Example sentences of "[pers pn] on a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial . |
| 2 | She , she 's got him on a string ai n't she ! |
| 3 | Give him a mug of cocoa and a big kiss and send him on a month 's leave . |
| 4 | Sit her on a stranger 's knee and she may seem content , but compare her rigid posture with how relaxed she is on a parent 's knee . |
| 5 | Every hour after the operation , a nurse took his temperature and plotted it on a progress ' graph . |
| 6 | I used to hum a tune and strum it on a child 's dulcimer , painfully seeking out the names of the notes . |
| 7 | You could n't really manage it on a subaltern 's pay . |
| 8 | By a stroke of luck , she had spotted it on a colleague 's bookshelf before lunch . |