Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure . |
| 2 | Stephanie picked Mary up — Mary liked to be picked up — and perched her on one hip as she walked from bed to bed . |
| 3 | Michael impatiently thrust him on one side and brought out the sack . |
| 4 | To open the walnuts we placed them on one stone and hammered with another . |
| 5 | Although the jury acquitted him on one murder charge , it was deadlocked over a second and a riot charge , and a retrial was arranged for Sept. 17 . |
| 6 | A master asked him on one occasion whether a word was nominative or dative , and back came his answer : ‘ I do n't really care , sir ! ’ |
| 7 | After three or four casual meetings with the critic Mervyn Levy , Minton took him on one side at the Chelsea Arts Club and informed him of his homosexuality , not wishing to implicate Levy unwittingly with a man who , from a certain point of view , was beyond the pale . |
| 8 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 9 | she took it on six year , he says seven to eighty so she looks like working for next six year |
| 10 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 11 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 12 | Now he staggered towards Holly , making a path between the tables and benches and the backs of sitting men that flanked him on one side , and the waiting line on the other . |
| 13 | ‘ I had them on one night at the South Bank Poly and I just thought to myself , ‘ I ca n't be bothered with this , I really ca n't ’ . |
| 14 | Quick as a flash , Baba Yaga 's daughter turned her visitor into a needle , stuck her into the birch-broom , and set her on one side . |
| 15 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |