Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head . |
| 2 | They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’ |
| 3 | You do n't fucking expect to see them on the side of a bar though do you ? |
| 4 | I asked her to come to see me on the day after her arrival and at the hour of sunset , the best time for the wonderful view that I then had to offer her . |
| 5 | See , she came to see me on the bridge . ’ |
| 6 | However , because of their wide scope , when judging such clauses under s 3 of the UCTA , one has to treat them on the basis that they exclude or restrict liability for total failure to perform by reason of wilful default . |
| 7 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 8 | ‘ I have to like them on the phone , ’ she says . |
| 9 | Lord knows what they say to her , but they must be on at her night and day , to get her into a state where she 's afraid to acknowledge me on the phone ! ’ |
| 10 | Colin and John wish to thank White 's Electronics for the posters , key-rings and badges they supplied and Denise Rushton , who not only let them have exhibition space free of charge , but also travelled from Leicester to Telford to meet them on the day . |
| 11 | In the Peak District and Northumberland National Parks many people held overnight vigils on appointed summits on the Friday and Saturday nights , while others walked to meet them on the summit . |
| 12 | Then he 'd , he used to try them on the hairs on his arm and if that cut them off that suited him you see |
| 13 | Would n't be very hard to find them on the streets would it ? |
| 14 | You are scared to pass me on the way to the stairs ? ’ he grated . |
| 15 | Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside . |
| 16 | I actually felt they hustled better than us though we managed to catch them on the break quite a bit , ’ said Blaney . |
| 17 | General practitioners are in a position to plan because they have survived many changes , and to fail to reappoint them on the basis of a local health policy ‘ whim ’ conflicts with individual patients ' rights in choosing their own general practitioner . |
| 18 | This was not the moment to lecture him on the facts of hospital life , so I said briefly , ‘ Patients prefer two to one , ’ and asked if he had explained his position to Sister . |
| 19 | But I was anxious to see Mr Rochester , who had been away on business , so I ran out of the quiet house to meet him on the road . |
| 20 | He invited you up the pitch to meet him on the drive . |
| 21 | Charity 's friends were hardly likely to accept him on the strength of a short acquaintance with the nursery slopes at Wengen . |
| 22 | She went into Jack 's office to find him on the phone . |
| 23 | Then I heard him falling and hurried back to find him on the floor . |
| 24 | He sought mandamus directed not to the visitor but to the provost and fellows to reinstate him on the grounds that the provost and fellows had breached the rules of natural justice . |
| 25 | ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’ |
| 26 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 27 | There were photographs of her in the few parts she had been able to play in the years following her marriage ; photographs of her in youth , when her father had begun to launch her on the career which would be interrupted by the coming of Paul . |
| 28 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 29 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 30 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |