Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [pron] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't give you one on the end but I bought |
| 2 | The one thing about advertising er Patrick is that we tell them everything on the phone . |
| 3 | In advertising you tell them everything on the phone |
| 4 | Perhaps illogically , if there is to be any ‘ indulging in personalities ’ , voters prefer to do it themselves on the doorstep rather than to have it done for them . |
| 5 | Besides , I thought it might sting you into giving me something on the Mallenders . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 7 | I just gave him something on the side . |
| 8 | He had burned it himself on the fire he had made against the fruit-garden wall and it might be that no copies of it existed , yet in his mind 's eye it recreated itself , the child for ever stilled , its face a waxen mask , the old doctor haggard with sorrow and lack of sleep , the mirror no breath had misted held in his hand , the parents in each other 's arms . |