Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Greeks were fond of using them for mounting on earrings , but it was the Romans who developed a passionate interest in pearls . |
| 2 | Yeah , cos I told that was one , I said that 's , that 's the one I , I over slowed on my test . |
| 3 | This afternoon you started out apologising for spying on me , and ended up accusing me of spying on you . ’ |
| 4 | The journey with him had been tense , the atmosphere between them like standing on the edge of a volcano , waiting to be flung into the fire when it exploded . |
| 5 | Thank you for coming on the show today , Mr Calder . ’ |
| 6 | Not forgetting my personal favourite , a scathing attack on his Father-In-Law at his wedding ( Sample line : ‘ Thank you for putting on such a … clean cardigan ’ ) . |
| 7 | Carla , pass that bag for me please , , what did I tell you about jumping on that couch ? |
| 8 | The whole route was lined by men of the Cent-Gardes , whose immobility was such that according to one guest ‘ they might have been statues ’ , but she felt unable to study them in detail , so terrified was she of slipping on the highly polished parquet that her whole mind was fixed on arriving safely at the dining room . |
| 9 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |
| 10 | You know , trying stop you from walking on the |
| 11 | The factors which would influence you in deciding on the form of business include : |
| 12 | Competency you 're looking at your receptionist now , because you 've identified the key tasks you might say well what 's the standard on these things , how good is she at passing on messages etcetera ? |
| 13 | Rather than tensing up and pulling with all your arm strength , simply use your weight to do the work for you by leaning on your arms with a straight back . |
| 14 | Now I I 'm we 're not here to argue whether that 's a good thing or a bad thing , erm but nonetheless parents were , if you like , an attempt was being made to con them into voting on that particular issue under the guise of whether their children 's education would be better or worse , and I think many parents realized that . |
| 15 | Check that the fascia boards are worth repairing : if they have started to rot , you will have to replace them before starting on the guttering . |
| 16 | However , you will still need to get used to wearing them before embarking on a long trek . |
| 17 | Jamie shoved one hand down the back of my cords to keep me from falling on my face , and put the other hand on to my forehead , murmuring something . |
| 18 | Before the meeting , Mr Russell , one of the four executives , issued a writ against the other original shareholders , claiming an injunction to restrain them from voting on the resolution . |
| 19 | It may be that learners have internalized aspects of the system which for one reason or another they can not access on particular occasions , that circumstances of different kinds prevent them from acting on this knowledge . |
| 20 | Confident of winning the ball , Hove brought their full-back into the line , thereby giving them the overlap , but their rather mediocre handling and some excellent shadowing by Godwin prevented them from capitalising on this for much of the half . |
| 21 | I understand his point , but many women have written to me asking us specifically not to prevent them from working on Sundays . |
| 22 | Two of them were wearing navy-blue men 's overcoats that must have been the crew 's , holding the ends carefully to save them from trailing on the stairs . |
| 23 | She eventually found one who was also an art collector and paid him for operating on her with her own works of art , most of them created at the Fine Arts School of Dijon where she teaches . |
| 24 | The union acted wrongfully in dismissing him for insisting on his legal rights . |
| 25 | The emphasis of the New Testament is that Christ resisted the temptations thrown at him and it was this that qualified him for dying on the cross . |
| 26 | Judy was at the reception desk and Fran smiled at her before tapping on the door and entering the boardroom . |
| 27 | The 28-year-old woman was walking alone in the town 's Templehill area at around 12:30am when she was grabbed from behind outside a funeral parlour and indecently assaulted her before escaping on foot . |
| 28 | Ted made a loose grab at her before continuing on his way . |
| 29 | I realized that all I wanted was to stop him from writing on his own , and that this was possibly his own motive for working with me in Salamanca - to keep my true poetic self silent , subservient to his . |
| 30 | But like so many of his contemporaries , he had a selective vision of who " the people " were which did not prevent him from referring on occasion , like Burke , to the " swinish multitude " . |