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Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I managed to track her down and eventually got her on the telephone .
2	I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma .
3	and only stuck me on the payroll
4	Charlie laughed , and gently cuffed him on the head .
5	Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National .
6	On the first landing he stopped and stole a glance down the Nightingale Gallery , so engrossed he jumped when Allingham suddenly touched him on the shoulder .
7	The merchant 's wife was about to rise but Cranston gently touched her on the shoulder .
8	They could n't cope either and , in desperation , literally dumped it on the doorstep .
9	One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us .
10	But did n't see it on the telly , only saw it on the .
11	But Pappy , who was always so willing to engage with her for hours and talk about school work or play chess , only patted her on the shoulder and fobbed her off with platitudes when the question of her mother came up .
12	Phormio 's alliance was hardly , given the distance of Akarnania from Athens , the considered policy of the Athenian Assembly — the general just made it on the spot — and may have been mere opportunism , for Athens made many alliances which never came to anything and were not expected to .
13	When he finally got her on the phone , she only asked him how he was then said she had to rush , and put the receiver down before he had time to tell her .
14	This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again .
15	In my maths in school we just finished them on the last day .
16	I just heard it on the radio . ’
17	Well I only just heard it on the news .
18	He stood there , no I do n't mean that , I mean me rubbish , oh dear , and he said erm er , sorry , he started sipping his coffee , he never said anything and then he says I 've got some bad news for you and I said oh my God no , car accident , I just heard it on the radio he said no , then he told me , oh God I nearly
19	Well I just heard it on the radio , we 're all I do n't really know .
20	Er , although Shirley , she took over the ro , erm , she took the role half way through of down on the floor splitting things up things over , er , the rest of them were cutting out words and what have you , and writing out the script the way they wanted it , and she just stuck them on the floor , , and they changed the script , so in that respect she was
21	Blunt hesitated , waiting for a pause , and finally tapped her on the arm .
22	just floated it on the top , not down the bottom .
23	He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves !
24	I always used it on the tongue or used dexies and black bombers , y'know , swallowed pills and things .
25	When a thought occurred to her , she quickly noted it on the pad .
26	Her hand throbbed beneath his where he still trapped it on the table .
27	I said to her , ‘ I 'm not willing to argue with you here because it would get me into trouble but if I ever saw you on the street I would ’ .
28	The hand promptly slapped her on the neck , and she leapt into the air with shock and surprise ; but she was even more surprised when she was offered more feed .
29	Yeah and when she got up to leave he just like patted her on the bum kind of thing and Jess saw it and Jess thought oh he 's trying to make me jealous
30	He trusted him on India , but also used him on the most sensitive domestic issues .