Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] on the [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 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 ) . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | A health clinic has stepped in to help patients who ca n't find a dentist to treat them on the National Health Service . |
12 | They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health . |
13 | 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 " . |
14 | It should out-point them on the rough stuff , too , for the Range Rover is still king of the wild frontiers . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | A van passed them on the other carriageway . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Their phone call came to my home in Hampstead inviting me to come to Toronto to meet them on the following Sunday . |
20 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
21 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
22 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
23 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
24 | Manchester United wait on Bryan Robson 's decision on his fitness for the Rumbelows Cup Final against Nottingham Forest today , and hope to use the match to launch them on the final leg of their title procession . |
25 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
26 | Remove the stitches from the standard gauge machine with the garter bar and replace them on the chunky machine . |
27 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
28 | It is equally sensible for you , too , to be in membership of a trade union representing you on the appropriate negotiating body , and you are encouraged so to do . |
29 | there for three pairs which was just as well I stopped you on the last one . |
30 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |