Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope you 're coming to see me on the first night , Georg . |
| 2 | Jim is coming to see me on the fourth of May . |
| 3 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 4 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 5 | A health clinic has stepped in to help patients who ca n't find a dentist to treat them on the National Health Service . |
| 6 | They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health . |
| 7 | When he spied his guests , he jumped to his feet and called a greeting , straightening the chairs and holding them one after the other to steady them on the uneven gravel while they sat down . |
| 8 | Their phone call came to my home in Hampstead inviting me to come to Toronto to meet them on the following Sunday . |
| 9 | Manchester United wait on Bryan Robson 's decision on his fitness for the Rumbelows Cup Final against Nottingham Forest today , and hope to use the match to launch them on the final leg of their title procession . |
| 10 | You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him . |
| 11 | European civilization was the first to impose itself on the whole surface of the globe . |
| 12 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 13 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 14 | At Aintree he beat The Thinker just over seven lengths and is due to meet him on the same terms , although Jimmy Frost , his rider , may put up a pound or two more than the minimum 10st . |
| 15 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 16 | He found it hard to remember whether you had to position yourself on the left or the right side . |
| 17 | ‘ It must be strange , ’ she said slowly , ‘ to have been part of the Revolution and then to find yourself on the opposite side from people you fought beside . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Look here : that was in broad daylight over a single strand of wire , not under fire from any machine guns , and with no patrolling goon with a gun to meet us on the other side . |
| 19 | And you 'll be pleased to know that Frank Dobson has agreed to meet us on the fourteenth of June and we will make sure , to the best of our effort , that that policy will be endorsed . |
| 20 | Their worthlessness is discovered only when the duped client attempts to sell them on the legitimate market . |
| 21 | As a teenager , I laughed off an incident when a nappy horse attempted to deposit me on the wrong side of the railings on a motorway bridge . |
| 22 | Stretch up as if you are trying to reach something on the top shelf of the kitchen at home and you know you are going to succeed . |
| 23 | She prised Burton out of digs in Streatham to install him on the top floor of her house in Pelham Crescent — just a few doors down from Emlyn Williams . |
| 24 | One day , as I tried to serve her on the quiet , two deep meaningful coughs from behind me raised the small hairs on my neck . |
| 25 | You 'd be well advised not to overdo it on the old liquid refreshment , however , as the return leg beside the river involves crossing an awful lot of stiles . |
| 26 | All that was necessary was for the porter to replace it on the wrong nail before going to Compline , and leave her its ineffective twin . |
| 27 | In other words , they have been trying to scratch themselves on the sandy bottom and get stranded by accident . |
| 28 | I hope to see you on the 29th at Bronllys . |
| 29 | We hope to see you on the 7th December , especially people from the south and west of the county . |
| 30 | Classic ritual of the disappointing album : buy it at the Megastore ; go for coffee as a way of prolonging the moment of consumption , rip off the cellophane , remove the card inlay ( taking care not to tear it on the little perspex teeth ) and scan the lyrics ( Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa/My pony boy ’ — shit ! ) ; tube home ( further lyric-skimming ) ; feed it to the CD player , skip to the second track while still halfway through the first , sample that , move on , hop and jump to the end and start wondering about forthcoming birthdays — then back to the beginning in the hope that maybe it is , as we used to say , a grower . |