Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 2 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 3 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 4 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 5 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 6 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 7 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 8 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 9 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 10 | He gave me the most trouble by returning more potential Pathfinders than any other CO : hut not only — aircrew he walked about Gransden with a wad of railway warrants in his pocket , and anyone who offended got one on the spot . |
| 11 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 12 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 13 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
| 14 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 15 | They , they stopped having them on the , the seafront anyway . |
| 16 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
| 17 | If you tried to pat her on the shoulder and say ‘ There , there , ’ anything might happen . |
| 18 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 19 | He then tried putting them on the roll — about tyre . |
| 20 | She is pictured with boyfriend , operations supervisor at the computer centre , who invited to join her on the two-day trip . |
| 21 | So he tried to show them on the piano . |
| 22 | He said he 'd heard it on the radio this mornin' . |
| 23 | His daughter Diane Perry said she was rung by her husband from work after he 'd heard it on the radio . |
| 24 | See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’ |
| 25 | Then I 'd wondered if some women who 'd stopped me on the path had taken it . |
| 26 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 27 | He 'd met her on the beach walking with a dog , a wire-haired terrier called Dolly which had come sniffing up to him . |
| 28 | Typical of Geoff 's talent was the opening goal he scored to set us on the way to a Wembley victory over Everton in the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final in April 1991 , cleaving his way though The Toffees ' defence to head home from a corner and , perhaps partly because of Palace 's and Geoff 's success at Wembley , he was awarded his first full International cap when England travelled to Turkey for the European Nations Championship tie on May Day 1991 . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 30 | But at least he did n't spot that until he 'd got me on the committee . ’ |