Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That makes me a bit peeved , you know : we can serve them , but not mingle with them on the other side . |
| 2 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 3 | Just the same as you can accept the fact that somebody says to you that I can not really afford your windows , right , just the same as when you first speak to them on the phone , you can say oh sorry , sorry to bother you and put the phone down because it said you |
| 4 | I speak to her on the phone almost every day and she 's really important to me . ’ |
| 5 | sit near her on the bus-bench |
| 6 | ‘ Mind you look after them on the journey and buy them sweets and comic books for the train . ’ |
| 7 | So perhaps we can have a look there , and this will appear on the ne and , and I suggest we look at it on the next General Purposes Committee . |
| 8 | When Rodie heard of what happened , she went up to Sam 's room and comforted him enough to bring him downstairs and sit with them on the terrace . |
| 9 | well you drive through it on the main road and it goes both sides of the road |
| 10 | Their status will be reduced to that of assembly-line workers , required to bolt their prescribed parts on to the pupils that pass before them on the conveyor belt . |
| 11 | To win , you must throw your opponent , ideally on his back ; or dispose of him on the ground with an armlock , strangle or 30 second hold . |
| 12 | I 'll have to spirit you away to my cave , and dispose of you on the white-slave market , just like wicked old Hasan . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We shall see how we deal with it on the next album , ’ Colin concludes . |
| 14 | Hold it over you tightly and roll in it on the floor . |
| 15 | It is also easier to assume that you have someone 's undivided attention when you talk to them on the ‘ phone . |
| 16 | I look back now and think we are actually still doing that , not in the military aspect , in civvy street , we 've got people , real nice people , you talk to them on the street and you get them at the kill and the hackles go up , you can see the adrenalin pumping round their body , you can see the kind of excitement in their eyes and you can see the terrier men grabbing by the the scruff of the neck , bleeding and then throwing . |
| 17 | They talk to us on the field — nothing special , just talk . |
| 18 | ‘ Come sit beside me on the bed . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Sit beside me on the bed , just for a little while longer , until I get to sleep ? ’ |
| 20 | And then I used to get on to the dray and sit beside him on the box and then we 'd go as far as Road , which is quite a stretch and I used o walk back . |
| 21 | Look out for the kissing gate on your right and go through it on the path heading to the lake which passes through Long How Wood . |
| 22 | If things go against me on the ninth , then I go somewhere serious . " |
| 23 | Frightening , really , when you think of her on the goggle-box , laying down the law . ’ |
| 24 | Do n't wither on the sterile sidewalks of Paris , he exhorted , ‘ come and paint with me on the heath , in the potato field , come and walk with me behind the plough and the shepherd , come and sit with me , looking into the fire — let the storm that blows across the heath blow through you . ’ |
| 25 | Sophie was supposed to be doing the chorus so I grabbed Mary , and said come with me on the half way through , called Sophie why are you doing all the talking Dot and not Mary ! |
| 26 | As I search for it on the pavement , one of the girls says , ‘ Look at the yid licking the gutters for pennies . ’ |
| 27 | We can not escape the conclusion that many of those employed in the Service feel a deep sense of dissatisfaction with the organisation and management of it as a whole and that a gulf has grown up between the establishments in the field and the staff who work in them on the one hand and headquarters at the Home Office in London on the other . |
| 28 | We need to condemn that and get on with what the public desperately wants to see … action to try to respond to what they see around them on the ground , ’ he said on Radio 4 's The World This Weekend . |