Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] on the " 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 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 5 | I laid her on the conc you know , like the , the step out |
| 6 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
| 7 | Folding the poem , I laid it on the table . |
| 8 | I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back . |
| 9 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
| 12 | He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse ! |
| 17 | Although regretting the need for such prosecutions , may I congratulate him on the vigour with which he prosecutes those who peddle such odious doctrines ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
| 20 | ‘ I passed it on the way here from Bordeaux . |
| 21 | I clapped him on the back . |
| 22 | ‘ I got you on the bed and just lost my head completely . |
| 23 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
| 24 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 25 | That was , I got it on the coach quite a nice thing |
| 26 | ‘ I posed her on the sofa . |
| 27 | Then I tried it on the pasture , but that was a bit rough , so I thought I would ride it down the new road through the iron gate leading out of my land . |
| 28 | In Hamburg and elsewhere I talked to several former U-boat captains and instead of the brash abrasive characters I had expected , I found them on the whole to be men of sensibility and humour . |
| 29 | ‘ Sorry , Mrs Scamp , but I found 'em on the floor in the back of the cab . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |