Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back . |
2 | Folding the poem , I laid it on the table . |
3 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
4 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
5 | He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago . |
6 | 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 . ’ |
7 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
8 | When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse ! |
9 | ‘ I passed it on the way here from Bordeaux . |
10 | I clapped him on the back . |
11 | ‘ I got you on the bed and just lost my head completely . |
12 | That was , I got it on the coach quite a nice thing |
13 | ‘ I posed her on the sofa . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ‘ Sorry , Mrs Scamp , but I found 'em on the floor in the back of the cab . ’ |
17 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
18 | I think I caught her on the hop , for she was wearing trousers and sandals and … no , I can not remember what else … . |
19 | Yes , I think I caught her on the hop . |
20 | Under Lily Laverock 's auspices , she came to Vancouver on an annual concert tour , and when Marjorie Agnew and I approached her on the matter she was delighted to become a sponsor . |
21 | I seen it on the News — |
22 | Well do you know , out of all the girls who work New Year 's Eve right , I told them on the night , oh I said we 'll get about forty pound for tonight wo n't I , because it 's double time and I was the only one who complained about it when I had my pay . |
23 | Sally-Anne was by now in full flow , and when she paused for breath Dr Neil said , as drily as he could , ‘ I will only say to you what I told you on the day when you arrived here : it is useless to take the world 's burdens on your shoulders . |
24 | ‘ You heard it could be murder ? — yes , I told you on the phone . |
25 | But I told you on the phone did n't I , it rained and |
26 | ‘ I noticed them on the launch this morning . ’ |
27 | ‘ I showed him on the map where we would sink into the Atlantic if we did n't , ’ Capt Goebel said . |
28 | ‘ I showed him on the map where we would sink into the Atlantic if we did n't . ’ |
29 | I threw it on the cobble-stones and Elizabeth cried . |
30 | I threw it on the floor . |