Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 2 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-30s , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 3 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-thirties , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 4 | If you want to use a mirror on a wall that is n't flat , you will need to mount it on blackboard , chipboard or plywood about 9mm thick . |
| 5 | It is perfectly simple , relatively speaking , to store on magnetic tape within a computer a full catalogue entry , including a classification symbol or symbols , and to label each segment of the information in such a way that the computer can be programmed to find it on demand . |
| 6 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 7 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 8 | The sun has got his on hip hip hip hooray . |
| 9 | Oh , want to stick it on top of that dome like cowboys do |
| 10 | yeah cos I want to put them on top |
| 11 | He got three months ’ jail but has served it on remand . |
| 12 | Uncle Bean agreed to bring the horses , except Switchback who Biddy would bring , and Jazz 's father promised to deliver them on site at nine am . |
| 13 | But it was diving into a frioend 's pool at a private party in the Oxfordshire village of Nettlebed which has left him on Traction at the Stoke Mandeville Spinal Injuries unit . |
| 14 | She says they want to spend it on recreation , holidays , books , equipment and special aids which will help them have a better life . |
| 15 | Cleverly she used the mirror from her powder compact to watch the unholy trinity of James Whitaker and rival photographers Ken Lennox and Arthur Edwards as they tried to capture her on film . |
| 16 | A scrawny nationalist in tattered jeans tried to grill him on independence for the benefit of the cameras and a woman in Capaldi 's fish caravan threatened to slap him round the face with one of her fish if he broke any election promises . |
| 17 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 18 | Each of the six weighed half a kilo so I was glad John came to meet me on arrival . |
| 19 | Oh , it was terrible , I 'd seen it on video , it 's really sad . |
| 20 | If he 'd strangled her on impulse it would have been there , and he could have slid her weighted body into the river , no one the wiser . ’ |
| 21 | Of course at that time we did n't realise she 'd done it on purpose . |
| 22 | The thing is that I I can do revamp it on computer . |
| 23 | In effect , each is swearing to keep it on pain of death . |
| 24 | In that case the appellant who was , and is , serving a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for murder , sought a declaration against the Parole Board and the Secretary of State that he was in effect entitled to know the reasons for refusing to release him on licence . |
| 25 | I know , I wondered why you 'd left it on table . |
| 26 | Between the 10th and 14th aspects conspire to bring you on line with your destiny . |
| 27 | ‘ And are you going to like it on Omega , Jenny ? ’ |
| 28 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
| 29 | I do n't think anybody appreciates just how much , and I would like to put it on record , how much George does on behalf of the provence a very considerable piece of work ! |
| 30 | But he 's got to do it on Access because there 's no money in the bank to write a cheque out and pay for the suit . |