Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 To begin with Gyggle tried me on sensory deprivation .
2 ‘ It was to have children that Allah put her on this earth .
3 Mrs Helmsley , aged 69 , stood stony-faced as Judge John Walker sentenced her on 33 counts of tax evasion and conspiracy to evade taxes .
4 When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V
5 ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first .
6 Mrs Boswell had packed sheets in her husband 's luggage , and Joseph Ritter laid them on both beds .
7 Crossman joined it on 29th April 1969 .
8 Lord Cameron admonished him on that charge .
9 Sabrina kissed him on both cheeks then ran her hand lightly over his hair .
10 Raimondo kissed her on both cheeks , then clapped his hands and began barking out orders .
11 Umpire Frank Lee called him on 11 occasions for throwing in England 's only innings and , after the home side had wrapped up the game early , he was again called , in the exhibition match which followed , by the other umpire , Syd Buller , and was forced to complete his only over underarm .
12 HAMISH BOWLES met her on Long Island
13 After three or four casual meetings with the critic Mervyn Levy , Minton took him on one side at the Chelsea Arts Club and informed him of his homosexuality , not wishing to implicate Levy unwittingly with a man who , from a certain point of view , was beyond the pale .
14 Back at the house , Ilsa kissed me on both cheeks .
15 Cyril opened it on 22 June 43 1 , before the supporters of Nestorius had arrived .
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