Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 2 | Jarvis opened the case he had brought on the vestibule floor , carried the typewriter into Remove , where he put it on one of the desks , and took his clothes upstairs . |
| 3 | Although I take her on short trips to the shops , she ca n't cope with going too far from the house . |
| 4 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |
| 5 | I du n no what to do with it , so I stick it on my head . |
| 6 | The tent-pole bag was torn , so I put it on one side with the sewing kit . |
| 7 | Now I know it was a great honour but I could see no way of accepting , so I put it on the mantelpiece and more or less prepared to forget all about it . |
| 8 | He would n't take it , so I pressed it on Felix instead . |
| 9 | I got quite a lot of reading done — John managed to persuade one of the nice Italian staff at the British Council Library to let me have two more books than my five allowed , so I had them on her ticket ! |
| 10 | She also wore large red-frame glasses , although she wore them on top of her head , as if to keep in place the shock of ginger-red red hair which she 'd rubber-banded into a pony tail down most of the length of her back . |
| 11 | Although you see them on film , it 's not the same as seeing them actually there . |
| 12 | ‘ So you told me on the phone . ’ |
| 13 | Right and he says the wider gap , so you write it on the order form , right , it 's part of the order form close |
| 14 | Right so you do it on other side and then work out what that comes to , so why did you multiply that side by a hundred ? |
| 15 | I would say in employment yes , or people that want to get employment example would be yeah at M D secretary suddenly shot into the job of producing the company newspaper now I mean somebody like very quickly has to get to grips with this obviously can not give up six months to go and do it so you do it on a half day release basis . |
| 16 | the other one , so we left it on that channel , channel nine I think it were . |
| 17 | ‘ We did not want the burden of administration falling on the taxpayer so we put it on the prime beneficiary , which is the farmer himself . ’ |
| 18 | His bulk , thin but long , was hard for them to get up their spiral stairs , so they left him on the sofa below , on the floor that lay over an ironmonger 's shop . |
| 19 | There was this girl in a bath of asses milk , yuk ! and it had all turned to cheese , so they put her on the table with a dish of figs for afters . |
| 20 | She had thoughtful parents , though , who thought the Grand Canyon was for real and so they put her on the waiting list . |
| 21 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 22 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |
| 23 | He was in a fix — he had bought two papers and merged them together , and I was n't around , I was in New York , and I did the logo for him in a hurry , but I did n't have time to design a newspaper , nor was it the kind of thing for which he could pay a big design fee , so he described it on the phone and then he faxed me some pages of the existing papers , and I said well what you have to do is look at the old London Times and do that . |
| 24 | His room key and tag feel bulky in his pocket so he leaves them on the table with his newspaper before visiting the well assorted buffet table . |
| 25 | Once he congratulated me on my gang . |
| 26 | do you wan na little bit more table , that 's gon na be alright because you 've erm , if I move them if you put on that , if I hold them on my lap and then they wo n't get , you wo n't want to ask me , do you want another one ? |
| 27 | ‘ Only if I wore it on my head . ’ |
| 28 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 29 | Well I 'm blowed if I saw it on , on that receipt . |
| 30 | If I take them on the table they wo n't make so much noise then |