Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes she wants me to work hard on the court and she is very serious and at home she is very nice to me . |
2 | You were quite happy for me to come home on the bus . |
3 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
4 | She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them . |
5 | You can have Piers , not literally , I mean just on the tape . |
6 | I mean conceivably on the tail end of policy H one yesterday , the new settlement is n't going to accommodate all the development needs of Greater York . |
7 | I mean obviously on the whole he ca n't guarantee what sort of priest we 're going to get , but the whole meeting was quite positive . |
8 | I remain continually on the look-out for unusual behaviour from inanimate objects . |
9 | I lay there on the couch and shuddered at the very thought . |
10 | The café itself is so crowded with smoke that I sit outside on a bench . |
11 | ‘ When I got home on the evening that it was announced Terry Venables had taken out an injunction , one of my children was very nervous and said ‘ Why do n't you throw in the towel ? |
12 | but then on the erm , Saturday , and the , that 's , and then on I say then on the bloody Friday night what happened he fell out the bed I phoned |
13 | I concentrated now on the driver . |
14 | that there is , this grid lock situation I mentioned earlier on a larger scale has al already occurs er on the way in that er basically to Earls Court as I mentioned earlier it 's in Shepherds Bush . |
15 | Cos I went in this morning I 'd better on the piss last night . |
16 | As I came home on the boat , I thought : ‘ This is a good thing , a fine thing , perhaps . |
17 | I parked right on the end of the erm the lane , just |
18 | I arrived there on a planeload of Canadian oil-drillers who were several inches taller than me even without their high-heeled boots . |
19 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
20 | The aggression may spring from the threat to my inner peace and well-being brought on by the anxiety which I impose unconsciously on the situation . |
21 | I recall that my right hon. Friend and I campaigned together on the same side in favour of a ’ yes ’ vote in the 1975 referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Community . |
22 | Er , as I said the government has already accepted when we introduced the legislation last year in the criminal justice act on money laundering , that there are far wider er interests and fidrer fi far wider implications than there have been ever before and I think the government needs to do a little bit more to show that it is aware of international implications and the sheer scale of what we 're dealing with and er I touched earlier on the question of indemnity , er perhaps the minister could specifically address that point . |
23 | The clothes I folded neatly on the chair . |
24 | As half-time approached and with the score at 0–0 , Reg and I shuffled nervously on the bench , but the duck was about to be broken . |
25 | I knocked eventually on the door of the horse-car and , after inspection and formalities that would have done an Iron Curtain country proud , was admitted again by Ms Brown to the holy of holies . |
26 | I knocked anxiously on the wooden door and waited patiently until the door opened and a small , plump , bearded man greeted me with a cheery hello . |
27 | When I heard recently on the radio that he had been arrested in Tasmania the wild fancy occurred that someone had forgotten to de-miniaturise him and that he had finally worked his way through to Australia . |
28 | Another beautiful volume was The Rosary by Florence M. Barclay which is a story intertwined with a song which I heard once on a record sung by Paul Robeson . |
29 | I tapped softly on the door and a quiet voice from the other side said to come in . |
30 | I tapped hard on the glass . |