Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | telly on it 'll pick the telly up . |
| 2 | If there was a light on I could find my way out easy , but it 's too dark and confusing . |
| 3 | You can hear that one on Planet Cannonball and it had the most incredible effect ; the voltage on it would sag so much when you cranked it up that it sounded like a volume swell pedal . |
| 4 | As the tyre rolled , each point on it would enter the contact zone . |
| 5 | From this point on he would aim his life in a new direction . |
| 6 | From this point on he might have been in Oz for all he knew . |
| 7 | says if if there were a tape record on you would say , Now what are we having for tea ? |
| 8 | But alack , it does no bleat and bleat as if the little heart on it would burst . |
| 9 | It 's sharp as a razor , a real hunting knife , but if you keep the sheath on you can hold it a bit . |
| 10 | mm er yeah they should be done by Friday I should think cos if all they 're doing is putting a coping edge on it 'll make it look nicer at the back . |
| 11 | Any attack on him would bring down excommunication on you . |
| 12 | But it is appropriate to ask whether the brutal attack on her would have happened if she had been armed with the kind of baton the Home Secretary has banned . |
| 13 | Fathers who choose instead to commit acts of oral sex or buggery on them will commit no offence save where the girl 's consent , in the narrow , legal sense of the term , is lacking or where it has been obtained by threat , which may be difficult to prove . |
| 14 | As she put her coat on she could hear him rattling about in a conspicuous way with pans and dishes , and talking to Tam . |
| 15 | As the magma approached the surface , the pressure on it would decrease , and the gas in it would expand ; as the gas expanded it would take up more room , and this in turn would force the whole mass to rise faster and higher up the vent . |
| 16 | A school report on it would read ‘ Good try — could do better ’ . |
| 17 | But every every time we put our heating on you can guarantee you always get fleas , so we we d we do n't have the heating on no more , we just leave it off . |
| 18 | Well if you see an old man sitting there with a a shining fronted cap on you 'll know that 's me Granddad , in a white beard . |
| 19 | Fine golden hairs , which but for the sunlight on them would have been invisible , shone against the soft brown skin of her thigh . |
| 20 | ‘ Now I 'll go back and tell that silly little receptionist what a silly little toad he is too and if he does n't turn over the keys to the apartment that I booked and paid a deposit on I 'll scream all the way to his boss . ’ |
| 21 | But their dependence on it may cut people off from even considering other buying methods . |
| 22 | I 'm telling you , you wo n't have the fire on you 'll have the bleeding lot on . |
| 23 | One matter rose over erm in discussion over lunch which if we could get a clarification on it might help the remainder of the day . |