Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , Father , I never meant to kill , when I slipped out alone , and went to wait for him on the path by which I knew he must return . |
| 2 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 3 | D' you reckon mom will agree to come with us on the skiing ? |
| 4 | I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’ |
| 5 | In any proceeding in which no pre-trial review has been fixed , the district judge may nonetheless give notice to the parties requiring them to appear before him on the day named in the notice , so that the question of giving directions may be considered ( Ord 17 , rr 10 and 11(4) ) . |
| 6 | Yeah , so she 's going to come to me on the bus on the twenty third . |
| 7 | Julia went to stand beside him on the minute balcony and stared down across the valley . |
| 8 | Because it would have been childish to refuse she stepped out and went to stand beside him on the snow . |
| 9 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
| 10 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
| 11 | The occupants of this very undesirable residence with no mod. cons. were gobbling their way through two chicks a day each , which we continued to feed to them on the ledge , right near their box , every morning and late afternoon . |
| 12 | Or one of us would rush into the dressing room just before curtain-up and tell Terry there was someone who urgently needed to talk to him on the phone . |
| 13 | I used to talk to Him on the wireless — still do sometimes . |
| 14 | And I have to talk to him on the phone and I 'm saying speak to him very well . |
| 15 | Okay , well we 'll come back to that , if I may , in a moment , because I just want to move on again to another guest , who is waiting to talk to us on the telephone , and that is Lindsay McNeill , who is the Aviation Reporters for Travel News . |
| 16 | Well waiting to talk to us on the telephone now is Rupert Lancaster , who 's the managing director of Foders U K. |
| 17 | Alternatively , we would be happy to talk to you on the telephone if that is more convenient . |
| 18 | They were , indeed , a sorry and sadly bedraggled lot , so covered in diesel and smoke that it was quite impossible to discriminate among them on the basis of age , sex or nationality . |
| 19 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 20 | Its appropriateness for the Foreign Office area was on grounds of association and sentiment , rather than visual harmony , as on one side there were buildings of ‘ predominating importance ’ , and no local association to conflict with them on the other side . |
| 21 | However , the drafter should remember that problems frequently arise where one party to a contract seeks to escape from it on the grounds that the other is in breach of a condition , and that the time for performance of obligations ( other than payment of money ) under a commercial contract is normally " of the essence " : a failure to perform on time in accordance with the contract will therefore justify the other party in terminating the contract ( see Bunge Corpn v Tradax Export SA [ 1981 ] 1 WLR 711 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’ |
| 23 | She wanted so much to remain with him on the terms which had always existed between them , did not want the wealth and consequence of her real life to come between them before it needed to . |
| 24 | Svend Larsen had told him that the farm was becoming vacant and had offered to negotiate for it on the Colonel 's behalf , the islanders not wanting incomers to buy up farms for weekend occupation only . |
| 25 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 26 | I was disgusted to read your snide attack ( Disinformation , FACE 19 ) on ‘ White South African Musician Johnny Clegg ’ , who is one of the only white artistes in that country who has been fighting apartheid and trying to deal with it on the inside . |
| 27 | He returned to his workshop , hoping to bump into him on the way , but arrived without hearing or seeing a single trace of the forgetful scientist . |
| 28 | He came to sit beside her on the sofa ; she felt him look at her , intently . |
| 29 | She slid across the bed , making room for Johnny to sit beside her on the mattress . |
| 30 | She swallowed a sob of pure terror at the memory and Penry jumped up to sit beside her on the bed . |