Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maria had left the identical cuttings anchored by a small china bowl on her coffee-table , but the bowl had been moved , so he must have examined them on arrival . |
| 2 | While they were entering their ‘ surplus ’ Hunter and Meteor at Billinghurst , they were taking delivery of Hawker P.1067 WB188 and Meteor IV ( Special ) EE549 from Cosford , having received them on loan from the RAF Museum . |
| 3 | The trains in India and in Morocco had impressed them on recital tours as some of the most distinctive they had ever seen . |
| 4 | And er I 've heard it mentioned about him on on on people who have interviewed him on television . |
| 5 | She would have no trouble in finding a tenant for the cottage ; already Simon Clifford , a neighbour , had approached her on behalf of an acquaintance of his who was looking for a place in the area . |
| 6 | You may have caught him on television in 1991 when he was the studio expert for the BBC 's coverage of the Scrabble World Championship , or more recently introducing a video on the game . |
| 7 | She had seen me on television and remembered the skinny little boy , Linford Christie , who had asked her all those questions on a flight from Kingston twenty-one years earlier . |
| 8 | A very nice letter it was too , but just one of many from people who had seen me on television . |
| 9 | You 've seen them on TV , on the pictures and even in Guitarist . ) |
| 10 | He had met them on business once , in Denmark , and found them quite congenial — save for the sea-obsession . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've seen you on deck with your husband and little boy , ’ she said . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've seen you on stage , vibrant , full of life , totally in command . |
| 13 | I have seen you on stage , pretending to sensuality , when in truth you are frigid as a winter storm . ’ |
| 14 | If he 'd strangled her on impulse it would have been there , and he could have slid her weighted body into the river , no one the wiser . ’ |
| 15 | I 've seen him on TV , I 've always liked him . |
| 16 | Tongue-in-cheek , the captain of tiny Tabard revealed : ‘ I 'm ready for Wayne — I 've seen him on television . |
| 17 | I 've seen him on television turning obvious singles into twos on huge grounds like Melbourne . |
| 18 | Jane had not visited her on impulse , nor yet as a premeditated plan . |
| 19 | The top trainers at home and abroad , Claire Hurst , the National and International Championships , I 've seen her on ice on the |
| 20 | He had seen her on television . |
| 21 | If you knew about show-jumping , you had heard of Nutty McTavish , even seen her on television in replay when there was a lull in the senior event and the commentator decided to fill in with earlier happenings . |
| 22 | Thus it bought the van from the trader and transferred it on hire purchase to the customer . |
| 23 | As I say , nowadays I get the information from you over the phone , and then when we 've got somebody who said Oh no , it 's only a small flat , I 've got this this and this and that 's the big pieces of furniture , er if it 's somebody that 's done it on spec I say Well look give me a ring back in an hour if er when you 've come off the phone you er there 's something you 've forgotten . |
| 24 | ‘ Could someone have done it on purpose ? ’ he asked . |
| 25 | Even in the shop , Melanie could hear Uncle Philip shouting : ‘ You done it on purpose , you Irish bastard I ’ and the dull thud of blows . |
| 26 | Of course at that time we did n't realise she 'd done it on purpose . |
| 27 | No , well , I should n't think so , but , but I should think they 've done it on purpose , they 've actually gone and done it . |
| 28 | What 's more they 've built it on ground with the intention of adding another 8ft wide section to pump the width up . |
| 29 | There , I 've said it on record and without recourse to a single one-liner . |
| 30 | Oh , it was terrible , I 'd seen it on video , it 's really sad . |