Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mme Pettifer , my man Georges , I think , has consulted with you on the subject of the wines . |
| 2 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 3 | Mr Woods ' teenage daughter Michelle , who 'd gone with him on the trip , witnessed the accident . |
| 4 | I wondered if her presence was an invitation ; I felt that if I stretched out my hand to grasp hers she would have sat by me on the bed . |
| 5 | Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back . |
| 6 | I would have said to you on the phone we do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 7 | I will probably have spoken to you on the ‘ phone before you get this note , but just in case not I thought I would let you know how things are going . |
| 8 | ‘ We could have signed to they on the type of deal that would have worked against their own long-term interest in relation to creative control . |
| 9 | Could something have happened to her on the way home last night ? |
| 10 | If he 'd done something to or around the horses , I thought , then he had to have travelled with us on the train . |
| 11 | Unfair , maybe , but a horribly damaging allegation to have made about you on the eve of the Lions ' selection . |
| 12 | A good woman , someone had explained to him on the road from Brighouse , the widow of Radical Jack Thackray , something of a local hero , who had been cut down by a sabre at St Peter 's Fields in Manchester , asking for rather less in the way of electoral reform than Daniel himself was demanding now . |
| 13 | She thought of the times she had put her hand into Nick 's , how she had sat beside him on the grass only half an hour ago . |
| 14 | The idea of starting an airline had come to him on the demise of Laker Airways in February 1982 . |
| 15 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 16 | I had an Abaya ( the long black gown ) which I had carried with me on the plane and a scarf to cover my hair , so I was able to enter the Ministry of Health without shocking the men too much . |
| 17 | Coy then took the DDI through the report Adam had made to him on the phone . |
| 18 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 19 | Or maybe Veronica had got to him on the subject . |
| 20 | He no longer maintained the stance he had advanced to me on the telephone . |
| 21 | I 've talked with him on the telephone and with any luck he should be over here on Monday . |
| 22 | He 's so bloated and , I mean I have n't seen him , I said I 've , I 've talked to him on the phone . |
| 23 | He had just been booted out of his digs , for the nth time , because the landlady had complained about the noise of a child who had stayed with him on the way home for half-term . |
| 24 | I 've spoken to you on the phone . |
| 25 | He makes me laugh cos he often says some , when I , it 's when I 've spoken to you on the phone |
| 26 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 27 | The last words he had spoken to me on the subject of kitchen units had been really quite abusive . |
| 28 | A few days later an Englishman had spoken to him on the phone , saying an envelope of pictures Manningham might find interesting were on the way by express registered post . |
| 29 | I realized with a start that the beautiful young woman who had spoken to us on the bank was his wife . |
| 30 | It was the same question he had asked of her on the Ridgery , a question that put the burden of leadership on her . |