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

No	Sentence
1	That was a nice picture — Marie liked it I think , cos she did n't mind me sticking it on the wall .
2	The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss .
3	Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum .
4	I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back .
5	Folding the poem , I laid it on the table .
6	The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign .
7	At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter .
8	I met her on a colectivo here in the capital , standing face to face in the rush-hour crowds .
9	I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says
10	He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago .
11	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 . ’
12	Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’
13	When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse !
14	Although regretting the need for such prosecutions , may I congratulate him on the vigour with which he prosecutes those who peddle such odious doctrines ?
15	Might I congratulate you on the birth of Henry , or Harry as I notice he is to be called from the announcement in the papers .
16	‘ I passed it on the way here from Bordeaux .
17	yeah , so anyway erm , he bought the car in to tell me that , garage down here , five hundred and forty eight pound labour right and that was put on another wing , save repairing the wing , put a new on , so what I did with mine is , I put on a new wing , right , and reduced the labour by sixty five quid to four hundred and five , I make plenty on the parts
18	I clapped him on the back .
19	and I got one on the C's .
20	‘ I got you on the bed and just lost my head completely .
21	That was , I got it on the coach quite a nice thing
22	‘ I posed her on the sofa .
23	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 .
24	‘ I found myself on a level with the whole of the French people ; my new companions … were miners , navvies , workers in metal and wood .
25	IN FEBRUARY 1985 I found myself on a flight scheduled for the Yemen Arab Republic , now called Yemen since its amalgamation with the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen in May 1990 .
26	Taking a couple of rights , I found myself on the ramp of lower Eighth Avenue — a medium-poor people 's district , I assumed .
27	But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . )
28	IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere .
29	Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her .
30	In Hamburg and elsewhere I talked to several former U-boat captains and instead of the brash abrasive characters I had expected , I found them on the whole to be men of sensibility and humour .