Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 2 | The noise is formidable , for the rocks clatter and bang away down a steel chute that dumps them back on the ground . |
| 3 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 4 | He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it . |
| 5 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 6 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 7 | I mean I do n't , I do n't know whether say they flung them out on the street is the right thing , cos I , I , I mean there 's all these places like Mencap and there 's a big one in Wellingborough |
| 8 | So they have they have in fact embarked on a course which now lets these newspapers really deliver them up on a plate I mean they can fry them , they can bake them , they can grill them , they can roast them because they 've put themselves in a position where they now deserve the criticism and the level of imagery which they 're getting . |
| 9 | Anyone fancy helping me out on a few voodoo dolls dressed in a famous black with blue/orange trim kit ? : - ) |
| 10 | ‘ A few people 's names have been mentioned , but at the moment Ian Leckie is going to look after the youth team , with John Hope helping me out on a Saturday . |
| 11 | ‘ A few people 's names have been mentioned , but at the moment Ian Leckie is going to look after the youth team , with John Hope helping me out on a Saturday . |
| 12 | He grips my arms and dumps me back on the pew . |
| 13 | Pick me up on the way . |
| 14 | And dad could knock me off on the way to get the papers . |
| 15 | DRAWING THEM IN ON THE WIRRAL |
| 16 | A deadline was set up but it has come and gone and we no have no alternative but to reclaim the shares and place them back on the market . |
| 17 | Yes yes I was I had a month 's terminal leave er I 'd er I 'd heard that there was a job going , er phoned them up on the on the Monday , had an interview Tuesday , started the Friday . |
| 18 | And erm she phoned me up on the Sunday . |
| 19 | He was speaking as he jerked himself out on the sandy foreshore . |
| 20 | As the ethereal strains of Ravel stole through the room , Penry let himself down on the sofa , eyes closed . |
| 21 | She levered herself up on an elbow , gazing down at his handsome , tanned face . |
| 22 | Perdita cried unashamedly after they left , fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane . |
| 23 | Neither of them now took notice of Aggie 's returning to the room and seating herself down on the leather couch . |
| 24 | Armed with this information , they would n't have picked him out on an identity parade . |
| 25 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 26 | Korda let him out on a three-picture deal with Fox , continued to pay him $15,000 a year but would take a large slice of what Fox paid him : from the three pictures Richard would earn about £80,000 . |
| 27 | We try and slip him in on the sly when we think we 've got them hooked . |
| 28 | turf her out on the bed she might sleep with me and you sleep on the settee or would be a bit better than two beds than the settee , an extra bed space for her mum 's house too much for over Christmas , that 's not fair she 's not all over the place . |
| 29 | ‘ You did n't know he was a drunken sot who beat her up on a Saturday night , did you ? ’ |
| 30 | He took the unravelling length of fabric from her and expertly refolded it , depositing it back on the stall . |