Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letter is brief and unsigned , saying only that my lord wishes me to call on him at the Garden Tower at my earliest convenience . |
| 2 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 3 | If he came on them in the darkness and they were … but she would n't … it was perfectly natural … she was eighteen and he … |
| 4 | I got , do n't know if they stop doing it altogether now , I really do n't know what erm , you see , I 've got an old one , but it says on it on the voucher it 's not trans none transferable . |
| 5 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 6 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 7 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 8 | He sat on it with the two little girls and gave them a big smile . |