Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
| 2 | But erm when we , by the time we got into Hull I heard it on the radio what had happened and we went to the toy fair and then we came back and there was er you could see all the ambulances and everything still there . |
| 3 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 4 | He had reached six when he played at a ball down the leg side which hit him on the thigh , with the bat some inches away , and was taken by Dujon . |
| 5 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 6 | I see you later than , oh where 's the car keys I had them on the . |
| 7 | This action by the creditor set in motion the issuing , by the clerk , of a writ or summons which was formally delivered to an officer of the Chief Bailiff who served it on the defendant at his house . |
| 8 | Then , with a girl who loved him on the seat of his bike , he came to a bridge he was never to cross . |
| 9 | Disengaging his bleeding hand , Angel One wiped it on the quivering hide of his latest victim . |
| 10 | It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house . |
| 11 | When Bruno landed his Radio One job , she followed him south , a move which put her on the road to showbiz fame when she was signed up to host Saturday morning kids ' show , Going Live . |
| 12 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 13 | gave it to Tim and Tim holded it in the right he put it on the floor and Ian pricked him . |
| 14 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 15 | As she prepares to go for gold at the World Cross Country Championships in the Spanish seaside town of Amorebieta , the South African could not help sadly recalling the drama surrounding the 1988 event which left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 16 | Tears jumped into Evelyn 's eyes and she started to hurry in the direction of the girls ' barracks , ignoring the missiles which caught her on the back and arms or dropped uselessly on either side . |
| 17 | On one occasion she threw him on the floor and on another she had deliberately broken his toys . |
| 18 | Fuck Jean remember the day we found her on the floor ? |
| 19 | And one after the other they kissed her on the cheek . |
| 20 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 21 | ‘ When he talks to you he makes you feel as if you are the only person in the entire world , ’ said one woman who met him on the campaign trail . |
| 22 | ‘ Mr Fernie , Detective-Constable Edwards who interviewed you on the morning after Mrs Connon was killed , said in his very comprehensive report that you had noticed the police arrive the previous night . |
| 23 | Brackley itself produced rather few people who impressed themselves on the historical record . |
| 24 | The historical development of associations concerned with the employment relationship during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries may be explained as a negative response on the part of employers to accommodate the external challenges which confronted them on the basis of three broad sets of factors . |
| 25 | In July 1868 — barely a year after leaving Blomfield 's office — his first novel , ‘ The poor man and the lady ’ , was submitted to Macmillan , a firm which prided itself on the quality of its fiction list . |
| 26 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |
| 27 | She was taking off her hat and coat as she spoke ; then going over to her aunt , she bent down and kissed her on the cheek , and followed this with the same salutation for her uncle ; and in response he patted her on the shoulder . |
| 28 | In reaching his decision he founded himself on the only reported case as far as we know that has been decided under this provision ; it is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Brown v Liverpool Corporation [ 1969 ] 3 AER 1345 . |
| 29 | And I was only doing up here but er , that 's good enough , sort of thing I kissed her on the lips a couple |
| 30 | I can not trace any acknowledgment from you of the memorandum I sent you on the twelfth of this month , regarding your talents and the scope for them in this office . |