Example sentences of "[noun] on [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | telly on it 'll pick the telly up . |
2 | If there was a light on I could find my way out easy , but it 's too dark and confusing . |
3 | You can hear that one on Planet Cannonball and it had the most incredible effect ; the voltage on it would sag so much when you cranked it up that it sounded like a volume swell pedal . |
4 | As the tyre rolled , each point on it would enter the contact zone . |
5 | From this point on he would aim his life in a new direction . |
6 | From this point on he might have been in Oz for all he knew . |
7 | Perhaps he thought powerful attacks on her might produce the result he longed for . |
8 | says if if there were a tape record on you would say , Now what are we having for tea ? |
9 | Two years previously it would have been just another biker film , and two years on it would have been dated in terms of attitudes . |
10 | Thus any change in the structure of dendrites and the location of the synapses on them can change the neurophysiological relations of pre-and postsynaptic cells . |
11 | ‘ I 'm going to pull your skirt up , Ella , and if you 've got no knickers on you will get a bonus , you saucy little minx . |
12 | But alack , it does no bleat and bleat as if the little heart on it would burst . |
13 | It 's sharp as a razor , a real hunting knife , but if you keep the sheath on you can hold it a bit . |
14 | mm er yeah they should be done by Friday I should think cos if all they 're doing is putting a coping edge on it 'll make it look nicer at the back . |
15 | Any attack on him would bring down excommunication on you . |
16 | But it is appropriate to ask whether the brutal attack on her would have happened if she had been armed with the kind of baton the Home Secretary has banned . |
17 | Fathers who choose instead to commit acts of oral sex or buggery on them will commit no offence save where the girl 's consent , in the narrow , legal sense of the term , is lacking or where it has been obtained by threat , which may be difficult to prove . |
18 | As she put her coat on she could hear him rattling about in a conspicuous way with pans and dishes , and talking to Tam . |
19 | As the magma approached the surface , the pressure on it would decrease , and the gas in it would expand ; as the gas expanded it would take up more room , and this in turn would force the whole mass to rise faster and higher up the vent . |
20 | A school report on it would read ‘ Good try — could do better ’ . |
21 | But every every time we put our heating on you can guarantee you always get fleas , so we we d we do n't have the heating on no more , we just leave it off . |
22 | Well if you see an old man sitting there with a a shining fronted cap on you 'll know that 's me Granddad , in a white beard . |
23 | Fine golden hairs , which but for the sunlight on them would have been invisible , shone against the soft brown skin of her thigh . |
24 | Irene Daniels , who 's the programme 's researcher says ‘ if you have a clip that makes you and your family laugh , then it 's odds on it 'll make other people laugh too ’ . |
25 | ‘ Now I 'll go back and tell that silly little receptionist what a silly little toad he is too and if he does n't turn over the keys to the apartment that I booked and paid a deposit on I 'll scream all the way to his boss . ’ |
26 | But their dependence on it may cut people off from even considering other buying methods . |
27 | I 'm telling you , you wo n't have the fire on you 'll have the bleeding lot on . |
28 | One matter rose over erm in discussion over lunch which if we could get a clarification on it might help the remainder of the day . |