Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You might have heard me on the radio , ’ she said . |
| 2 | She had heard nothing on the radio . |
| 3 | So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town . |
| 4 | Rachel turned in the cramped space and saw that someone else had joined them on the jig . |
| 5 | Then I 'd wondered if some women who 'd stopped me on the path had taken it . |
| 6 | The Committee had simply patted them on the back like spoilt children and told them , ‘ Now just send your children back to school . ’ |
| 7 | The only reason I was here was because Joyce , who was to spend the first two days at the Centre with me , had continuously reminded me on the journey that the decision to go to Bristol had been mine and mine alone . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's only a bunch of flowers , ’ he said , pleased with her response , ‘ although I can guarantee that I have bought them , and have n't picked them on the way over . |
| 9 | FOURTEEN months ago Matchbox announced that repeats of the TV series Thunderbirds had caught them on the hop and they would n't be able to supply any tie-in toys for Christmas 1991 . |
| 10 | So far as teachers are concerned , it might be necessary to tap a pupil on the shoulder to point out that s/he has dropped something on the floor , or to grab hold of a pupil to prevent an assault by that pupil on another . |
| 11 | Ace had caught her on the hop again . |
| 12 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 13 | The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind . |
| 14 | Well he 's probably just caught him on the back of on the back of the calf but er I thought it was as you say I thought it was a nice sharp incisive tackle . |
| 15 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 16 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 17 | If it had n't been she would probably have dropped it on the way here . |
| 18 | You have dropped it on the floor . ’ |
| 19 | I 've dropped mine on the floor . ’ |
| 20 | Having blamed it on the Bundesbank , he can go on to talk about other things — such as sex and tax , perhaps . |
| 21 | I have always disagreed with those in the black community who , when they have applied for jobs and have not been successful , have blamed it on the colour of their skin . |
| 22 | She stood up to get her little-black hat , perched it on the side of her sleek fair head and skewered a pearl-tipped hatpin through the felt . |
| 23 | The twins perched themselves on the bed , Zach sat on the chair by the desk and George and Willie sat cross-legged with their backs leaning against the bookcase . |
| 24 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 25 | She had brought her son over from South Africa and while staying in Bristol had seen me on the television screen . |
| 26 | This is the second skirmish in a brief cross-border raid for Edinburgh 's Joyriders ( the previous evening had seen them on the charity gig trail with Mega City Four in Tufnell Park ) , out to bludgeon the capital 's callow youth into line with their handsomely appointed tuff-pop manifesto . |
| 27 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 28 | mm , I 've seen them on the front that 's all yeah , mm |
| 29 | Members were pleased when constituents said that they had seen them on the box , and only one Member had received complaints that he had not been seen . |
| 30 | Watch out for a driver or cyclist who has not seen you on the crossing — Rules 10 , 11 , 12 and 13 . |