Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So you told me on the phone . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had thoughtful parents , though , who thought the Grand Canyon was for real and so they put her on the waiting list . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 9 | If I kicked him on the shin I bet he 'd limp away and not even glance to see who 'd done it . |
| 10 | 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 . ) |
| 11 | I think these 'd probably be better if I did them on the one you suggested for |
| 12 | The vermouth was dark red , and I wondered what my mother would do if I poured it on the mushroom-coloured carpet — very slowly . |
| 13 | I did n't realise how clear her speech was until I heard it on the tape . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | I asked Dang if she knew anything on the subject of knitting machines . |
| 17 | I suppose she meant if she put me on the Pill she was letting me sleep around . |
| 18 | Billy would n't notice if she put it on the back seat . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | That 's an interesting point that , any square root , any square root you always get two answers for square roots yeah , it 's always plus thing and minus thing , in complex numbers , when you get complex numbers there are always what we call complex conjugators , if you drew them on them , on them diagram , right , if you drew them on the diagram , what 'll you get , plus five minus three I , plus five , minus three I , and then and then we get minus five , plus three I , You get plus and minus there . |
| 22 | If you poured it on the table , it probably would n't even eat half-way through . |
| 23 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 24 | you 're absolutely spot on , cos you had them on the other one did n't you ? |
| 25 | But we were gon na do it erm , cos we got it on the Tamworth Heralds . |
| 26 | why consumers pay er in the European Community , it 's because we paying them two or three times more for our food than we would do if we purchased it on the world market erm . |
| 27 | If we missed anything on the beat , even sunken flags in the roadway — and we did n't report them , we 'd get a report back wanting to know why . |
| 28 | So , if anybody saw me on the morning after , either hobbling up or down the stairs in St Swithin 's or leaping up and down ( very slowly ) , with an ‘ ooh , ah ’ , accompanied by much frantic rubbing of calf muscles , you know why . |
| 29 | Erm , you see they were dyed on the wrong side you know they were of course it was easier to penetrate than it would be if they dyed them on the right side you see , it was technically i far far superior . |
| 30 | This was his perfect nightmare , to be facing scabby , pock-marked men like these , who had nothing to lose if they gutted him on the spot . |