Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suspended for a week by the club , fined £2,000 and dropped following misbehaviour at a supporters ' dinner , Merson spoke of the 89th-minute winner that restored Arsenal to the top as a personal thankyou to Arsenal 's players and staff for assisting him on the road to recovery . |
| 2 | We were wined and dined at great expense and the next time I met Tommy he thanked me profusely for assisting him on that evening . |
| 3 | he should be thanked for organizing it on behalf of the Council . |
| 4 | He describes the tour of Wales as ‘ a joke ’ , not meant as a jibe at the opposition but at Australian officials for keeping them on a whistle stop that would daunt American tourists . |
| 5 | We would like to thank our colleagues , Peter Brown , Dick Jones , and Eve Wilson ( who also teach on our undergraduate electronic publishing courses ) for their help and ideas , and our students for keeping us on our toes . |
| 6 | She might fight him , resent him , even hate him for condemning her on Matilda 's word alone , but she could n't deny his need or her longing to satisfy it . |
| 7 | A particularly interesting feature of the trestle piers was the method used for founding them on irregular river beds . |
| 8 | In particular Jan had been impressed with Kylie after seeing her on The Zoo Family . |
| 9 | A million people think the University has an attractive campus after seeing it on BBC TV 's Nice Work drama serial in October . |
| 10 | I am very grateful and so was Paul because after seeing you on Tuesday night after you had left I noticed the vast improvement in Paul which was all down to your visit . |
| 11 | Then , after using it on video , any intensive listening tasks could be carried out on audio . |
| 12 | After approaching him on the street and ushering him into the house he told the boy ; ’ Welcome to the Devil 's Kingdom ’ and threatened to kill him if he did nt co-operate . |
| 13 | After putting them on the rail the sellers sent the buyers an invoice stating ‘ At sole risk of purchaser after putting fish on rail here . ’ |
| 14 | Earlier , driver Geoffrey Wellens had stopped to ask Mr Thompson if he was alright after spotting him on the road . |
| 15 | Most will have started yoga after watching it on television or because a friend invited them to join a local group . |
| 16 | However , after watching it on stage , it was obvious from her facial expression that she knew of Bassanio and was very fond of him . |
| 17 | After leaving him on the bedroom floor , he returned to throw a jug of water in his father 's face . |
| 18 | He cried for put him on the bed , could n't do no college work so I just went to bed and left him . |
| 19 | ‘ They must have a hell of a reason for wanting us on that boat . ’ |
| 20 | He wants to talk about The Miser , so you persist with that line of questioning in the hope of drawing him on other aspects of his career . |
| 21 | ‘ Listen , Dan , Kate 's sick of seeing you on that settee . |
| 22 | This , presumably , is because they make the journey at very great depths , far below the reach of drift nets or trawls and since they are no longer feeding there is little chance of catching them on baited hooks or in traps . |
| 23 | Allowance of the defence of truth , with the burden of proving it on the defendant , does not mean that only false speech will be deterred . |
| 24 | Have you ever thought of knitting them on a larger scale ? |
| 25 | The rationale here is colourfully illustrated by Lord Ellenborough 's dictum in Gardiner v Gray ( 1815 ) 4 Camp 144 to the effect that a person does not buy goods simply for the pleasure of depositing them on a dunghill . |
| 26 | I see now that it was just his way of keeping me on my mettle and making sure I did n't get big-headed . |
| 27 | Erm , yeah Mrs she sort of has the power over level erm if she she sort of , it 's like she 's sort of keeping her on this level in the same household as her |
| 28 | Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made . |
| 29 | ‘ But actually , being in that situation really helped to develop my ear , because a guy would come for a lesson and ask me to show him a lick from some song or other , which kind of put me on the spot ! |
| 30 | So they just sort of put it on the market to see if it would sell ? |