Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 2 | Jim is coming to see me on the fourth of May . |
| 3 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 4 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 5 | Have you ever thought of knitting them on a larger scale ? |
| 6 | If you did , if you failed them on a regular basis , you would n't be here , right ? |
| 7 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 8 | Certainly , according to Hardie , ‘ in the case of allocating insurance premiums on particular lines of cover when setting individual budgets for the following year , head offices could look at their operating units ’ past claims records and load them on the poor performers while even awarding the equivalent of no claims bonuses to the good ones . |
| 9 | The importance of locational specifications in general can be gauged from the fact that there seem to be two basic ways of referring to objects — by describing or naming them on the one hand , and by locating them on the other ( Lyons , 1977a : 648 ) . |
| 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 | Made from the latest in Polymer technology Asics Gel has the unique ability to absorb vertical impact forces and disperse them on a horizontal plane . |
| 12 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 13 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 14 | You 'll want them on a long-line sweater or jacket , or else on a kind of Jolly Roger jumpsuit . |
| 15 | For example , the snake uses its forked tongue to gather scent particles from the air and tastes them on a special membrane , called Jacobson 's organ , at the back of its mouth . |
| 16 | A health clinic has stepped in to help patients who ca n't find a dentist to treat them on the National Health Service . |
| 17 | They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health . |
| 18 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 19 | It should out-point them on the rough stuff , too , for the Range Rover is still king of the wild frontiers . |
| 20 | When he spied his guests , he jumped to his feet and called a greeting , straightening the chairs and holding them one after the other to steady them on the uneven gravel while they sat down . |
| 21 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 22 | And carry them , either carry them , or push them on a two-wheeled trolley , all through the round the lace market to 's , and various other And if I were lucky , and the 's van was going round the lace market , and I 'd got three or four parcels , I used to go with little Tommy and his horse and van , round the lace market , and he was delivering dress goods then . |
| 23 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 24 | A van passed them on the other carriageway . |
| 25 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 26 | First , cases of ‘ excessive defence ’ have a grounding in legal justification , in that the occasion was one which justified the use of some force , and this places them on a higher social plateau than killings with no element of justification at all . |
| 27 | So massive a change of emphasis must be of fundamental significance , not only to the anthropologist and the social historian , but to the child psychologists , psychiatrists and psychotherapists whose very existence as a group depends upon the climate of opinion which regards their professional skills as valuable and necessary , and which places them on an equal footing in social esteem with the more anciently respected callings of the paediatrician and the pedagogue . |
| 28 | Place them on a flat surface and look at the heel counter from behind . |
| 29 | Place them on a sandy layer over seed compost in trays , adding more sand to cover all but the tips . |
| 30 | Their phone call came to my home in Hampstead inviting me to come to Toronto to meet them on the following Sunday . |