Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned it up as hot as it would go and put them in on a tray . |
| 2 | You ca n't expect her to get them in on a student 's grant . ’ |
| 3 | Or maybe a a lot in a sack wheel them down on a wheelbarrow or something . |
| 4 | These days people bring hamsters and terrapins and rabbits and dogs , but nobody quite has the nerve to pin them down on a slab and cut their throats . |
| 5 | In the living room she picked up a couple of wine glasses from the floor and set them down on a coffee table . |
| 6 | This is a postal competition so , when you think you 've found the right answers , jot them down on a postcard along with your name , address and daytime phone number and send it to Guitarist . |
| 7 | What I do is , I roll a towel up and that , and put , take them down on t' beach , you know , cos I could put my purse in and that . |
| 8 | As Floy and Snodgrass watched in silence , the Elms stretched out their hard , lichen-crusted branches and brought them down on the prisoner 's shoulders and thighs , at the place where the skin had started to tear . |
| 9 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 10 | She sat them down on the sofa . |
| 11 | But long before he reaches him he recognizes him — from the way he 's sitting , sprawled back in an armchair with his feet on a coffee-table , reading an ancient Amazing Science Fiction ; from his spectacles and rumpled hair ; from the fact that he 's taken his shoes and socks off to cool his feet , and tossed them down on the coffee-table ; from the way he does n't look up , even as Howard comes right up to him , goggling head leading the way , unable to believe his eyes . |
| 12 | She waited until the first few bars of the signature tune started to play , then unclipped her headphones and set them down on the desk with a sharp clatter before starting to gather up the stack of notes . |
| 13 | And if you had paper plates people put them down on the floor , inevitably , somebody got drunk and put their plate on the floor , they were probably thinking about something else , and then the beet juice or the goo or whatever , soaked through the paper plate and onto the carpet and you never , never got it out . |
| 14 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 15 | Then in order to compare your expenditure against likely income , jot them down on the Budget Planner ( see pages 120–25 ) . |
| 16 | Picking up the drinks , she crossed the room and set them down on the trestle , careful to keep her face turned away from the window . |
| 17 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 18 | Instead , it plonks them down on the gravel path and lets them knock about a bit . |
| 19 | I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table . |
| 20 | He flicked through them , then threw them down on the table . |
| 21 | The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench . |
| 22 | I was drawn lower and lower ; a wall of flesh surrounded me and hemmed me in on every side , yet the pressure was not painful and the flesh easily gave way like soft india-rubber before my slightest movement . |
| 23 | De Burgh hems me in on every side but where the sea is , save only Chester , where I thank God for Earl Ranulf . |
| 24 | ‘ They let me in on the secret quite early — then people started joking about it . |
| 25 | So let me in on the secret . |
| 26 | People keep mentioning this Peter Barnes guy , could someone please let me in on the joke . |
| 27 | Well , now that I 've tracked you down , perhaps you would n't mind letting me in on the key to all this mystery . |
| 28 | ‘ All you have to do , Sorrel dear , is fill me in on the gossip about Simon Cawthorne . |
| 29 | He made the mistake of letting me in on the ground floor when he was offering a Pissarro . |
| 30 | One minute to go and the Director wishes everyone down on the floor good luck , and in time-honoured tradition Verity Lambert leans forward and wishes the Director good luck . |