Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 |
| 32 | That was , I got it on the coach quite a nice thing |
| 33 | ‘ I posed her on the sofa . |
| 34 | Then I tried it on the pasture , but that was a bit rough , so I thought I would ride it down the new road through the iron gate leading out of my land . |
| 35 | ‘ I found myself on a level with the whole of the French people ; my new companions … were miners , navvies , workers in metal and wood . |
| 36 | IN FEBRUARY 1985 I found myself on a flight scheduled for the Yemen Arab Republic , now called Yemen since its amalgamation with the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen in May 1990 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her . |
| 39 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 40 | Taking a couple of rights , I found myself on the ramp of lower Eighth Avenue — a medium-poor people 's district , I assumed . |
| 41 | But I fancy that if I found myself on the field of Waterloo with a foot missing , or in a dentist 's chair without benefit of anaesthetic — a future form of laudanum — or faced with a work-situation in which my family were slowly being starved and degraded , then my conclusions might reasonably be the same . ) |
| 42 | In Hamburg and elsewhere I talked to several former U-boat captains and instead of the brash abrasive characters I had expected , I found them on the whole to be men of sensibility and humour . |
| 43 | ‘ Sorry , Mrs Scamp , but I found 'em on the floor in the back of the cab . ’ |
| 44 | Would you believe I found it on a stall in the flea market only last week ? ’ |
| 45 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 46 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 47 | ‘ I think I caught everyone on the wrong foot at Ayresome Park when I increased my shareholding to 48 per cent earlier in the season . ’ |
| 48 | I think I caught her on the hop , for she was wearing trousers and sandals and … no , I can not remember what else … . |
| 49 | Yes , I think I caught her on the hop . |
| 50 | I caught it on a rack in the |
| 51 | I caught it on a door handle |
| 52 | No but I 'll , if I say it on every tape she might get the hint . |
| 53 | I 've already completed mine : my son and I disturbed one on the main path leading up to The Merrick , in Galloway , and ranger Fred Gordon and I saw a very angry one on the path in Glen Cairn in the Cairngorms . |
| 54 | Under Lily Laverock 's auspices , she came to Vancouver on an annual concert tour , and when Marjorie Agnew and I approached her on the matter she was delighted to become a sponsor . |
| 55 | I phoned her on the fourth night to say goodnight to her that was all . |
| 56 | I seen it on the News — |
| 57 | No I want another half because I want something on the other one . |
| 58 | I want it on the biting edge between ‘ is n't it hysterically funny ? ’ and ‘ is n't it absolutely unbearably awful ? ’ it 's the working class ploy , or disabled ploy , that you joke about adversity . |
| 59 | I thought I want it on the C Ds . |
| 60 | ‘ Well , here we are , ’ Andy says , sitting forward and slapping his hands on his knees , then taking the J when I tap him on the elbow . |