Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got my schooling on the hoof . ’ |
| 2 | I got my hand on his jaw and forced it open . |
| 3 | You got my note on |
| 4 | So I bought indoor-plants and was given indoor plants , and one of the indoor plants I expended my energy on was the fern with the bright , shiny leaves and the indestructible appearance bought that day when I had suffered the apocalypse . |
| 5 | I was bought a large trunk and Uncle Charlie came round one Saturday morning and sign-wrote my name on both ends , with my house number . |
| 6 | You say you met my daughter on the train to Boston , that she was running away from home , that she ended up on your doorstep when her brother refused to house her ? ’ |
| 7 | That morning I met my father on the middle landing of the stairs , and we were alone together for the first time in the holidays . |
| 8 | She once asked my advice on a birthday gift , so I suggested a book . |
| 9 | And then I asked my father on Tuesday to remind him and he said , he 'd already said he 'd fetch them in on Tuesday . |
| 10 | He went up and clapped my master on the shoulder . |
| 11 | I made my displeasure on that score quite clear to the ecclesiarch 's agent . |
| 12 | I wiped my hand on his trousers . |
| 13 | During 1965–1968 , I rethought and redeveloped my work on semantics until it was accepted for a Ph.D . |
| 14 | Having doubts about this picture 's authenticity and surmising that it might be the same picture he had seen several years before , he again sought my opinion on the basis of a good photograph . |
| 15 | He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters . |
| 16 | The Boyfriends haunted my stay on the North Shore . |
| 17 | The wind was strong and bitterly cold as we prepared ourselves and I tried in vain to put my boots on without leaving the car , until I cracked my forehead on someone 's ice-axe in the back seat . |
| 18 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , leaping from my seat in the dugout , I cracked my skull on its roof and the world turned black . |
| 20 | I built my life on a lie . |
| 21 | We have had the house painted , and I caught my dress on a door . |
| 22 | Other stands that caught my eye on my tour were Johnny van Haeften 's very fine paintings , Wartski 's exquisite objets d'arts , David Messum 's fine painting , Bernheimer Fine Arts , and Garrard the Crown Jewellers ' silver . |
| 23 | I fixed my attention on the tower of the library which the priest , Sauniere , had built on the edge of a precipice overlooking the distant village of Esperaza . |
| 24 | That was the last , as I thought , of my Criterion obituary ; but because of some slightly disparaging remarks I made in it of Montgomery Belgion , a Criterion contributor , I incurred the bitter enmity of that enigmatic figure , which exploded years later when he reviewed my book on Simone Weil . |
| 25 | Aline 's insight underlined my conviction on holiday that this was one tale not for retelling . |
| 26 | I practiced my trade , I simplified my life , I was on my way to becoming the " Compleat Airman " , I also felt that I should get an overseas tour out of the way , and was quite pleased when I found my name on the PWR+ ; I then awaited eagerly to learn where . |
| 27 | I found my hand on its sleeve , drew it back . |
| 28 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover knows , I changed my position on Europe . |
| 29 | I bumped my head on the door moving your mattress through the laundry , ’ said Tom . |
| 30 | Oh that must have been when I smacked my nose on my Walkman . |