Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He threw off the blanket , picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire . |
| 2 | Erm but they er have only done it on a localized basis . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The mess steward came in with Woolley 's piano-accordion and gently laid it on the table . |
| 6 | Eliot had apparently declined it on the plea that it was Lent . |
| 7 | I have just heard it on the news . ’ |
| 8 | Well he 's probably just caught him on the back of on the back of the calf but er I thought it was as you say I thought it was a nice sharp incisive tackle . |
| 9 | ‘ Bailey 's already briefed him on the telephone but he wo n't know you 're in charge of the operation until he gets here . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's all very well , but Chamberlain 's only just told us on the wireless that the war 's begun . ’ |
| 11 | He had already told me on the Friday at the training session , and in front of about 20 of the lads , that I was n't in the team . |
| 12 | The non-aligned nations , meeting in Delhi , have just dragged it on the stage by backing an Argentine call for the withdrawal of all nuclear weapons from the Falklands . |
| 13 | We 've already complimented you on the general pass rate . ’ |
| 14 | He can console himself with a winter passage booked to Australia , and the knowledge that his talent and determined character have finally set him on a rightful path to the pinnacle of the game . |
| 15 | So I wo n't go through the rest of it , it 's a long and er it 's just brought us on the same sort of thing , but what it proves is that we are getting somewhere and that is what I thought was rather important news , which I want to do . |
| 16 | I do n't give two farts for yours , he said , but you have just dumped mine on a motorway layby . |
| 17 | I think the other thing also , I found it a disadvantage actually having it on the table , I think if I 'd just left it on the like that |
| 18 | ‘ You 've already taken me on a tour of Rome . |
| 19 | Have you ever caught anybody on the roofs . |
| 20 | Have you ever done it on a toboggan ? |
| 21 | Do you want to borrow , well it 's on two tapes , well I 've still got it on the tapes if you want it , it 's quite a good quite a good film |
| 22 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 23 | Emily always repeated this warning , although she was the only one who had ever cut herself on the bacon-slicer . |
| 24 | ‘ Have n't I always kept you on the inside of them ? ’ |
| 25 | The Provisional IRA have also used it on a few occasions . |
| 26 | right with an extra window , whatever about the money , like Mrs what 's her name , so you 've nearly closed her on the conservatory you do all the paper , your order close form on the conservatory and you say to her , right , cos you 're working your sums out , do you want me to include the extra window for two hundred pounds ? |
| 27 | He 'd probably achieved it on a pleasant little trip to the Bahamas . |
| 28 | Charles now placed himself on a par with Lothar and Louis the German ( whose teenage sons had recently begun to play an active political role themselves ) . |
| 29 | The Committee had simply patted them on the back like spoilt children and told them , ‘ Now just send your children back to school . ’ |
| 30 | The only reason I was here was because Joyce , who was to spend the first two days at the Centre with me , had continuously reminded me on the journey that the decision to go to Bristol had been mine and mine alone . |