Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rubbed it on each other , rather . |
| 2 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 3 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 4 | On one occasion Clara 's class purchased a pound of sausages , took them in with them , and roasted them on one of the burners , and ate them , in full scent and in fairly good view ; Mrs Hill appeared not to notice , and talked quietly on of Boyle 's law . |
| 5 | The woman was shocked when QC William Crawford put his hands on her waist and pecked her on both cheeks . |
| 6 | An individual who bought the FT All Share Index at 31 March 1982 and sold it on 31 August 1989 would have suffered tax ( at 40% and ignoring the annual exemption ) of 24.2% of the proceeds . |
| 7 | It was also rumoured that Lloyd George might advocate protectionist policies and Baldwin make have called the general election and fought it on protectionist policies in order to undermine any such move by Lloyd George . |
| 8 | But Joffre thought Lanrezac lacked fighting spirit and dismissed him on 3 September . |
| 9 | Stephanie picked Mary up — Mary liked to be picked up — and perched her on one hip as she walked from bed to bed . |
| 10 | He lifted her up and perched her on one of the kitchen stools , then filled the kettle . |
| 11 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 12 | He read her expression — enquiring — and touched her on both shoulders . |
| 13 | ‘ He ripped off a firm of disreputable City stockbrokers to the tune of about a million pounds and spent it on high living — yachts , mistresses , that sort of thing . |
| 14 | But whereas Edouard loved cars for their design , and their beauty , and collected them on that basis , Grégoire loved them for the engines under their gleaming bonnets . |
| 15 | A man who has slain Thomas Springall and blamed it on poor Brampton , afterwards making his death look like suicide . |
| 16 | In Sliwa 's last stunt he faked his own kidnapping and blamed it on off-duty police officers . |
| 17 | Pete took his jacket off , and hung it on one of the bookcase doorknobs . |
| 18 | He put his arms on Myeloski 's shoulders , leant forward and kissed him on both cheeks . |
| 19 | Before he climbed the gangway of the RAF VC10 he grasped her arm and kissed her on each cheek . |
| 20 | ‘ Vitor 's happy to take you , ’ she declared serenely , and kissed her on both cheeks . |
| 21 | She said , ‘ Lulu , how lovely to see you ! ’ and kissed me on both cheeks . ’ |
| 22 | Then he suddenly went up on his toes and both hands flashed out and clipped me on both cheeks . |
| 23 | Handle the peels only by their edges to avoid grease marks , and lay them on clean , lint-free paper or cloth while they wait for mounting , to avoid dust and scratch collection . |
| 24 | Preston , at the mouth of the River Ribble , lay roughly halfway between Lancaster and Warrington , and Forster 's horsemen reached and occupied it on 9 November , to be followed a day later by the slower-moving infantry . |
| 25 | OK , we 'll flush him and put him on forced diuresis . |
| 26 | She ironed their tiny strips of white embroidered cuffs and collars herself , and sewed them on fresh nearly every day . |
| 27 | Quick as a flash , Baba Yaga 's daughter turned her visitor into a needle , stuck her into the birch-broom , and set her on one side . |