Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Curiously , the attitude to fish of those who either lovingly hand-feed them pellets or seek to put them on the bank is equally caring . |
| 2 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
| 3 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 4 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 5 | When we denounce the anti-Semitism and let the Fascism take care of itself , we are fastening on what is prepolitical or sub-political , and refusing to engage ourselves on the plane of politics where , as Olson insists , we 're required to vindicate our own sorts of polity against the Fascist sorts . |
| 6 | It 's no good looking at the cigars available and attempting to choose one on the basis of certain criteria . |
| 7 | First of all , medieval armies were sometimes not dependent on lines of communication : they did not , often could not , live on their own supplies , and reckoned to feed themselves on the land they passed through . |
| 8 | Sister Cooney picked up a pile of books and began to replace them on the shelves . |
| 9 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 10 | You could n't just walk into it casually , as he had done , drop home from the office and decide to eradicate her on the spur of the moment . |
| 11 | Suddenly he 'd arch his back like a twig in a furnace , scraping his stockinged feet for purchase , then take his head in both hands and try to smash it on the floor , only prevented by the cushions . |
| 12 | General practitioners are in a position to plan because they have survived many changes , and to fail to reappoint them on the basis of a local health policy ‘ whim ’ conflicts with individual patients ' rights in choosing their own general practitioner . |