Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] on " in BNC.

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1 I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies .
2 Then he asked me to kiss him on the lips and we kissed .
3 When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest .
4 Afterwards , when told he had best wait for his bodyguard , Caledor replied that he could expect no better bodyguards than these hunters , and asked them to accompany him on his quest to the shrine .
5 I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head .
6 ‘ And it was as a result of these conversations that he invited you to join him on the dahabeeyah ? ’
7 During the summer of 1977 she watched him play polo at Smith 's Lawn , Windsor and when , in February 1978 , he invited her to join him on a skiing party in Klosters , Switzerland there was much speculation that she might be the future queen of England .
8 She had scarcely recovered her composure from that frantic evening before he invited her to join him on the royal yacht Britannia during Cowes Week .
9 As the crew neared the still floating aircraft they spotted the pilot nearby , they approached him to bring him on board but he pulled a pistol out and was about to fire when the coxswain shot him .
10 Every penny of that meagre capital represented a pleasure foregone , a temptation denied , yet now I found myself wasting it on meals I did n't want with people who regarded me as a poor relative .
11 I found myself interviewing him on film and did various programmes with him .
12 After a month the crystals cleared and my vet advised me to keep him on Hills Science Diet CD .
13 he told me to put it on it
14 so I told him to keep them on the back of that door .
15 Hashim Ciftci told the Today newspaper that he shot cameraman Nick della Casa and his assistant Charles Maxwell after they hired him to guide them on an expedition to film fighting between the Iraqi army and Kurdish rebels in the mountains of northern Iraq .
16 I just recall that I got a bit of a shock when I heard they found him on MOD property .
17 My comments on his work were valuable only as an irritating pretext which permitted him to lecture me on Art .
18 ‘ The same way you ‘ swung it ’ when that charity show committee decided it wanted me on its bill , ’ she said .
19 She asked him to test her on fielding positions , and he marked out on the sand the two sets of stumps and the ten fielding positions around them .
20 No no she managed I told her on pain of death not to tell Pete that I was backing
21 The more he thought , the more I knew I had him on toast .
22 I knew I had him on toast .
23 I thought I want it on the C Ds .
24 I just saw somebody put it on them on the .
25 Anyway , I thought you took it on yourself to see to everything in the house over there ?
26 In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason .
27 It was n't the sort of long-term depression that had settled on him when his wife persuaded him to take her on holiday to Marbella .
28 Ah equally um , just to go off at a tangent a bit , um there 're a number of more radical theorists , in particular the um in the Bonnie Burstow book Radical Feminist Therapy , would say that um rather like with other forms of sexual crime , the people who 've been victimised , people who 've survived , are often inclined to say something along the lines of mm y'know did i did I bring it on myself kind of kind of feeling .
29 No , oh no , did I try it on smaller needles ?
30 ‘ How did I get it on my hand ? ’ she thought .
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