Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adj] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other day , a survey showed that more than half the adults in the country felt that they would n't be content to live with a terminal illness which made them dependent on others . |
| 2 | If the olives have been stored in brine , rinse them well in running water , then pat them dry on kitchen paper . |
| 3 | Drain the prawns thoroughly and pat them dry on kitchen paper . |
| 4 | Afterwards he washed the tin out in the stream , splashed water over his face and hands and wiped them dry on a handkerchief . |
| 5 | He has placed them both on the sofa under the magnificent painting of a Ramayana demon by his Thai protegé , not facing one another across his huge desk , to indicate that this is an intimate and informal interview , not to be taken too seriously whatever she says . |
| 6 | But if neither confesses , all the DA can do is nail them both on a lesser offence , for which the maximum sentence is one year . |
| 7 | However , the most notable feature of these accounts is not so much their dating , as the apparent belief in St Augustine 's , where Goscelin spent the last years of his life , that Cnut visited them both on the way to and from Rome . |
| 8 | What I hope ( and would like to think ) is happening is that the children are aware of the onlookers , but that they 're making a choice to stay in role ; that their engagement with the issues and the problems of the drama is what is keeping them intent on their work . |
| 9 | But magistrates found them guilty on a lesser charge of causing the animal to be terrified . |
| 10 | They had an hour to get back to the rendezvous with their submarine when the storm strengthened , tossing them high on one wave before they slithered off its back to meet the next great sea , all the time in danger of broaching-to across the waves that could then roll them over . |
| 11 | I will be keeping you up-to-date on Singer events and also ‘ manning ’ an information desk at all the main knitting exhibitions , where I will be able to help and advise you . |
| 12 | There 's nothing quite like sexy lingerie to put you in the mood so knock him dead on Valentine 's Day with some of this sizzling underwear from the latest Freemans Spring/Summer collection . |
| 13 | The jury found him guilty on 23 charges in a 38-count indictment . |
| 14 | The jury found him guilty on a reduced charge of assaulting the youth by knocking him to the ground . |
| 15 | Tony caught it all on film . |
| 16 | I 'm basing it all on past experience . |
| 17 | He used it all on the pond , I reckon . |
| 18 | ‘ You ca n't expect to know it all on your first day . |
| 19 | Now , Benjamin 's uncle , the great Wolsey , and his black familiar , the enigmatic Doctor Agrippa , used us both on countless errands in the sinister twilight world of treason , murder and lechery of the courts of Europe . |
| 20 | Waddle may give them this on the left , but it would surely have done no harm to start the match with Dorigo 's dash instead of the perennial , peripheral Pearce . |
| 21 | I think he 's passing them both on the same time . |
| 22 | Living with somebody depressive has made me depressed on frequent occasions and th th the feelings of helplessness that you have in dealing with the person 's depression . |
| 23 | That 's nothing more than circumstantial evidence — even you ca n't brand me guilty on that ! ’ |
| 24 | They 're gon na give me fifteen on Thursday . |
| 25 | America 's Irish lobby has campaigned hard for the MacBride principles , and several states have made them mandatory on local companies . |
| 26 | So I 'll give you some on erm on graphs . |
| 27 | I 'll just give you some on those . |
| 28 | The thing is we did it right , we did it in the nappy , then we fucking put him spread-eagled on a bench and me mate ran off to get the shaving kit stuff and this fucking this people who 's erm , looking wom , girls in there and everything , real fucking pissed up |
| 29 | Angrily she tore her hand away from Rune 's clasp and slammed it palm-down on the table . |
| 30 | Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and spread it level on top using a flat-bladed knife . |