Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Please do n't throw me on the floor ! |
| 2 | The smaller bits we 'd look at for a time and then he 'd throw them on the fire . |
| 3 | ‘ Why did they build them on the top of hills ? ’ she asked Christopher . |
| 4 | But you must not build them on the graveyard . |
| 5 | You see I would like to see people at the end of this programme to have some idea , not just of fancy figures in the air , but of practical effects that will affect them on the ground . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you want me on the search , sir ? ’ |
| 7 | Well , if you do n't want them on , that 's the whole problems of obviously saying , erm , in fact , we do n't , if we do n't want them on a disk at all , we do n't have to have them . |
| 8 | Well you 'd you 'd think they would n't want them on the road cos if they had an accident the people would get killed , they 'd just |
| 9 | If you would pardon me on the sheet , it 's a shame Mr 's not here , because that was his decision , because of the imposed cut in stationery from last year , we ran out of it |
| 10 | Fortunately they did n't knock me on the head or anything which they could have done , could n't they ? |
| 11 | He still treated Edward coolly , stating with conviction that he had his orders direct from London and saw no need to go over them in detail , and no possibility that he would modify them on the say-so of a junior officer he did not know . |
| 12 | We can congratulate ourselves on the forecasts which led to fixing fees at the right levels , but commercial criteria are not the only means of judging the fortunes of professional institutes . |
| 13 | And he 'd clip them on the clip them on the rope and take 'em to the pit bottom . |
| 14 | Well , perhaps we can count them on the fingers of one hand . |
| 15 | You could almost count them on the fingers of two |
| 16 | I would n't trust me on the golf club scene . |
| 17 | He will photograph me on the horse and I will have it to keep . |
| 18 | You can catch me on the phone . |
| 19 | We could hang them on the walls . |
| 20 | If you have any other items you wish to raise at the meeting , please advise me beforehand so that I may include them on the agenda . |
| 21 | Electoral law does not forbid him from describing himself as Conservative but his rival , Mr Gerry Malone , will describe himself on the ballot paper as The Conservative Party Candidate . |
| 22 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that only this morning we were trying to persuade poor old Eddy to go off and enjoy himself on a facilities trip to the Persian Gulf … |
| 23 | There you will meet a man who will brief you on the details of when and where the operation will take place . |
| 24 | So as I say I think it 'll , I think it 'll , it 'll run okay and behave itself on the assumption you can get some people to fill it in so er |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Unix System Labs , which has a good server story but may lack something on the desktop end like applications , is reportedly trying to get Quorum interested in Destiny . |
| 26 | I thought we could hang something on the fact that one of the most enduring sexual icons of the age was in fact what today would be called — uh — big . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ They 'll let you know everything on the ward , ’ she replied with a smile . |
| 28 | We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen . |
| 29 | When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back . |
| 30 | ‘ My office sought to arrange an interview with the Secretary of State for Employment so I could brief her on the situation . |