Example sentences of "i [verb] [noun prp] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met Morag on the step . |
| 2 | Although I met Theresa on the way back from erm school and she said Alec was at the doctors cos not the way back from school , way back from the library . |
| 3 | As I met Charlotte on the path , |
| 4 | I passed Morpurgo on the way . |
| 5 | I clapped Jamie on the shoulder a couple of times and we made for the street . |
| 6 | So I phoned Derek on the car phone and erm he says oh we 'll get some taken elsewhere . |
| 7 | ‘ I told Wickham on the telephone , ’ he said . |
| 8 | I parked Armstrong on the road and walked down the short drive to the impressive Gothic porch around the front door . |
| 9 | It 's looking extremely wet of course , I heard Mike on the news say there 'll be some heavy bursts of rain , we 've just had one and er everybody coming into the ground is saturated . |
| 10 | I heard Silver on the phone last night and could n't quite belive my ears . |
| 11 | I rang Otto on the off-chance . |
| 12 | I almost dropped the flowers when I saw Lisabeth on the phone in the hallway as I kicked the door shut . |
| 13 | ‘ I saw Gabriel on the cover of a magazine , and David Mellor was on the cover of something else and I thought , who 's looking funkier ? |
| 14 | I tapped Martin on the shoulder and signalled a cut by drawing a finger across my throat . |
| 15 | I tapped Connors on the arm . |
| 16 | My right foot hovered over the accelerator pedal and I balanced Armstrong on the clutch . |
| 17 | The tide was certainly making now , and if I kept to midstream as near as I could judge it , I should be safe enough — if I put Joanna on the mud , the making tide would soon get her off . |
| 18 | Yeah I know , I had Maureen on the phone to me last week |
| 19 | ‘ I had Charles on the blower this morning . |
| 20 | That was why I shot Balbindor on the spot . |
| 21 | Two considerations , however , have persuaded me to leave Egypt on the periphery of my enquiry : ( 1 ) Egypt had interested the Greeks since Homer as a country difficult to approach and with puzzling customs . |