Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 2 | Once , months later , when she went to the Regency on a Saturday night with some girlfriends she practically bumped into him on the stairs . |
| 3 | ‘ They disagreed with him on the size of the tax reduction . |
| 4 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 5 | Once a month we reported to them on the editorial , marketing and financial developments of the magazine . |
| 6 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 7 | He knelt beside her on the hearthrug . |
| 8 | Yes , I have n't brought the modular things I mentioned to you on the phone the other day but I think it would be very useful to sit down and look at structuring that |
| 9 | Only I would have probably braked , changed down ended up in second and crept past it on the inside and then speeded up again . |
| 10 | As Mr Mansell hesitated , Emerson Fittipaldi from Brazil and Arie Luyendyk from Holland zoomed past him on the main straight . |
| 11 | And it seemed to them that there came against them on the part of the Christians full seventy thousand knights , all as white as snow : . |
| 12 | Sandys ' personal commitment involved disagreement with his senior civil servants who advised against it on the grounds that it would arouse opposition from the urban local authorities and private developers who would be forced to seek sites beyond the green belt . |
| 13 | I was with the South African team throughout their travels in Australia and New Zealand and found them an exceptionally nice group ; agonized with them on the eve of the referendum on reforms back in South Africa when there were last-minute scare reports of a major swing to the right wing ; rejoiced with them when the vote when 68% for sanity , a far greater margin than any of us had dared hope for ; and generally enjoyed with them their victories and their considerable achievement in reaching the semi-final stage . |
| 14 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 15 | In one account of the visit , it is said that the Emperor was loathe to allow the doctor to leave China and did so only after Garvine appealed to him on the grounds that he wished to return to Scotland and attend to his aged and ailing father . |
| 16 | At the same time , the sound of distant gunfire , explosions and shouting came to him on the night breeze , somewhere off his right and muffled by the intervening trees . |
| 17 | It was an insight which came to her on the spur of the moment . |
| 18 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
| 19 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 20 | Kate stirred beside him on the sofa , and Peter smelled her perfume . |
| 21 | Holly saw his face as he passed behind him on the perimeter path , a face that was scraped with despair . |
| 22 | So she paid for it on the spot and took it home . |
| 23 | She turned towards him on the pew and put her hands up and caught his collar . |
| 24 | She turned from him on the words and was aware that her tone had risen at the last . |
| 25 | Yesterday a Teesside Crown Court jury was told by James Spencer QC , prosecuting : ‘ That lady survives today but she is permanently brain damaged and disabled and she is unable to say what happened to her on the morning on Wednesday , August 29 , 1990 . ’ |
| 26 | Nothing happened to me on the way to the theatre . |
| 27 | And it was girls in school then that s s you know when you started talking about , Ooh what happened to me on the beach and that . |
| 28 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |
| 29 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 30 | Three or four cars wheezed past us on the dusty road . |