Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have asked me to write to congratulate you on this well deserved honour , and I am very pleased to do so . |
| 2 | like that , no one knew , I was driving the car and I recorded everything that was in the car all night no one knew until the end of the night , I got the tape home , I go this is gon na be interesting I had to do it on one of my tapes though |
| 3 | Mm , mm I 'd of put them in the , even with these new glasses I these dark ones , you know the dark ones I had to put them on this morning I had to put these dark glasses on cos the light hurt me eyes , so I had to put these on |
| 4 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 5 | No , I have to leave it on all the time |
| 6 | I have to leave it on all the time though . |
| 7 | And you used to er stand this on a house brick , like it might be on there , and you had another long stick and you use to hit it on one end and as it flew in the air you see it used to fly up then you used to have to hit it as far as you |
| 8 | Yeah , that 's what I mean , you have to do it on one two three . |
| 9 | They 've now taken the ramps out , which is a breach of the planning condition again , so we intend to pursue them on that , and they are offering , believe it or not that disabled people can be taxied from one side of the station to the other side of the station . |
| 10 | We never did persuade them , but for six valuable hours we managed to hold them on that course far out into the Flores Sea , until finally they came to their senses , noticed the distant and almost invisible shore , and hurriedly tacked towards it again . |
| 11 | I 'm sorry Mr , I think we have to press you on this , can I can I take it from what you have said We have to press you because for the reasons we explained on Friday morning , we have to go through the sector sites , if only to find at the end it can not be done . |
| 12 | But as they started to grill him on such matters as his attitude to South Africa and Northern Ireland , it was his actions , not his befuddled replies , which riveted the panel 's attention . |
| 13 | and er that may sound er a bit exaggerated but I can assure you that 's what happened , that er , to go to , to be able to file these , these little scraps of paper they had to stick it on another sheet |
| 14 | ‘ But when it was finished , they refused to show it on any of their ships . |
| 15 | Yeah , yes , but there there 's got ta come a time when they have to test it on human beings . |
| 16 | No he wants to tape us on some sort of tape . |
| 17 | He seemed to resent them on that occasion and will not wear them today . |
| 18 | He seemed to resent them on that occasion and will not wear them today |
| 19 | If Councillor wants to go and get a G B H haircut it tends to confuse us on this side of the er as to exactly what we are debating . |
| 20 | Yeah the l that 's the laughable thing as well , he tries to criticize it on ideological grounds |
| 21 | When , for example , Myra played disappointingly in the Scottish Girls ' after having made so big an impact at the Scottish Championship at Lossiemouth , he had to take her on one side and explain that she was far too exhausted , physically , to be able to give of her best : " I told her that she had to learn to pace herself and decide which tournaments she felt to be important . " |
| 22 | But he had to keep us on that . |
| 23 | ‘ I bet he manages to land them on poor old John in the end . ’ |