Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 2 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 4 | On the continuum of penal philosophy which stretches from the punitive to the reformative , the Nicaraguan penal system has placed itself on the far edge of reform . |
| 5 | Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know ! |
| 6 | And then you 've got him on the right hand side look making cheese , this is brother again , that 's not brother . |
| 7 | The bill was passed by the House by 273 votes to 154 ; the Senate had approved it on the previous day by 62 votes to 34 . |
| 8 | But I have n't had anything on the other piece and I want something on . |
| 9 | In arriving at these estimates I have based them on the following estimations and assumptions : |
| 10 | We 've already complimented you on the general pass rate . ’ |
| 11 | Unionists proved quite able to handle the new mass electorate , and their efforts to gear up to meet new challenges in and after 1911 had set them on the right road . |
| 12 | The popular explanation of his condition was that his mother , in late pregnancy , had been knocked over by a runaway circus elephant , and the shock had imprinted itself on the unborn child . |
| 13 | She 'd found herself on the receiving end of a great deal of teasing about her impromptu topless dip in the sea and her valiant rescuer , and she 'd fenced it as calmly as she could . |
| 14 | Buzz settled herself on the upright chair by Elinor 's bed , firmly clasping her old-fashioned handbag on her lap . |
| 15 | On a shelf was a pebble that had been polished by running water ; it was ovoid , a piece of granite about big enough to hold in a clenched fist ; a seam of quartz halved it on the diagonal . |
| 16 | On September 13 the Guangming Ribao , pilloried her on the front page under the headline , Dai Qing — the Rebellion ‘ Reporter ’ . |
| 17 | Matter of fact Dad , he agreed with the management for er er er You see the management never wanted anybody on the minimum wage , never wanted to be on the min , so he agreed with 'em f for a special price for our coal we got out . |
| 18 | Worse , they had lost Gooch after a ball from Moseley had reared up and struck him on the left hand , breaking a bone , although until the match was over even his team thought it was only bruised . |
| 19 | Leese claimed that his ‘ martyrdom ’ had been achieved against the wishes of the Jury who had acquitted him on the serious charge . |
| 20 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 21 | Karelius had stationed himself on the right flank , a little to the rear of those in the very forefront . |
| 22 | Of whom there were more than a few I would imagine , thinking of how she had thrown herself on the poor defenceless Marcus . |
| 23 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
| 24 | They 've put him on the top floor like the other ones we 've had . ’ |
| 25 | He had put it on the draining board . |
| 26 | perpetual insults that every decent labour man has endured through standing up for his country in the hour of her crisis from men who have foisted themselves on the Labour movement by wirepulling tactics . |
| 27 | Generations of inventors and investors have kept us on the technological frontier . |