Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had carried her along on the groundswell of his own forceful personality , but now that the ride was over she had time to wonder if she 'd done the right thing . |
| 2 | If they thought it was that bad they would of picked it up on the M O T would n't they ? |
| 3 | And Jim , when he comes in , they 're both , they 're both all , I 've pr priced them up on the top and er |
| 4 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 5 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 6 | It was nearly forty years since the history master had bawled him out on the pavement over there , in front of the House of Commons . |
| 7 | After the third ‘ Carry On ’ , the cast had been offered a profit-sharing scheme — and had all turned it down on the advice of their agents , who thought they would be better off getting increased salaries . |
| 8 | ‘ She told me she had made it up on the spot as soon as she saw the bloke . ’ |
| 9 | That she had n't heard of the plan was scarcely surprising , since Belinda had made it up on the spur of the moment . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going to the bathroom , ’ said Philip , putting the stupid lamp that his Mum had bought him back on the window-sill . |
| 11 | He referred to the policy of separate development as ‘ apart-hate ’ in his first few letters , until somebody must have clued him in on the correct spelling . |
| 12 | so , anyway , I just , we 've got it down on the floor and I says if we had a brown suite |
| 13 | Still she could hear her own cries , as she had begged to be released — but nay , he had flung her down on the stone floor and leaned over her . |
| 14 | When I had stretched him out on the floor , I stood over him . |
| 15 | He had found the second-hand playpen advertised on a newsagent 's board in Norwich and had brought it back on the top of the van . |
| 16 | I thought that was fair enough , so here we see Andy , Phil , Henri , Mike and Paul who have battled it out on the skirmish field and are ready for action in the sales field . |
| 17 | The grocer , a hard-faced ex-soldier whose right hand lacked a thumb ( Melanie wondered , had he lopped it off on the bacon-slicer ? |
| 18 | Lee took Philippa 's hand from her face and held it to her mouth , then placed it down on the bedcover . |
| 19 | Oh did leave them in there perhaps I 've put them up on the shelf . |
| 20 | No I 've not long put them out on the line . |
| 21 | ‘ They 've put me back on the Zikr case . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It has put me back on the golf course , ’ he said . |
| 23 | He arrived at the Great Northern station half an hour earlier than he had been instructed and immediately reported to the sergeant who had signed him up on the previous day . |
| 24 | If it had been left to me I would have put him out on the street long ago . |
| 25 | I think what radical feminism has done is popularised that and taken it out on the streets and provided a core of anger and rage and has mobilized women . |
| 26 | Well Jake was saying that he actually why you 're owed the forty five quid is he put us down on the wrong one with your . |
| 27 | And then , only then , when you 've stood him up on the kitchen table , and he 's all bejewelled and perfect , a knight crusader just like you 've dreamed , do you mutter the magic words . |