Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] on [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 2 | I 'll fill you in on the details before I leave . |
| 3 | I know you like hiking because I saw a photo of you in your little bum-freezers , so we 'll take you up on the moors and then call at Harry Ramsden 's for some fish ‘ n ’ chips . |
| 4 | I 'll sit you up on the pillows and you 'll be nice and comfy . ’ |
| 5 | Nothing to report to you now on the buses or the trains . |
| 6 | and she says she sat , she sat er still you know with her arms folded and all like that and she says , oh she says I think you er collect the books and stamp them and put them back on the shelves and she said they all laughed , but she got the job in opposition to er , a few others you know |
| 7 | And he can go on avoiding him forever on the grounds that he was the one who split the title . |
| 8 | Look what happened to Flaubert : a century after his death Sartre , like some brawny , desperate lifeguard , spent ten years beating on his chest and blowing into his mouth ; ten years trying to yank him back to consciousness , just so that he could sit him up on the sands and tell him exactly what he thought of him . |
| 9 | ‘ For fuck 's sake , and I do n't care who the hell he is — release him , throw him back on the streets and do n't touch him again . |
| 10 | Mark … the jockey that rode him to victory at Cheltenham has retired from the saddle but still rides him out on the gallops and is now helping to tarin him |
| 11 | She kissed him again on the lips before mouth followed the path her hands were taking . |
| 12 | He kissed her briefly on the lips and came into the flat , a slightly-built sandy-haired man in his mid-thirties wearing a heavy black overcoat over a sweater and cords . |
| 13 | She raised her face to him like a shy virgin , and he kissed her passionately on the lips while his fingers busily freed her of her underwear . |
| 14 | She kissed him lightly on the lips and rose from the bed to get dressed . |
| 15 | In the later seventeenth century a French duke turned it down on the grounds that his father , by holding it , had accumulated debts of 200,000 livres . |
| 16 | Hollywood would turn it down on the grounds that it held no street credibility . |
| 17 | John Major is understood to have offered her a junior minister 's job at the Home Office , but she turned it down on the grounds that it was not sufficiently senior . |
| 18 | I 'm not the best to s pick it up on the stitches and |
| 19 | Regular users of it wrap the edges round wooden batons , secured with a few tacks , leaving these to rest on the ground , and rolling it up on the batons when the season is over . |
| 20 | I think what radical feminism has done is popularised that and taken it out on the streets and provided a core of anger and rage and has mobilized women . |
| 21 | He takes it out on the children and myself ( not physically ) , has almost become an isolationist and is very difficult to live with . |
| 22 | It is , they 've give it out on the trains as you 're coming in |
| 23 | Sally came up to me , kissed me firmly on the lips and said , ‘ It 's late , Chris . |