Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 'm fighting my sister he kicks me on the wotsit . ’ |
| 2 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 3 | For example , the snake uses its forked tongue to gather scent particles from the air and tastes them on a special membrane , called Jacobson 's organ , at the back of its mouth . |
| 4 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 5 | Ali pats me on the hand . |
| 6 | TIM PEACOCK joins them on the road and discovers that they 're dab hands at snooker , Ian T Tilton gets them in the frame . |
| 7 | TIM PEACOCK joins them on the road and discovers that they 're dab hands at snooker , Ian T Tilton gets them in the frame . |
| 8 | She joins me on the carpet , and we all sit blowing on our coffees and warming our hands on the mugs . |
| 9 | First , cases of ‘ excessive defence ’ have a grounding in legal justification , in that the occasion was one which justified the use of some force , and this places them on a higher social plateau than killings with no element of justification at all . |
| 10 | In this connection McClellan has written that the librarian does not reject books , but places them on a ‘ scale of accessibility ’ . |
| 11 | So massive a change of emphasis must be of fundamental significance , not only to the anthropologist and the social historian , but to the child psychologists , psychiatrists and psychotherapists whose very existence as a group depends upon the climate of opinion which regards their professional skills as valuable and necessary , and which places them on an equal footing in social esteem with the more anciently respected callings of the paediatrician and the pedagogue . |
| 12 | ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’ |
| 13 | Maria ties up the contents in parcels , and ( I believe ) exposes them on the hillside like unwanted infants . |
| 14 | ( Hartman has shown that the average person has one or less nightmares a year ; and only one person in 500 has them on a weekly basis . ) |
| 15 | That 's what has them on the run although , in the end , they 'll be forced to give birth . |
| 16 | i , but it needs two of us , it needs somebody on the inside and somebody on the out just to stop them flying through it . |
| 17 | he holds himself on the sofa |
| 18 | With older children it could be that each child makes his/her own list on a piece of paper ; with younger children maybe we do it as a class , and the teacher writes everything on the blackboard ; or perhaps nothing is written down by individuals , with each giving what they will need to the teacher who 's a " quartermaster " . |
| 19 | Fishbane has something on a grander scale altogether . |
| 20 | Glenshee has four cannons and Aonach Mor now has one on a one-year trial basis . |
| 21 | Cos his dad has him on a mon on a morning from nine till twelve so |
| 22 | What is it about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that places him on an artistic par with Shakespeare or Rembrandt , a giant of his art ? |
| 23 | The rational consumer will choose point W on the budget line which places him on the highest attainable indifference curve , I 1 , . |
| 24 | The leader then calls for items , and the first person from one of the teams brings the article and places it on the chair . |
| 25 | The literary text may negotiate with its containment ( as Shakespeare 's do ) , but its contemporary subversive force has been compromised by the political dominance of state power which excludes it from the centre and places it on the margins of socially sanctioned institutions . |
| 26 | What about other people who has anyone on the basis of individuals that have come in here , do many individuals come in and actually have problems related to living in the flats ? |
| 27 | Hazel heard its beak hit a pebble in the grass with a sound like a snail-shell when a thrush beats it on a stone . |
| 28 | ( He gets up and ‘ accidently ’ scratches the record — which knocks it on the head for Vixen — and me , since we are reviewing the singles on the editor 's stereo . ) |
| 29 | Often the wonderful natural natural story-teller in Walker breaks through the marshmallow and has us on the edge of the chair , but finally and lamentably this is a failure . |
| 30 | Stewart joins us on the line now good morning Mr . |