Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 2 | He had reached six when he played at a ball down the leg side which hit him on the thigh , with the bat some inches away , and was taken by Dujon . |
| 3 | Laurie , known to the boxing boys as Lol , believes boxing can give ‘ lads with fire in their belly ’ an ambition which keeps them on the straight and narrow . |
| 4 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 5 | In his key he differentiates them on the number of arm spines and suggested that A. grandis could be separated from A. otteri by its ridged proximal ventral arm plates and by a lower number of arm spines . |
| 6 | We talked a lot during those months on the same bench together , and it was his influence which set me on the trade union path . |
| 7 | This action by the creditor set in motion the issuing , by the clerk , of a writ or summons which was formally delivered to an officer of the Chief Bailiff who served it on the defendant at his house . |
| 8 | Of course , this is not all there is to life , and Hildamay finds true contentment by adopting a nine-year-old girl who introduces herself on the tube . |
| 9 | Then , with a girl who loved him on the seat of his bike , he came to a bridge he was never to cross . |
| 10 | Disengaging his bleeding hand , Angel One wiped it on the quivering hide of his latest victim . |
| 11 | Cos it i it should n't just be your preparation should not just be a one-off hour hour and a half what have you on the Sundays when you come along . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When Bruno landed his Radio One job , she followed him south , a move which put her on the road to showbiz fame when she was signed up to host Saturday morning kids ' show , Going Live . |
| 14 | gave it to Tim and Tim holded it in the right he put it on the floor and Ian pricked him . |
| 15 | As she prepares to go for gold at the World Cross Country Championships in the Spanish seaside town of Amorebieta , the South African could not help sadly recalling the drama surrounding the 1988 event which left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown . |
| 16 | On one occasion she threw him on the floor and on another she had deliberately broken his toys . |
| 17 | Fuck Jean remember the day we found her on the floor ? |
| 18 | And one after the other they kissed her on the cheek . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Solid and secret behind a high stone wall it remains a world apart from the crawling traffic which skirts it on the routes out of town . |
| 21 | ‘ When he talks to you he makes you feel as if you are the only person in the entire world , ’ said one woman who met him on the campaign trail . |
| 22 | William Hurt is the medic of the title , an eminent surgeon who finds himself on the other edge of the scalpel when he becomes seriously ill . |
| 23 | I mean when you get there they just get the , the dashboard out and the bloke on the bench he puts everything on the bench |
| 24 | In July 1868 — barely a year after leaving Blomfield 's office — his first novel , ‘ The poor man and the lady ’ , was submitted to Macmillan , a firm which prided itself on the quality of its fiction list . |
| 25 | He brightened up , getting the glow of a man who feels himself on the verge of discharging a disagreeable responsibility . |
| 26 | Yeah oh yes he oh and he was erm being better educated than the majority of people in the Pleck he used to stand outside the Brown Lion to read the newspaper out to them cos they could n't read , and he attended all the weddings , all the funerals and er made the wills out and he almost was the father confessor for the Pleck , and when the old steam tram came off the lines down in the Pleck , when there was a steam train coming through there , he was the man who put it on the rails again . |
| 27 | In age we range from 21-year-old Megan , the younger sister of one of the boatmen , to 67-year-old PG , an indefatigable grandmother who out-hikes everyone on the trip . |
| 28 | The moment you stand in front of an orchestra you hurt yourself on the inertia of the matter . |
| 29 | Within three weeks I had handed in my dissertation , Lorne had assembled the rudimentary equipment , and with more bravado than common sense we found ourselves on the island of Celebes in the South China Sea . |
| 30 | When I 'm fighting my sister he kicks me on the wotsit . ’ |