Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head .
2 They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’
3 ‘ You might have heard me on the radio , ’ she said .
4 Please do n't throw me on the floor !
5 The smaller bits we 'd look at for a time and then he 'd throw them on the fire .
6 Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified .
7 We really felt that this was a book to push on , and so we talked to the trade very early on , consulted them on the jacket and so on .
8 She leaned in and pecked me on the lips .
9 You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ?
10 I asked her to come to see me on the day after her arrival and at the hour of sunset , the best time for the wonderful view that I then had to offer her .
11 See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’
12 Will the hon. Gentleman please lay them on the table ?
13 ‘ Why did they build them on the top of hills ? ’ she asked Christopher .
14 But you must not build them on the graveyard .
15 You see I would like to see people at the end of this programme to have some idea , not just of fancy figures in the air , but of practical effects that will affect them on the ground .
16 ‘ Do you want me on the search , sir ? ’
17 ‘ Have I said something , then ? ’ he asked , taking off his cap and overcoat and hanging them on the door peg .
18 When I 'm fighting my sister he kicks me on the wotsit . ’
19 She picked up my underclothes from the floor and laid them on a chair .
20 Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil .
21 He once caught a pigeon , but it was mostly sparrows so small that , when he laid them on the embers to cook , they were ready by the time the feathers had singed and were hardly worth even sharing , except with the twins who insisted .
22 George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf .
23 He took an envelope from his breast pocket , extracted three photos , laid them on the desk .
24 Taking out a sheaf of documents , he laid them on the desk top .
25 He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster .
26 Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk .
27 So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely .
28 Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag .
29 Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker .
30 She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass .
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