Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [vb pp] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm making arrangements to pay mine er but when I get paid on Friday it were going through , got ta pay him twenty five pounds and then fifteen pounds every fortnight thereafter and it 'll take seven months to pay but that 's all he can get off us . |
| 2 | Erm I think based on table nine erm the increase er by thirty four workers per hectare would cause Craven some problems . |
| 3 | I spoke with the MM who had never heard of me , never read anything I had written and never heard anything I 've said on radio , e.g. to callers on advice line phone-ins . |
| 4 | No he is n't Jane , but you ca n't really blame him , I 've gone on record , er it 's a case of repeating yourself , it 's not his fault ; the players when they 're out there on the pitch , they ca n't do it . |
| 5 | I 've gone on duty with clothes drenched — you 'd have night uniform on , and a cape . |
| 6 | You start to think , well of course , had I done so-and-so yesterday , had I done , and I 've missed on so- and-so , so you sort of , review the day for a couple of hours , and then it gets to about four o'clock and now you 're thinking , Oh my God , I 'm at the accountants the next day , I 'll be so tired , I 'll be you know , and it 's too late to do anything about it now , so now you 're having a bad day the next day as well because you 've got yourself all stewed up about that . |
| 7 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 8 | As I 've touched ON meter boxes … |
| 9 | Which is funny , because all the Manson girls that I 've seen on film and stuff , when they talk about Charlie 's music they always say , he was great , he was as good as Tom Jones ! |
| 10 | Yeah that that used to be I 've seen on film I 've seen that you know like in Stornoway and places like that they carried the coffins |
| 11 | It 's the best performance I 've seen on screen all year , ’ says one member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , who give the awards . |
| 12 | Tell me about the pedal board I 've seen on stage … |
| 13 | I feel a lot stronger now and that was the best I 've felt on Monday . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't know about you , but that comment , which was surely not a carefully considered one , rings truer than any homily on the state of matrimony I 've heard on Oprah or seen embroidered on a sampler . |
| 15 | K. R. I 've moved on people sleeping rough — perhaps take him a hundred yards from the shop wherever he was — ‘ On your way . |
| 16 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 17 | Asked where he 's been since he and Stephen Luscombe went their separate ways , the man who once lived on the ceiling claims : ‘ Apart from trying to find the best dog in the world , I 've worked on film scores , including one for an animated film , several pieces for Channel 4 documentaries as well as the incidental music for a Radio 4 play . |
| 18 | but that 's no problem for me , it used to be a problem but it is n't now because I 've worked on building up my confidence in other things so I 'm good at quite a lot of things and I always keep re-enforcing that that I 'm good at doing these things . |
| 19 | Was it so much better than anything else I 've read on Hawking because it was written with the sensitivity and understanding of someone suffering from a disability in some ways similar to his ? |
| 20 | I just know that I would n't sacrifice the experiences I 've had on drugs for anything . ’ |
| 21 | And erm you know , I I 've had on occasion , when there have been a couple of people in our flat , we had n't either done or said anything . |
| 22 | And the last three weeks I 've put on road safety because I know there 's a lot of road safety stuff |
| 23 | I 've been to the natural childbirth classes in Muswell Hill , I 've sat on sag-bags and chanted ‘ Ommmmmm ’ with the best of them . |
| 24 | I 've been very poor , I 've cleaned toilets for Mecca , I 've slept on Euston station , and I never want to be like that again . |
| 25 | I 'm a practical sort of person and perhaps I can refer to my area of work as the President said since nineteen eighty four I 've concentrated on health and safety and workplace legislation . |
| 26 | One track I 've omitted on purpose the Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman , in which Dame ‘ Bella ’ is joined by Nellie Walker , and does not attempt to sing it with herself as Elisabeth Schumann did . |
| 27 | I 'm always short of money , she needs such a lot of extra things , you would n't believe the money I 've spent on bedding , laundry , special chairs , clothing . |
| 28 | Of course they do n't know whether I 'm married or single , why I 'm buying so much food , or how much money I 've spent on food that week . |
| 29 | The money I 've spent on cars , I mean |
| 30 | Patrick himself made a statement to my sister which I 've got on tape , saying he 'd been discarded by the woman he married . |