Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't mind Come Up and See Me being released ; God willing it will go high enough for them to invite me on Top Of The Pops ! |
| 2 | We 'd got word of these outlaws passing through the woods , though they never came near the villages , and then this master-carpenter and his fellow came back to us and told us what had befallen them , and we did what we could for them to set them on their way back to Shrewsbury . |
| 3 | You 've got to go and ask for them to take you on the erm |
| 4 | During the next few days I saw a lot of ‘ Deemy ’ and it was he who suggested that Major Hal could clear the decks for me to accompany him on his next flight back to Siberia . |
| 5 | In return she showed them the Daimler and invited forty of them to visit her on the Dockers ' yacht , Shemara , where pink champagne was served amid costly fitments which were often detailed in the newspapers . |
| 6 | The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss . |
| 7 | I know it sounds mad but I suddenly had an image of them doing it on the carpet in the office like a couple of dogs . ’ |
| 8 | It 's a good idea of yours putting me on the floor Rocket . |
| 9 | It 's incredibly kind of you to meet us on the offchance . |
| 10 | Taken aback by her anger and foreseeing the likelihood of her leaving him on the strength of it , Jeremy switches tactics to conciliation . |
| 11 | Barenboim has identified the First Symphony of the 54-year-old Corigliano as a work of great courage , and it was equally brave of him to take it on tour . |
| 12 | I got a mate of mine to take it on Wednesday . |
| 13 | We brought her in , four of us carrying her on a wicket gate . |
| 14 | When the bills come in you pay them on the budget account cheque book and do n't have to worry whether the money is there or not . |
| 15 | Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning . |
| 16 | The doctor was concerned enough about him to trail him on a journey that Thomas then made to London Airport . |
| 17 | Fat women and bald-headed men standing in the doorways of tiny shops make jokes to him which he ca n't quite understand , and shout ribaldries to each other about him clapping him on the shoulder to indicate they 're not serious , and cutting slices of cheese and sausage for him to try . |
| 18 | This was his first mainline trip and he was grateful to Sam for his advice and also for him taking him on this trip . |
| 19 | ‘ And Spain was a cosy hideaway for our export villains ; ergo , her boyfriend was waiting for her to join him on the Costa del Crook . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Older than you , married , female : it was up to me to keep us on the straight and narrow . |
| 21 | No , she to she told me on the phone . |
| 22 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 23 | Sir , — When Malcolm Rifkind was made Minister of Transport I wrote a letter to him congratulating him on his appointment , expressing the hope that he would be a success in his job and asking him to instruct his Civil Servants to concentrate their efforts more on the railways of this country rather than on the roads . |
| 24 | He told me how , when he had first moved there , the local MP had written to him congratulating him on his climbing and mentioning that he had had a one-legged uncle who climbed . |
| 25 | People came up to us to congratulate us on the reading . |
| 26 | They drank their coffee and he took both cups and leaned across her to put them on the settle . |
| 27 | But something in the way Chambers kept glancing sidelong at her kept her on her guard . |
| 28 | It would be difficult for us to fund it on our own ’ . |
| 29 | You know , you 're worried about us threatening you on your borders , you 've been threatening us on our borders you get rid of yours we 'll get rid of ours , fair ? |