Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says she 's called on you already and she 's helping you with your enquiries . |
| 2 | ‘ From what you 've said , she 's hooked on you , so milk the relationship . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ She 's bent on going . |
| 4 | And when she 's curled on my honoured knee , |
| 5 | And Miss Rene 's retort was very sharp as she said , ‘ I 'll do that after she 's tried on the brown leghorn or the mink-coloured felt . |
| 6 | Other children will also fight back , unless she 's picked on a particularly timid child . |
| 7 | Dhia , lassie , it 's the hard finger she 's put on you there ! |
| 8 | ‘ She 's sleepin' well an' she 's put on two pounds . ’ |
| 9 | Nibbling at her lunchtime sandwiches , she is perched on the edge of a chair by a window overlooking Williamson Square , high in the Playhouse heavens . |
| 10 | But everything I 've said to you is based on the Registry files . ’ |
| 11 | Tragically , her father 's suicide coincides with the shattering discovery that her cousin Charles ' interest in marrying her is based on greed — not love . |
| 12 | I pointed out , for instance , that a lot of the criticism of her is founded on jealousy . |
| 13 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 14 | It 's played on smaller courts using light plastic rackets and foam balls , so very young children can join in . |
| 15 | We 're putting in electronic fax , also image processing , and we 've built a system of information accessing called ‘ folders ’ that will let us get any type of document from anywhere around the world , whether it 's stored on an ordinary disk , optical storage device or whatever . ’ |
| 16 | It reads the Touch key when it 's placed on the sensor and uses it as an encryption key to decode data as it 's read and to encode it as it 's written . |
| 17 | But the way it 's moved on has been quite good . |
| 18 | Well , Matthew Fort , Esquire 's Food Editor , will be able to show you how it 's done on July 23 . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's done on the barrel , ’ said the chairman who much more happily confided that at 59 of course he will be batting and bowling again this summer , ‘ and that 's what it worked out a pint . |
| 20 | threatens to ruin the day , that it 's squandered on this . |
| 21 | You do n't lose the use of your PC 's printer port because it 's duplicated on the back of the tape unit , though obviously you ca n't use both printer and tape at the same time . |
| 22 | Look how it 's repeated on the hangings . ’ |
| 23 | It 's balanced on a knife edge . |
| 24 | NT will not be fractured into a bunch of different versions simply because it 's run on different microprocessors . |
| 25 | It 's run on NBC 's cable channel and should air on the Public Broadcasting System at some ungodly hour in the morning . |
| 26 | NT will not be fractured into a bunch of different versions simply because it 's run on different MPUs . |
| 27 | If the wind had been stronger or the tide just a touch faster it 's broken on it we 'd be this minute ! |
| 28 | It 's grown on huge farms called plantations , and it has to be planted , as the name suggests , cultivated and harvested , before it can be packed into great ships and sent to us . |
| 29 | ‘ It was already here when we moved in and to start with I thought it would make the room seem too gloomy , but it 's grown on me and I really like it now , ’ says Mary Jane , who works part-time as a physiotherapist . |
| 30 | ‘ As it 's featured on the château label , the legend could be used to attract visitors , and sell more wine . ’ |