Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 So this afternoon I had him on the settee
2 He had reached six when he played at a ball down the leg side which hit him on the thigh , with the bat some inches away , and was taken by Dujon .
3 Laurie , known to the boxing boys as Lol , believes boxing can give ‘ lads with fire in their belly ’ an ambition which keeps them on the straight and narrow .
4 They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump .
5 In his key he differentiates them on the number of arm spines and suggested that A. grandis could be separated from A. otteri by its ridged proximal ventral arm plates and by a lower number of arm spines .
6 We talked a lot during those months on the same bench together , and it was his influence which set me on the trade union path .
7 This action by the creditor set in motion the issuing , by the clerk , of a writ or summons which was formally delivered to an officer of the Chief Bailiff who served it on the defendant at his house .
8 Then , with a girl who loved him on the seat of his bike , he came to a bridge he was never to cross .
9 Disengaging his bleeding hand , Angel One wiped it on the quivering hide of his latest victim .
10 Cos it i it should n't just be your preparation should not just be a one-off hour hour and a half what have you on the Sundays when you come along .
11 When Bruno landed his Radio One job , she followed him south , a move which put her on the road to showbiz fame when she was signed up to host Saturday morning kids ' show , Going Live .
12 gave it to Tim and Tim holded it in the right he put it on the floor and Ian pricked him .
13 As she prepares to go for gold at the World Cross Country Championships in the Spanish seaside town of Amorebieta , the South African could not help sadly recalling the drama surrounding the 1988 event which left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown .
14 On one occasion she threw him on the floor and on another she had deliberately broken his toys .
15 Fuck Jean remember the day we found her on the floor ?
16 And one after the other they kissed her on the cheek .
17 Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago
18 Solid and secret behind a high stone wall it remains a world apart from the crawling traffic which skirts it on the routes out of town .
19 ‘ When he talks to you he makes you feel as if you are the only person in the entire world , ’ said one woman who met him on the campaign trail .
20 Yeah oh yes he oh and he was erm being better educated than the majority of people in the Pleck he used to stand outside the Brown Lion to read the newspaper out to them cos they could n't read , and he attended all the weddings , all the funerals and er made the wills out and he almost was the father confessor for the Pleck , and when the old steam tram came off the lines down in the Pleck , when there was a steam train coming through there , he was the man who put it on the rails again .
21 When I 'm fighting my sister he kicks me on the wotsit . ’
22 She was taking off her hat and coat as she spoke ; then going over to her aunt , she bent down and kissed her on the cheek , and followed this with the same salutation for her uncle ; and in response he patted her on the shoulder .
23 And I was only doing up here but er , that 's good enough , sort of thing I kissed her on the lips a couple
24 I can not trace any acknowledgment from you of the memorandum I sent you on the twelfth of this month , regarding your talents and the scope for them in this office .
25 To try to discover the form which put him on the verge of Ryder Cup honours in 1989 he finished 17th on the money list that year Walton has gone through around a dozen putters .
26 I went out to the powder-room and as I was going back into the restaurant somebody tapped me on the shoulder .
27 The rational consumer will choose point W on the budget line which places him on the highest attainable indifference curve , I 1 , .
28 On 2 November the ban on the 5 October route was challenged by fifteen DCAC members who walked it , accompanied by a large crowd who followed them on the footpaths .
29 If you already receive Housing Benefit we will automatically work out your Poll Tax Benefit from the information you gave us on the ‘ Review ’ form we recently sent .
30 He now faces the agony of receiving a letter she told him on the phone that she 'd written the day before she died .
  Next page