Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] on the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have heard nothing on the Dave Norris situation for some while , but we must consider that he has gone . |
| 2 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 3 | We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen . |
| 4 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 5 | Now what happened , and it was a good procedure because what happened was that if anyone say on a Friday had found himself in a difficult situation , we would then discuss it on the Monday afternoon , er bearing in mind that he had taken it to the foreman and had got no response from the foreman , we could discuss it on a Monday afternoon , the convenor and the secretary would deal with it the following day , and in all probability , without having recourse to take it any further , reply to the man that the matter had been resolved and , and to his liking . |
| 6 | Scott was so pleased with the style he had evolved at Battersea , a treatment that humanised industrial forms without denying their function , that he also used it on the Guinness Factory at Park Royal , west London . |
| 7 | Miss Menzies had filled it with petrol on the Friday afternoon and used it on the Monday morning . |
| 8 | Had the Presbytery been selecting candidates and foisting them on the DUP , Smyth 's view would be more plausible . |
| 9 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 10 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 11 | They show it on the Leeds United — The Glory Years video about three times and it always appears on the ten best goals of all time . |
| 12 | He offered to sell it on the Keele campus . |
| 13 | ‘ Now that buyers have seen it on the Paris catwalks , it 's appearing again on the high street . |
| 14 | But however unpleasant monsoonal conditions can on occasion be , they are as nothing compared with the fearsome storms that hurl themselves on the Pacific with terrible regularity . |
| 15 | He had already told me on the Friday at the training session , and in front of about 20 of the lads , that I was n't in the team . |
| 16 | Sam and I can amuse ourselves on the Sunday , and that will give you the opportunity to take Anna to the Forest . ’ |
| 17 | But as long as she do n't forget Ga cos I wo n't see her , well we 'll see her on the Saturday but it well I suppose that 'll that wo n't make much difference will it ? |
| 18 | In Paris itself , his priority , thanks to Schellenberg , had got him on the Berlin Express , but B17 bombers of the American 8th Air Force operating out of England had inflicted severe damage on the Frankfurt railway marshalling yards . |
| 19 | CD modelled it on the SS Britannia on which he and his wife made the crossing in 1842 . |
| 20 | Got it on the Saturday . |
| 21 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 22 | UN officials suspect that , to ram the point home , his troops may have staged attacks and blamed them on the Khmers Rouges . |
| 23 | When Dad fed them on the Sunday evening , he was still in the run as usual , but when my father opened up on Monday morning , the bird was missing . |
| 24 | ‘ Perhaps Nigel killed him on the Saturday night . ’ |
| 25 | Bodie contacted him on the R/T . |
| 26 | ‘ We sell it as a novelty and make people sign a declaration saying they understand it is illegal to use it on the UK phone system . |
| 27 | ‘ Why , you 'll start by asking everyone on the Woodfield Estate , and if we still have n't found him , we 'll work our way through the rest of town . |
| 28 | But at £2 each , they are expensive and last year the Department of Health ordered GPs not to prescribe them on the NHS . |
| 29 | ‘ Gloucester positioned himself on the Guildhall steps — in the forefront of the assembly . ’ |
| 30 | She dumped herself on the Chesterfield beside him and ripped open her own packet , noisily . |