Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |
| 2 | She was convinced something was moving about in there , though when she shone a light on it the little thing disappeared down the hole . |
| 3 | Yanto and his gang had started work on her the day before . |
| 4 | And that was the only time that I 've fired a rifle cos , well actually I went got , rose to a corporal I was a corporal when they finished and erm I was in er made cor lance corporal and then I was er with a heavy Vickers machine gun , that 's the one with the has water cooled casing on it the big heavy one you see , and I was with that , that team . |
| 5 | I kept my eye on him the whole time . ’ |
| 6 | And what this means is that from now on the cla lectures will trail the classes , which , which does n't matter and is actually quite er a good thing in the sense that what will happen from now on is that we 'll first do a topic in the class and then I will give the lecture on it the week after , or possibly even two weeks after , which is okay because it means that then in the lecture I can concentrate on filling in the gaps , straightening out the misunderstandings and generally adding to what we did in the class , rather than leading as it were as I have up until now . |
| 7 | ‘ You had a great head on you the way you thought the plan through from beginning to end . |
| 8 | I tried to get her to send me a memo with a pound sign on it the day after any night she had masturbated thinking about Lee , but she never did . |
| 9 | That is where I spilled vodka on it the day I wore it for the first time . ’ |
| 10 | watched a documentary on it the other night and he said even by kicking someone now , if you do n't have n't , is n't an accident it 's like kissing someone you |
| 11 | I noticed he had a slight limp ; I recalled the attack on me the previous day and the wounds I had unwittingly inflicted , but decided to keep the matter to myself . |
| 12 | So I will make a personal attack on you the day after to-morrow , when the House will be full , and I will tell you beforehand what I 'm going to say and what the right come-back is for you to score off me . |
| 13 | Anyway , there 's certainly no way I 'm going to start physio on him the way things are , or at least until you or Dr Grant have given him the OK . ’ |
| 14 | Debbie had called at the doctor on her the way back and the doctor had said I ca n't see anything wrong with your spine |
| 15 | ‘ I was so impressed I gave her a tape with a backing track on it the band had done , and asked her if she wanted to do some work on it . |
| 16 | I said do n't put so much onion on me the bloody things are repeating on me ! |