Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 2 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 3 | Clive Kemp 's suggestion that she join him on a cruise across the Mediterranean had seemed the perfect antidote to a long hard winter , a series of temping jobs which had been more demanding than usual , and the unpleasantness of her break-up with Giles . |
| 4 | I would say in employment yes , or people that want to get employment example would be yeah at M D secretary suddenly shot into the job of producing the company newspaper now I mean somebody like very quickly has to get to grips with this obviously can not give up six months to go and do it so you do it on a half day release basis . |
| 5 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , whenever we make comparisons the figures that we quote are adjusted backwards to ensure that we quote them on a truly comparable basis in all instances . |
| 6 | Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour . |
| 7 | ‘ So he gets everything on a plate and you get nothing but insults and disturbance , and upset because you ca n't help thinking about him for weeks afterwards . |
| 8 | I ca n't imagine any person seriously interested in art in any part of the world not being a subscriber , and I congratulate you on an ever improving publication . |
| 9 | If I had it on a solid floor , but it 's got ta go , do n't forget it 's on a a wooden floor . |
| 10 | He wondered if she hung them on a china hand at night when she went to bed . |
| 11 | What happens if she does it on a weekend , will we just have a key ? |
| 12 | Drew her , as surely as if she had her on a string , unresisting , across the grass . |
| 13 | If you put him on a wyvern there is a temptation to spend half the game flitting about behind the enemy lines or stuck up in the air . |
| 14 | Girls are so much easier , if you put them on a blanket at least all they do is wet it . |
| 15 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 16 | If you did , if you failed them on a regular basis , you would n't be here , right ? |
| 17 | But if you hear her on a if you hear her on a tape recorder she is . |
| 18 | But if you hear her on a if you hear her on a tape recorder she is . |
| 19 | If you want them on a coach , they 'll be I think there 's six up there is there ? |
| 20 | It 's good news if we do it on a fixed fee and say , we have had to enhance some of our rates |
| 21 | which is not a very , but what I 'm saying to Graham is if we do it on a slip road like , cos , cos I 've never done one before , if you , you 'd have to have warning signs if you got a census on the slip coming off |
| 22 | Likewise with friends they 've probably got fewer friends but the friends they have got are very close friends and they know them on a much deeper level . |
| 23 | come Saturday they 'd rearranged the whole ward and they put him on a W R V S air bed , he were in heaven on this bed , I said why the fuck could n't you have done that earlier ? |
| 24 | So I started there and they put me on a month 's trial and I dithered about about this month , whether I was good enough , and they 'd forgotten all about it , by the end of month , trial . |
| 25 | Next , the next person receives a picture of a boy on a bike because the accident was a hit and run accident and they hit someone on a bike . |
| 26 | ‘ Even if they stop you on a busy shopping morning and ask you to sign petitions ? ’ |
| 27 | The shame was too great and he shot himself on an Austrian hillside a few weeks later . |
| 28 | ‘ Anyway , Charlie made it really simple for me , there were two guys at the back who could n't stand up and he laid it on a plate for me . |
| 29 | ‘ And he set us on a new track as far as putting human rights violations in a political context was concerned . |
| 30 | He had taken her to the woods and she sucked his cock and he screwed her on a bed of moss and soft earth . |