Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Full-back Steve Mungall wants to join him on the score-sheet after bookmakers Stanley 's gave special odds on his scoring feats . |
| 2 | Bernice went to slap him on the back . |
| 3 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 4 | The three Miss Lovelocks had seated themselves on the window-seat , their silvery heads nodding and trembling , and their glasses , as Ella was not unsurprised to see , quite empty . |
| 5 | She had what was termed a comfortable figure , but her face was thin , her nose sharp and her voice seemed to take its pattern from her features , just as Mick had described her on the way here ; although his Aunt Alice was sharp of nose and of tongue , she was broad in the shoulders and warm in heart , he had said . |
| 6 | Constanze attempted to launch him on a career similar to his father 's — as a child-prodigy pianist — and on returning to Vienna he took composition lessons with Salieri , who proclaimed his ‘ a rare talent ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Simon attempted to pass me on a bend , but he lost the back end of his car and all control . |
| 8 | Mr. Mendez wanted to put him on a coach and send him down there in style , but Russell kept backing off . |
| 9 | Lord Denning sought to avoid it on a number of occasions , the most notable case being Davis v. Johnson [ 1978 ] 2 WLR 182 ( CA ) . |
| 10 | I think the first evidence we have of that , is when Brocklehurst has placed her on the stool and publicly humiliated her . |
| 11 | Mark Kiff went to see him on the day he took his test . |
| 12 | When Michele had settled her on the swing-seat , her legs up , her back against one padded arm , he sat down on a bench opposite and , eyes narrowed against the sun , invited , ‘ Go ahead . ’ |
| 13 | She had brought her son over from South Africa and while staying in Bristol had seen me on the television screen . |
| 14 | Jim Richards describes spotting him on the terrace of Shepheard 's Hotel , Cairo . |
| 15 | Hamilton elected to station himself on the Queen Elizabeth , de Robeck 's flagship . |
| 16 | In that minute Troy had kissed her on the lips . |
| 17 | They had left their cabins early to enjoy the fresh morning breeze , and Joseph had perched himself on a coil of rope beside Chuck at the rail to finish his reading . |
| 18 | Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level . |
| 19 | Lyall , who like the 42-year-old McGiven had his career cut short by injury at West Ham , groomed McGiven in the way that Ron Greenwood had groomed him on the coaching ladder . |
| 20 | Sorge had asked him on the way out of Washington . |
| 21 | God had to do something on the cross , in Christ , in order that his love which he has for us as sinners might become forgiveness for us in reality . |
| 22 | Although karate developed in Japan , that country has never won a team world championship , whereas Great Britain has won it on no less than four occasions — a record unmatched in the history of karate . |
| 23 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 24 | More traumatic still , James Prior , with the greatest reluctance , was forced to move from Employment to the exile of Northern Ireland , even though Mrs Thatcher had to keep him on the Cabinet 's main economic forum , the E Committee . |
| 25 | Susan trying to kiss me on the arse right and I fucking farted ! |
| 26 | Wycliffe had perched himself on a stool between Hilda , who was seated at her desk , and Ralph , who sat on a seat like a chapel pew . |
| 27 | He had n't been in the lodge since Helena Naulls had left it on the death of her husband . |
| 28 | Mandy 's put them on a nice new sheet ai n't ya ? |
| 29 | Buckmaster had hired him on the spot . |
| 30 | Six months ago Teresa Leinin had to put them on a plane to the United States after the High Court ordered they must be sent back to their American father . |