it had n't recorded anything . |
| 10 | And I arranged it on that day at the time . |
| 11 | I get a bucketful of water and I heat it on this little stove and I strip and wash myself all over . ’ |
| 12 | I had a clear view of them from a branch of a tree that overhung the water , and I watched them on several occasions . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend has chosen a particularly important subject for today 's debate , and I congratulate him on that . |
| 14 | I do not want to add to the controversy that we had earlier by saying that , yet again — and I congratulate them on this — our colleagues have obtained more in the English legislation than we have — The Minister indicates dissent , but I won the last argument and I am not sure whether he wants another one at this late hour . |
| 15 | Of course , America is a different story , and I have it on good authority that Harmonys still abound there . |
| 16 | If I get something on one of them to s to look as though I 've |
| 17 | That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time . |
| 18 | And you put it on that |
| 19 | cos she wanted it on sixty weeks |
| 20 | If she kept everything on this level there would be no danger of his probing into her background . |
| 21 | MOTHER had a wonderful phrase if she felt something on That Was The Week That Was was too outspoken or perhaps a little too daring . |
| 22 | if you exclude somebody on objective criteria |
| 23 | even the box if you strike it on that , that will |
| 24 | It 's dangerous if you leave it on all night — you can start a fire and that if you ai n't careful . |
| 25 | Cos we had it on one |
| 26 | But we never really believed that John Major was a sports fan until we saw him on that bleak Sunday afternoon at Stamford Bridge . |
| 27 | W we tried internment before , it caused a massive escalation of violence cos you never , you get families are angry , it escalates the numbers who are committed to terrorism , last time it was just the Republicans , if we did it on both sides it would just escalate terrorism . |
| 28 | Still if we move them on fifty five quid I reckon nice set that 'll tempt somebody . |
| 29 | Cos they had the , the expensive yarns and they produced them on these machines with very little waste . |
| 30 | And they get them on one machine ? |