Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 2 | In addition , work which has been prepared on a word-processor and presented to teachers or assessors encourages them to concentrate on the content without being prejudiced by the presentation . |
| 3 | I hope that gradually we will stop seeing them begging on the streets without any prospects for their future . |
| 4 | Now , do you want me to turn on the fire for you ? |
| 5 | Do you want me to come on the nineteenth as well ? |
| 6 | Downstairs the Disco provided a large crowd with the sounds that made them get on the floor and bring a whole new ball game to the w world of the Barn Dance . |
| 7 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded . |
| 8 | It is providing an early dealing service to society members , allowing them to deal on the first day the shares are traded on the stock market . |
| 9 | She used to show you a collection of photographs which she kept in her wallet as if they were family photographs , but in fact these pictures were all pictures of men 's cocks , she used to make them stop on the way home at the photobooth in the entrance to the station , she 'd make them stand on the stool with their trousers down , she never got caught — Greta , on seeing me leave with an especially handsome man : ‘ I hope you 're on the pill . ’ |
| 10 | Bonington was impressed with the Darc Star climbers when he met them training on the Scottish peaks last winter . |
| 11 | Officials did n't even want them to appear on the track as they stage-managed another two-hour show for the audience at home . |
| 12 | Reading the article in this issue on Remembrance led me to reflect on the statement in our Royal Charter which says that one of the objects of the Association is to : |
| 13 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 14 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 15 | In one village , suddenly raided by the army at 2am , villagers made me lie on the ground and threw a blanket over me , telling the soldiers I was an old woman , too sick to move . |
| 16 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 17 | Can I just comment I think on the process , what happens is , is that in fact the application is made by the director of property services , we do n't now have a first resolution or a second resolution . |
| 18 | Er cos er my son-in-law I mean I put on the form right I 've got no children right . |
| 19 | No I do n't think so , but I mean I think on the whole that the pop the admin the erm Clinton Administrations Policy is to try and encourage the development of nat the use of natural gas , it 's environmentally er more acceptable and so I do n't see any particular erm direct threat this year . |
| 20 | My nephew thinks I stay on the bus right into the estate , but I do n't always . |
| 21 | Oh he 's brilliant , he has them stuck on the side of his wardrobe door on big pages this size , you know , maybe this height , and it 's detailed right through the whole thing . |
| 22 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't be surprised to find me sitting on the tee in the lotus position , ’ he warned . |
| 24 | It 's not unusual to find them basking on the slopes of the teeing areas . |
| 25 | When Ella came in , exactly three minutes later , she found them standing on the hearthrug , hand in hand . |
| 26 | An hour and a half later found me flopped on the floor of the turret in a serious state — my vaunted practicality in utter disarray . |
| 27 | He let them trail on the ground . |
| 28 | Two external consultants helped them focus on the key issues . |
| 29 | The specialist architectural press ignores this amorphous school of design , while even the Prince of Wales has nothing to say on the subject , reserving his spleen for imaginative buildings that he and so many of his future subjects profess to hate . |
| 30 | Can for the purpose of continuing the discussion , can we concentrate I think on the A fifty nine corr otherwise we shall get slightly cross threaded here . |