Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] on the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Downstairs the Disco provided a large crowd with the sounds that made them get on the floor and bring a whole new ball game to the w world of the Barn Dance . |
| 2 | Bonington was impressed with the Darc Star climbers when he met them training on the Scottish peaks last winter . |
| 3 | Reading the article in this issue on Remembrance led me to reflect on the statement in our Royal Charter which says that one of the objects of the Association is to : |
| 4 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 5 | He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window . |
| 6 | In one village , suddenly raided by the army at 2am , villagers made me lie on the ground and threw a blanket over me , telling the soldiers I was an old woman , too sick to move . |
| 7 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 8 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 9 | When Ella came in , exactly three minutes later , she found them standing on the hearthrug , hand in hand . |
| 10 | An hour and a half later found me flopped on the floor of the turret in a serious state — my vaunted practicality in utter disarray . |
| 11 | He let them trail on the ground . |
| 12 | Two external consultants helped them focus on the key issues . |
| 13 | I walked inside , came upstairs … and found her lying on the bed . |
| 14 | She was seen by neighbours as she made her way along Athelstane Road towards her home , minutes before passers-by found her lying on the pavement . |
| 15 | We found him huddled on the floor of a makeshift hospital in Bardera . |
| 16 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 17 | The workhouse master was called to Connolly 's cell and found him lying on the floor . |
| 18 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |
| 19 | When she got out of bed , she found him sitting on the top stair , listening to Dad and Mother downstairs in the kitchen , and crying . |
| 20 | Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ . |
| 21 | The doll had pins piercing the location of the heart when the police found it lying on the victim 's naked body . |
| 22 | They bought hot rolls and coffee in the little café , and ate them sitting on the sand dunes overlooking the sea , and then they wandered along the tideline searching for treasures . |
| 23 | ‘ A few minutes later two guys came running in with masks on they were both shouting and swearing and told me to lie on the ground . |
| 24 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 25 | Th they told me to default on the mortgage that I 'm paying for the property that my wife lives in , because the assessment does n't take into account that I |
| 26 | And there , the tailor , he 'd been trained in the war , and he he only had one la leg , and he seemed very nice , but er he told me to start on the Monday and then I got a letter . |
| 27 | On the third evening of the first week he sent one of his assistants into the dining hall and told him to get on the mike and chat to the campers/diners . |
| 28 | I noted him working on the machinery while we were waiting to ascend . |
| 29 | She recollected it falling on the face and sightless seeing eyes of Michael , the first of the Scarabae household she had ever beheld . |
| 30 | I realized she relied on the extra money . |