Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ So you told me on the phone . ’ |
| 4 | Right and he says the wider gap , so you write it on the order form , right , it 's part of the order form close |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had thoughtful parents , though , who thought the Grand Canyon was for real and so they put her on the waiting list . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 14 | If I take them on the table they wo n't make so much noise then |
| 15 | If I kicked him on the shin I bet he 'd limp away and not even glance to see who 'd done it . |
| 16 | I think these 'd probably be better if I did them on the one you suggested for |
| 17 | If I call you on the phone I 'll ring twice , put down the receiver , do the same thing again . |
| 18 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I did n't realise how clear her speech was until I heard it on the tape . |
| 21 | If somebody bonks you on the |
| 22 | Er , I sorry , , just clearing my throat , er , I did , I did delegate if somebody put it on the end of somebody 's assignment , then I to it , but I tend to find I underestimate what people can do for me all the time , and do n't identify just how much those people can give me back , and I did , or I do have a tendency at times to give people like before , to hold on too much , try and do too much myself , and er , you ca n't do it that way in case . |
| 23 | Rune filled her glass , watching her as she half emptied it in one long swallow , waiting until she replaced it on the table before enquiring mildly , ‘ Then what happened ? ’ |
| 24 | I suppose she meant if she put me on the Pill she was letting me sleep around . |
| 25 | Billy would n't notice if she put it on the back seat . |
| 26 | But if you had me on the table or on the trolley in intensive care — the submarine blip of the oscilloscope ( like a lost code ) , the richly sighing respirator-then I 'd be going , going , tumbling end over end . |
| 27 | First , if you spin it on the table , ‘ stalk ’ upward , it almost immediately flips itself over to spin upside-down , balancing on the stalk' . |
| 28 | Your dustbin will be returned near to where you left it , or if possible to a convenient point just inside your gate if you left it on the pavement . |
| 29 | If you put it on the right feet it 's clearly one of the best available . |
| 30 | It 'd walk away by itself if you put it on the floor . ’ |