Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms of the contracts in this category are rarely negotiated ; instead , they are prepared by or for one party who effectively imposes them on the other party to the contract , saying " If you want to do business with me , you must use my terms " . |
| 2 | I managed to track her down and eventually got her on the telephone . |
| 3 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 4 | As they do this , take a card from the top , deftly place it on the bottom and turn the pack over . |
| 5 | He threw off the blanket , picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire . |
| 6 | Sean recalled : ‘ I suddenly found myself on the same side as the shark and got out of the water as fast as I could . |
| 7 | Supposing , however , the defence has to cope with attackers pushing up just far enough to catch them on the turn and stay onside . |
| 8 | Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted . |
| 9 | The Sweeper reached out a hand and gently put it on the front of Minch 's cage . |
| 10 | Simes how , do n't leave that lying around so put it on the side when you 've finished . |
| 11 | Philby claimed he thoughtfully put them on the right track to divert suspicion from himself . |
| 12 | you suddenly put me on the spot asking me for money . |
| 13 | So enjoy yourself on the day . |
| 14 | and only stuck me on the payroll |
| 15 | The county council has not got the power to ban fox hunting in total it can only ban it on the land which it owns or controls and that 's what that motion seeks to do today . |
| 16 | Charlie laughed , and gently cuffed him on the head . |
| 17 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 18 | We 'd better measure it on the other wall , had n't we ? |
| 19 | Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National . |
| 20 | On the first landing he stopped and stole a glance down the Nightingale Gallery , so engrossed he jumped when Allingham suddenly touched him on the shoulder . |
| 21 | So design one on the same scale as the backcloth . |
| 22 | The merchant 's wife was about to rise but Cranston gently touched her on the shoulder . |
| 23 | After all , Changez was needed in the shop even more urgently now that Anwar had so enfeebled himself on the Gandhi-diet in order to get Changez to Britain in the first place . |
| 24 | The elation he 'd felt the day before at his own breathtaking adventure with the Moi girl now also seemed suddenly shameful to him , and he began to wonder if his exaggerated pride in the deed had n't been the direct cause of the danger in which he and his mother had suddenly found themselves on the plain . |
| 25 | The mess steward came in with Woolley 's piano-accordion and gently laid it on the table . |
| 26 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 27 | And I do n't only try it on the |
| 28 | They could n't cope either and , in desperation , literally dumped it on the doorstep . |
| 29 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 30 | But did n't see it on the telly , only saw it on the . |