Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 2 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |
| 3 | Now I know it was a great honour but I could see no way of accepting , so I put it on the mantelpiece and more or less prepared to forget all about it . |
| 4 | ‘ So you told me on the phone . ’ |
| 5 | Right and he says the wider gap , so you write it on the order form , right , it 's part of the order form close |
| 6 | I would say in employment yes , or people that want to get employment example would be yeah at M D secretary suddenly shot into the job of producing the company newspaper now I mean somebody like very quickly has to get to grips with this obviously can not give up six months to go and do it so you do it on a half day release basis . |
| 7 | ‘ We did not want the burden of administration falling on the taxpayer so we put it on the prime beneficiary , which is the farmer himself . ’ |
| 8 | His bulk , thin but long , was hard for them to get up their spiral stairs , so they left him on the sofa below , on the floor that lay over an ironmonger 's shop . |
| 9 | There was this girl in a bath of asses milk , yuk ! and it had all turned to cheese , so they put her on the table with a dish of figs for afters . |
| 10 | She had thoughtful parents , though , who thought the Grand Canyon was for real and so they put her on the waiting list . |
| 11 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 12 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |
| 13 | ‘ So he gets everything on a plate and you get nothing but insults and disturbance , and upset because you ca n't help thinking about him for weeks afterwards . |
| 14 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 15 | His room key and tag feel bulky in his pocket so he leaves them on the table with his newspaper before visiting the well assorted buffet table . |
| 16 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 17 | If I take them on the table they wo n't make so much noise then |
| 18 | If I had it on a solid floor , but it 's got ta go , do n't forget it 's on a a wooden floor . |
| 19 | If I kicked him on the shin I bet he 'd limp away and not even glance to see who 'd done it . |
| 20 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 21 | No but I 'll , if I say it on every tape she might get the hint . |
| 22 | If I see anything on the subject it goes into the file , and eventually I have enough material for a book or an article . ’ |
| 23 | if I see anything on the table I 'll just pop it in a freezer bag |
| 24 | I think these 'd probably be better if I did them on the one you suggested for |
| 25 | If I call you on the phone I 'll ring twice , put down the receiver , do the same thing again . |
| 26 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
| 27 | No you ca n't throw it you have to like jump on it like that and you go weee and it , and if , and if someone gets you on the hips you have to throw it to everybody . |
| 28 | I did n't realise how clear her speech was until I heard it on the tape . |
| 29 | If somebody bonks you on the |
| 30 | erm There 's a kind of assumption that if something , if somebody does something on a Sunday afternoon , for lack of better , something better to do or because it 's raining and golf is therefore , therefore off , that he therefore does it in a truer , sincerer way than a man who might be doing it as his career , for his income , to keep his family alive and so on . |