Example sentences of "[pron] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening to this I on the whole thought that in a real sense he never really quite answered them , on the other hand he made every single person look silly . |
| 2 | I on the door . |
| 3 | He said I on the back at least . |
| 4 | Erm we mentioned already today about A P A P I on the desktop called erm Open Client . |
| 5 | Got the headphones so market could n't I on the baby stall ? |
| 6 | As soon as we received the tree preservation order we rushed down to pi-n i-t on the tree . |
| 7 | The organizer taps someone on the head and that child has to tiptoe round the circle while ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ tries to point to the person . |
| 8 | At two , your child does n't realise that if she bangs someone on the head with a spade , it hurts . |
| 9 | I tell you what we 'll do , we 'll try to find someone on the way who knows the counter-spell and send him back to wake the Gnomes up . ’ |
| 10 | Then we 'll have to tip someone on the floor . |
| 11 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 12 | Once again it is up to the pilot to insist that this wing is held and not to accept someone on the upwind wing-tip . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a fifty-fifty chance of saving someone on the verge of death , ’ one source close to the surgeons said . |
| 14 | Yes , but this fellow you see , I said to him erm , you had a lot to do with that fellow , he 'd , he 'd been down to collect him from someone on the South Coast as well with a police of course , and I said what happened to the little girl ? he said oh she 's been in psychiatric care , care for four years |
| 15 | When you speak to someone on the telephone it is easier for you to represent your company or organization . |
| 16 | He was silent for a while and they could hear someone on the telephone in the main room . |
| 17 | After a time she heard him talking to someone on the telephone , but , when he did n't reappear immediately , gathered that he had no news for her . |
| 18 | It 's amazing how much we pick up just from listening to someone on the telephone , and of course when you ca n't see them , so you have n't got any visual clues as to what they might be like , what you hear becomes all important . |
| 19 | I got this real urge to speak to someone on the phone — I du n no who — just someone . |
| 20 | And now here was someone on the phone saying , Is Boy there ? |
| 21 | She could hear what sounded like Ace talking to someone on the phone as she picked up her coat and shrugged herself into it . |
| 22 | He was picking his teeth with a match while someone on the phone talked his ear off . |
| 23 | but it 's now erm , if the phone rings and he picks it up ah , er and he 's talking to someone on the phone someone else tries to ring |
| 24 | If you 're speaking to someone on the phone and you want to forward that phone call to somebody else ? |
| 25 | It was as if you were swimming out at sea with a piece of string tied round your middle attached to someone on the shore . |
| 26 | There is implied permission to tap someone on the shoulder to attract their attention . |
| 27 | The same dream — Eric walking through a throng and pausing , now and then , to touch someone on the shoulder . |
| 28 | Perhaps he would say it in some lonely place in the hills with someone on the lookout for the searching redcoats . |
| 29 | He thought it was easy for a newcomer to acquire school and institutional business because there was always someone on the lookout for improved service . |
| 30 | Such people were either doctors of high status who knew the individual personally , or someone on the selection panel with particular knowledge of or interest in disability ; for example , a person interviewing a blind candidate had had a visually impaired son . |