Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | point of order , the point that I made make it on this side is that we are not against the expenditure . |
| 2 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 3 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 4 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 5 | ‘ He tried to unload it on me , ’ said Gareth Holmroyd . |
| 6 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-30s , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 7 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-thirties , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 8 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 9 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 10 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 11 | She walked two paces backwards to the bed , only in her shirt , and tried to pull him on her as she fell . |
| 12 | After the series of treaties in 1854 – 58 which helped to launch her on a rapid and irreversible process of change it could even still be questioned whether full-scale diplomatic representation there was worth what it cost . |
| 13 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 14 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 15 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 16 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 17 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 18 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 19 | He gave me the most trouble by returning more potential Pathfinders than any other CO : hut not only — aircrew he walked about Gransden with a wad of railway warrants in his pocket , and anyone who offended got one on the spot . |
| 20 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 21 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 22 | The Copts will say we tried to put it on him and the Moslems will say we let him off . ’ |
| 23 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
| 24 | Apparently they tried to phone me on Friday afternoon but I was out swimming . |
| 25 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 26 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 27 | They , they stopped having them on the , the seafront anyway . |
| 28 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
| 29 | If you tried to pat her on the shoulder and say ‘ There , there , ’ anything might happen . |
| 30 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |