Example sentences of "we [vb past] [pers pn] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we passed them on the road we glimpsed great crowds of people in the wide back seats , a jumble of merry faces at the windows . |
| 2 | He said nothing as we climbed the stairs , but he did n't switch the lights on as we passed them on the landing . |
| 3 | I realize now that I should have fired him right then but I thought at the time that when we got him on the set he would be OK . |
| 4 | we laid her on the step and I said to Elizabeth she 's stopped breathing ! |
| 5 | We used it on the ship , to keep the chickens ' food in . |
| 6 | Fuck Jean remember the day we found her on the floor ? |
| 7 | We found him on the floor getting cold and with none of the other monkeys taking much notice . |
| 8 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 9 | We found it on the ice outside the North Bastion tower , yet you said you were in the city all night . ’ |
| 10 | We found it on the back . |
| 11 | We approached it on the basis of er , collecting information on the Children in Need definition which a , er , a paper came before you when the Children 's Act was implemented , and that gives local discretion to authorities to , to define Children in need . |
| 12 | The story has n't changed since we heard it on the radio . |
| 13 | And erm we collected a whole lot of colour glass and we stuck it on the window and it 's a stain glass window y know ? |
| 14 | We rolled her on the side |
| 15 | We all buy goods on impulse sometimes — simply because we saw them on the shelf of the shop . |
| 16 | We saw it on the night Sabine … ’ |
| 17 | We offered them on the basis of them creating a mass membership party . |
| 18 | That 's why we won it on the line . ’ |
| 19 | There was no bed and we did it on the floor , which I found excruciatingly uncomfortable . |
| 20 | Marie 's parents had strong religious views that made her feel very guilty about having sex in their home when she and her husband had to live there for a while : " We did it on the bedroom floor on the wedding night because I would n't use the bed , in case it made a noise . |
| 21 | We left them on the boat while we wandered into the town to discuss with Sunsail a fuel tank that a previous charterer had filled with water instead of diesel . |
| 22 | But , and then he , he 's like , we left him on the sofa and said oh Mark we 'll be back in a minute , like , turned all the lights off hoping he 'll like pass out you could just hear him like laughing to himself for another like twenty minutes and we 're |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ We had them on the run by then . |