Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slid across the bed , making room for Johnny to sit beside her on the mattress . |
| 2 | I mean you get Sweet Fanny Adams done with them on the run up to Christmas anyway , E.l.S . |
| 3 | Their conversation ceased as the eloquent tones of Michael Stein carried towards them on the public address system . |
| 4 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 5 | In one account of the visit , it is said that the Emperor was loathe to allow the doctor to leave China and did so only after Garvine appealed to him on the grounds that he wished to return to Scotland and attend to his aged and ailing father . |
| 6 | At least she had her uncle Somerset to watch over her on the journey , and the countess of Salisbury to be a mother to her until she was handed over at Cologne to Louis . |
| 7 | When the cart was ready , he called Gabriel to sit beside him on the driver 's bench . |
| 8 | But his baptism , administered to him by another , sealing physically upon him the objectiveness of what Christ did for him on the cross , that was indeed a ground of assurance . |
| 9 | He met poets like Ungharetti and Montale , and had an audience with Pope Pius XII — the Pontiff spoke to him on the theme of poetry and religion , although Eliot knew quite enough about that subject already . |
| 10 | As Mr Mansell hesitated , Emerson Fittipaldi from Brazil and Arie Luyendyk from Holland zoomed past him on the main straight . |
| 11 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 12 | Kate stirred beside him on the sofa , and Peter smelled her perfume . |
| 13 | Antonietta sat beside her on the settee and explained that a doctor would be along soon . |
| 14 | As she sat down on the couch , Ben sat opposite her on the settle , his big body and large head topping the back of it while his short legs hardly touched the floor . |
| 15 | His spirits sank again at the prospect and although he went out to Ruislip where his former battalion now had its headquarters , and although he was received by Colonel Bumford , his spirits were at zero three days later when Charity spoke to him on the telephone . |
| 16 | The bill was approved by the House of Representatives — where the LDP had an overall majority — on Dec. 3 , even though the DSP voted against it on the grounds that it provided insufficient legislative control over the dispatch of troops . |
| 17 | Perhaps he should have directed his appeal directly to honest John sitting opposite me on the Treasury Bench , who may well be able to persuade his fellow member of Cabinet that he should |
| 18 | Charlotte sat opposite me on the sofa , like a little child with a serious , thoughtful face . |