Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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1 | That was a nice picture — Marie liked it I think , cos she did n't mind me sticking it on the wall . |
2 | No-one seeing her on the move , rushing headlong through drear fuming tunnels , would really note the missing arms and absent tail , the sealed face , the scarlet sash . |
3 | The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss . |
4 | Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum . |
5 | Everyone pats themselves on the back and goes home . ’ |
6 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
7 | I laid her on the conc you know , like the , the step out |
8 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
9 | Folding the poem , I laid it on the table . |
10 | I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back . |
11 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
12 | At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter . |
13 | I met her on a colectivo here in the capital , standing face to face in the rush-hour crowds . |
14 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
15 | He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago . |
16 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
17 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
18 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
19 | When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse ! |
20 | Although regretting the need for such prosecutions , may I congratulate him on the vigour with which he prosecutes those who peddle such odious doctrines ? |
21 | Might I congratulate you on the birth of Henry , or Harry as I notice he is to be called from the announcement in the papers . |
22 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
23 | ‘ I passed it on the way here from Bordeaux . |
24 | yeah , so anyway erm , he bought the car in to tell me that , garage down here , five hundred and forty eight pound labour right and that was put on another wing , save repairing the wing , put a new on , so what I did with mine is , I put on a new wing , right , and reduced the labour by sixty five quid to four hundred and five , I make plenty on the parts |
25 | I clapped him on the back . |
26 | I got one on the sh on the telephone |
27 | and I got one on the C's . |
28 | ‘ I got you on the bed and just lost my head completely . |
29 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
30 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |