Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 If they thought it was that bad they would of picked it up on the M O T would n't they ?
3 And Jim , when he comes in , they 're both , they 're both all , I 've pr priced them up on the top and er
4 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 ) .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 After the third ‘ Carry On ’ , the cast had been offered a profit-sharing scheme — and had all turned it down on the advice of their agents , who thought they would be better off getting increased salaries .
8 That she had n't heard of the plan was scarcely surprising , since Belinda had made it up on the spur of the moment .
9 ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’
10 ‘ I 'm going to the bathroom , ’ said Philip , putting the stupid lamp that his Mum had bought him back on the window-sill .
11 so , anyway , I just , we 've got it down on the floor and I says if we had a brown suite
12 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 .
13 When I had stretched him out on the floor , I stood over him .
14 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 .
15 I thought that was fair enough , so here we see Andy , Phil , Henri , Mike and Paul who have battled it out on the skirmish field and are ready for action in the sales field .
16 The grocer , a hard-faced ex-soldier whose right hand lacked a thumb ( Melanie wondered , had he lopped it off on the bacon-slicer ?
17 Lee took Philippa 's hand from her face and held it to her mouth , then placed it down on the bedcover .
18 Oh did leave them in there perhaps I 've put them up on the shelf .
19 No I 've not long put them out on the line .
20 ‘ They 've put me back on the Zikr case . ’
21 ‘ It has put me back on the golf course , ’ he said .
22 If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago .
23 I think what radical feminism has done is popularised that and taken it out on the streets and provided a core of anger and rage and has mobilized women .
24 And then , only then , when you 've stood him up on the kitchen table , and he 's all bejewelled and perfect , a knight crusader just like you 've dreamed , do you mutter the magic words .
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