Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , yeah , and you picked them up and looked at dates and chucked them on cart . |
| 2 | → If you took a dozen sheets of clear cellophane , drew around a dozen different guitar designs , including Strat , PRS , Ibanez , Jackson and various others , then laid them on top of one another , you 'd be surprised at how little difference there actually is between them . |
| 3 | I tipped about half of the cash into the box and then took a couple of shirts from the second bag and laid them on top of the remaining cash . |
| 4 | On every anniversary of the crash she has picked small branches from the same tree and laid them on Day 's grave . |
| 5 | Champagne , fruit , cake , plates and knife — laid them on table . |
| 6 | Against the advice of Brooke , Major met them on May 15 in an attempt to break the deadlock , after which Paisley said that the talks would " definitely " continue . |
| 7 | ‘ This other team we 've got to beat — we met them on Saturday . |
| 8 | We met them on Friday and we did not get the assurances , ’ the spokesman added . |
| 9 | With sudden inspiration and at the last moment , I stripped the big bed of its blanket and pillows and stuffed them on top of the suitcases . |
| 10 | Mind , when I read their story on erm I read them on Thursday afternoon and I said , right we better practise for nursery |
| 11 | You got them on trough , then they 're saying alright we 'll do it somewhere else . |
| 12 | he drew me in ink and he etched me on zinc |
| 13 | The agreement included a feature whereby all French banks agreed among themselves to bill their French trader customers affiliated to the payment system of Eurocheque a commission equivalent to that which they charged them on payment effected by holders of their credit or debit cards . |
| 14 | and erm and then they tried me on painting . |
| 15 | Well they tried them on motorbikes did n't they ? |
| 16 | Surely Ruth would not hurt the cat , for she stroked them on walls . |
| 17 | Now who trained me on Host ? |
| 18 | She moved back against the pillow and drew me on top of her . |
| 19 | Wallace found them on Lombok , the island on the Australian side of his dividing line . |
| 20 | The physical aspect of my journey had collapsed : a heel injury became aggravated , with a cut almost in as far as the bone , and the rest of the tour found me on wheels or afloat more than on foot . |
| 21 | Erm and er I phoned them on Thursday before our last meeting and to be told Oh it 's in the post , we 're contacting you . |
| 22 | And you can guarantee , he was on t' phone on Saturday , he phoned me up on Monday , he phoned me on Tuesday and said , now I remember what I wanted . |
| 23 | Duncan phoned me on Friday about something else and said oh have we had this tape , so I said yes , and he said have you seen it and I said no not yet , and he said , erm but he thought it was quite good erm |
| 24 | Plans for British police forces to test the batons were cancelled by the Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , after American police used them on Rodney King during the videotaped attack which sparked the Los Angeles riots . |
| 25 | When we grouped the sectors approximately into local government districts and then ranked them on density of oil workers , this ranking coincided with that based on data for offshore workers in the 1981 census , suggesting that our data was not affected by geographic bias . |
| 26 | The two younger brothers , Charles and John , had no such luck , and were forced to look for accommodation of their own ; Charles found his on Pig Street — appropriately named , in view of his activity as a pig butcher — just north of Frome town bridge . |
| 27 | Crowley 's wife divorced him on grounds of admitted adultery in 1910 . |
| 28 | I invited her on holiday , ’ as she was led away . |
| 29 | I invited her on holiday , ’ as she was led away . |
| 30 | Grand Duke Vladimir Romanov , the head of the exiled Russian royal family , and " heir to the Russian throne " as Izvestiya described him on April 22 , died in the USA on April 21 . |