Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 2 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 3 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 5 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 6 | You 've got me on the touhgest part of the course and I 'm quite out of breath . |
| 7 | Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know ! |
| 8 | And then you 've got him on the right hand side look making cheese , this is brother again , that 's not brother . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In arriving at these estimates I have based them on the following estimations and assumptions : |
| 11 | We 've already complimented you on the general pass rate . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So I wo n't go through the rest of it , it 's a long and er it 's just brought us on the same sort of thing , but what it proves is that we are getting somewhere and that is what I thought was rather important news , which I want to do . |
| 15 | His wife , who was alleged to have aided and abetted him on the second occasion was jailed for three years after a two-day trial . |
| 16 | On September 13 the Guangming Ribao , pilloried her on the front page under the headline , Dai Qing — the Rebellion ‘ Reporter ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Have you not heard of Resenence Jeopardy ? ’ she 'd asked him on the first day of their acquaintance . |
| 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 | I would 've put them on the same level in all honesty |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They 've put him on the top floor like the other ones we 've had . ’ |
| 24 | He had put it on the draining board . |
| 25 | The Renaissance was a rebirth of the Alexandrian-Roman spirit , and it has taken us on the same path . |
| 26 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 27 | Generations of inventors and investors have kept us on the technological frontier . |