Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince patted him on the back . |
| 2 | The blow caught her on the cheek and she fell against Gilbert . |
| 3 | The blow caught her on the right side of her face , high on the cheek bone , beneath the eye . |
| 4 | Again , Brian Harley hit a less-than-perfect drive , but his two-iron across the angle of the dogleg put him on the front edge of the green . |
| 5 | I could n't get it out of them who had paid for her , but old Alex the cleaner told me on the side : Boswell , Slim Boswell . ’ |
| 6 | The main street of the village faced them on the other side of the Westport road . |
| 7 | And the next day — well nearly — the Service put me on the list as an Administration Trainee . |
| 8 | ‘ I shut my eyes , the ball hit me on the nose , and when I opened them it was in the back of the net ’ . |
| 9 | Bowers said : ‘ The ball hit me on the head — I did n't handle it . |
| 10 | Everyone laughed , and the captain clapped me on the back and called me a good fellow . |
| 11 | As Nancy slid the first tape into her video machine I settled down to watch her at work , but , throughout , the advice offered me on the screen was interspersed with more from the sofa next to me , where she sat eagerly adding a tumult of tips to those already being relayed . |
| 12 | Ira Sanchez offered a bet and the bookie took it on the nod . |
| 13 | The rebels blamed the massacre on the government troops and the government blamed it on the rebels . |
| 14 | The farmer put me on the table , with some small pieces of bread and meat in front of me . |
| 15 | The beadle hit him on the back , and so naturally Oliver cried even more . |
| 16 | The man told me on the telly that is the best so |
| 17 | The doctor patted him on the head . |
| 18 | Rose gave a yelp of rage , her arm shot out and Evelyn gave an involuntary cry as the stone caught her on the left shoulder . |
| 19 | Groups on the left opposed it on the grounds that IMF policies had damaged developing countries , and on the right it was opposed on the grounds of cost . |