Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But , Father , I never meant to kill , when I slipped out alone , and went to wait for him on the path by which I knew he must return . |
2 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
3 | D' you reckon mom will agree to come with us on the skiing ? |
4 | In any proceeding in which no pre-trial review has been fixed , the district judge may nonetheless give notice to the parties requiring them to appear before him on the day named in the notice , so that the question of giving directions may be considered ( Ord 17 , rr 10 and 11(4) ) . |
5 | Yeah , so she 's going to come to me on the bus on the twenty third . |
6 | Julia went to stand beside him on the minute balcony and stared down across the valley . |
7 | Because it would have been childish to refuse she stepped out and went to stand beside him on the snow . |
8 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
9 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
10 | The occupants of this very undesirable residence with no mod. cons. were gobbling their way through two chicks a day each , which we continued to feed to them on the ledge , right near their box , every morning and late afternoon . |
11 | I used to talk to Him on the wireless — still do sometimes . |
12 | Or one of us would rush into the dressing room just before curtain-up and tell Terry there was someone who urgently needed to talk to him on the phone . |
13 | And I have to talk to him on the phone and I 'm saying speak to him very well . |
14 | Okay , well we 'll come back to that , if I may , in a moment , because I just want to move on again to another guest , who is waiting to talk to us on the telephone , and that is Lindsay McNeill , who is the Aviation Reporters for Travel News . |
15 | Well waiting to talk to us on the telephone now is Rupert Lancaster , who 's the managing director of Foders U K. |
16 | Alternatively , we would be happy to talk to you on the telephone if that is more convenient . |
17 | They were , indeed , a sorry and sadly bedraggled lot , so covered in diesel and smoke that it was quite impossible to discriminate among them on the basis of age , sex or nationality . |
18 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
19 | ‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’ |
20 | Svend Larsen had told him that the farm was becoming vacant and had offered to negotiate for it on the Colonel 's behalf , the islanders not wanting incomers to buy up farms for weekend occupation only . |
21 | I was disgusted to read your snide attack ( Disinformation , FACE 19 ) on ‘ White South African Musician Johnny Clegg ’ , who is one of the only white artistes in that country who has been fighting apartheid and trying to deal with it on the inside . |
22 | He returned to his workshop , hoping to bump into him on the way , but arrived without hearing or seeing a single trace of the forgetful scientist . |
23 | She slid across the bed , making room for Johnny to sit beside her on the mattress . |
24 | She swallowed a sob of pure terror at the memory and Penry jumped up to sit beside her on the bed . |
25 | He came to sit beside her on the sofa ; she felt him look at her , intently . |
26 | She went to sit beside him on the bed and read something tinny and long-winded about the recovery of Wall Street . |
27 | She stood and came over to sit beside him on the bed . |
28 | When the cart was ready , he called Gabriel to sit beside him on the driver 's bench . |
29 | At least she had her uncle Somerset to watch over her on the journey , and the countess of Salisbury to be a mother to her until she was handed over at Cologne to Louis . |
30 | It is a relief I suppose today , that I am able to speak to you on the basis erm of financial output which is a good deal more favourable than we expected even six months ago . |