Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.

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1 I flung it on the open ledger on the table .
2 I laid her on the conc you know , like the , the step out
3 The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign .
4 Folding the poem , I laid it on the table .
5 I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back .
6 I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says
7 He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago .
8 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 . ’
9 Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’
10 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 .
11 When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse !
12 If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road .
13 I passed it on the way here from Bordeaux .
14 I clapped him on the back .
15 I got you on the bed and just lost my head completely .
16 Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I !
17 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
18 That was , I got it on the coach quite a nice thing
19 I posed her on the sofa .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 ‘ Sorry , Mrs Scamp , but I found 'em on the floor in the back of the cab . ’
23 I found it on the barbed wire .
24 I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed .
25 I think I caught her on the hop , for she was wearing trousers and sandals and … no , I can not remember what else … .
26 Yes , I think I caught her on the hop .
27 Under Lily Laverock 's auspices , she came to Vancouver on an annual concert tour , and when Marjorie Agnew and I approached her on the matter she was delighted to become a sponsor .
28 I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all .
29 I seen it on the News —
30 there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one .
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