Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 2 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |
| 3 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 4 | As you recall that successful scene , whenever something comes up that you enjoyed jot it down on the sheet entitled ‘ I would like more of this ! ’ |
| 5 | I felt disillusioned , stale and cynical and I wanted to take a break before I started taking it out on the callers . |
| 6 | They preferred to sit it out on the Fosse Way . |
| 7 | Most of you did roughed it out on the back and some very quick workers who got it back in the front . |
| 8 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 9 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 10 | It was nearly forty years since the history master had bawled him out on the pavement over there , in front of the House of Commons . |
| 11 | ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’ |
| 12 | That she had n't heard of the plan was scarcely surprising , since Belinda had made it up on the spur of the moment . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going to the bathroom , ’ said Philip , putting the stupid lamp that his Mum had bought him back on the window-sill . |
| 14 | Still she could hear her own cries , as she had begged to be released — but nay , he had flung her down on the stone floor and leaned over her . |
| 15 | He had found the second-hand playpen advertised on a newsagent 's board in Norwich and had brought it back on the top of the van . |
| 16 | When I had stretched him out on the floor , I stood over him . |
| 17 | At the end of each day my pillow was so soaked in saliva that I had to wring it out on the floor . ’ |
| 18 | He arrived at the Great Northern station half an hour earlier than he had been instructed and immediately reported to the sergeant who had signed him up on the previous day . |
| 19 | They agreed to phase them out on the same timetable applying in their own countries , and faster than required by the Montreal Protocol ( the international agreement on protecting the ozone layer — see ED 52 ] . |
| 20 | He decided to play it like a bunker shot , nothing fancy because we were three in the lead ; he only wanted to put it out on the fairway and make a par 5 . |
| 21 | He wanted to press his mouth to her softly parted lips and taste the sweetness within , he wanted to push aside the loosely tied neck of her shift and let his hand savour the warmth of her flesh , he wanted to lay her back on the bed and hold her against him as he had at the river-crossing ; he wanted her . |
| 22 | Mr Crosby wanted to take them back on the pitch but was prevented from doing so by police , who had acted quickly to prevent a pitch invasion when Byrne headed Sunderland into a 35th-minute lead . |