Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb -s] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just when you think you 've got it straight , along comes the Fool with his pig 's bladder and whops you on the nose . |
| 2 | He brings the teddy bear and sits it on the windowsill where it can watch us . |
| 3 | The leader then calls for items , and the first person from one of the teams brings the article and places it on the chair . |
| 4 | And he gets the spade and hits her on the head with it and he goes , I never want to talk to you again and he kicks her in the head . |
| 5 | The male then extrudes a packet of sperm from the genital opening beneath his thorax and deposits it on the ground . |
| 6 | This corkscrews the opponent backwards over his supporting leg and dumps him on the mat . |
| 7 | In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow . |
| 8 | The literary text may negotiate with its containment ( as Shakespeare 's do ) , but its contemporary subversive force has been compromised by the political dominance of state power which excludes it from the centre and places it on the margins of socially sanctioned institutions . |
| 9 | So she brings in a whole candelabra and balances it on the floor . |
| 10 | The night 's work over , Young drives to the Express 's offices , captions his film and leaves it on the picture desk . |
| 11 | Often the wonderful natural natural story-teller in Walker breaks through the marshmallow and has us on the edge of the chair , but finally and lamentably this is a failure . |
| 12 | Then she stuffs the letter back in the envelope and chucks it on the side . |
| 13 | Andy lifts a log from the hearth and puts it on the fire , hitting the other logs with it and making them spark and blaze . |