Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] on the [noun sg] " 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 | You are scared to pass me on the way to the stairs ? ’ he grated . |
| 13 | Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside . |
| 14 | I actually felt they hustled better than us though we managed to catch them on the break quite a bit , ’ said Blaney . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He invited you up the pitch to meet him on the drive . |
| 18 | Charity 's friends were hardly likely to accept him on the strength of a short acquaintance with the nursery slopes at Wengen . |
| 19 | She went into Jack 's office to find him on the phone . |
| 20 | Then I heard him falling and hurried back to find him on the floor . |
| 21 | ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | What she would give to punch him on the nose , and flatten once and for all his insulting , devilish assumptions . |
| 27 | I also advised him that if he were not to accept it on the spot he should defer any decision on it until after he had concluded his coincidental visit to the Province today . |
| 28 | I was going to write it on the board for you |
| 29 | Suddenly he 'd arch his back like a twig in a furnace , scraping his stockinged feet for purchase , then take his head in both hands and try to smash it on the floor , only prevented by the cushions . |
| 30 | To attack a U-boat an aircraft had first to sight it on the surface . |