Example sentences of "she [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newman had kept the conversation general , fending Evelyn off when she tried to bring it on a more personal basis . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 3 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 4 | She looked the same as usual ; untidy , a hole in her coat where she 'd caught it on a hook in the yard . |
| 5 | It sounded as though she 'd left it on a bus or something . |
| 6 | See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’ |
| 7 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 8 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 9 | She had seen it on the table on her Wednesday visit and had said : |
| 10 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 11 | But she had met him on the towpath the next week and the one following . |
| 12 | She had sent him on the way to solving the mystery of her husband 's murder . |
| 13 | So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town . |
| 14 | By a stroke of luck , she had spotted it on a colleague 's bookshelf before lunch . |
| 15 | She got me she had to kiss me on the arse she fucking she had to be there thirty seconds to get the points and I farted at about ten seconds |
| 16 | ‘ One must n't take too much of a good thing , for money is easily spent ’ , said one of Beatrice Potter 's hosts , putting the cigarette she had offered him on the mantelpiece after one or two puffs , for the next night . |
| 17 | Hosanna started to smell the debris where she had put it on the marble top of the kitchen dresser and she shouted at him so that he darted out into the yard . |
| 18 | When the envelope had arrived she had put it on the mantelpiece in the small sitting-room , but almost at once she had decided to take it more closely into her possession . |
| 19 | She had bought it on a trip to Munich with the League of European Women . |
| 20 | ‘ Sandwich , ’ she said putting it on a plate bearing the legend LNER . |