Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 2 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 3 | Uncle Bean agreed to bring the horses , except Switchback who Biddy would bring , and Jazz 's father promised to deliver them on site at nine am . |
| 4 | Cleverly she used the mirror from her powder compact to watch the unholy trinity of James Whitaker and rival photographers Ken Lennox and Arthur Edwards as they tried to capture her on film . |
| 5 | A scrawny nationalist in tattered jeans tried to grill him on independence for the benefit of the cameras and a woman in Capaldi 's fish caravan threatened to slap him round the face with one of her fish if he broke any election promises . |
| 6 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 7 | Each of the six weighed half a kilo so I was glad John came to meet me on arrival . |
| 8 | Airline officials agreed to let us on board and we climbed the gangway into the plane . |
| 9 | Someone from a hostel in London came to see me and said they would have me , so when I went to court in Sheffield the judge decided to put me on bail for four weeks , on condition that I stayed at the hostel and that I did n't drink , and also if I attended the Jules Thorn psychiatric unit , which is part of St Pancras Hospital , for a ten-day assessment . |
| 10 | And their own car , which they needed to take them on honeymoon to Scotland , was ruined in the flood . |
| 11 | They decided to take it on board , and as part of their culture change , they will not have people working beyond a certain time at night . |
| 12 | Somehow the Customs officers managed to get me on board their boat , with Herbert and Startop , but our boat sank , and the two convicts had disappeared . |
| 13 | The lifeboat crew administered first-aid to the fisherman and despite the problems they managed to get him on board their vessel and return him to shore . |
| 14 | Mr Jaggers told me Miss Havisham wished to see me on business , so I said I would go the next day . |
| 15 | The parents contended that though the injuries were sustained before birth , the child continued to suffer them on birth and up to his death . |
| 16 | They always had to do them on Boxing Day , so that the letters went into the first possible post after Christmas . |
| 17 | Ronnie therefore had to finish it on site , spending the best part of a week-end in the palace perfecting the pattern march and joining the last of the pieces together . |
| 18 | I had to take him on trust on that . |
| 19 | Well they reckoned he when he walked out so what was it er Francis wanted to see him on grass or something . |
| 20 | ‘ I really wanted to see you on behalf of Annabel , ’ Scott said . |
| 21 | I wanted to try them on right there but for months he let them dangle in the closet upstairs , growing the wrinkles and airpockets that would finally fit his shape , the peculiar wishbone of his shanks . |
| 22 | He had made a fortune out of the slave trade and wanted to spend it on land . |