Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've got to go and ask for them to take you on the erm |
| 2 | I kept waiting in dread for someone to tap you on the shoulder and say , ‘ By the way , you know Damian is chairman of Flint Investments International ! ’ ’ |
| 3 | In return she showed them the Daimler and invited forty of them to visit her on the Dockers ' yacht , Shemara , where pink champagne was served amid costly fitments which were often detailed in the newspapers . |
| 4 | The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss . |
| 5 | I know it sounds mad but I suddenly had an image of them doing it on the carpet in the office like a couple of dogs . ’ |
| 6 | It 's a good idea of yours putting me on the floor Rocket . |
| 7 | Give me my morning 's gentle stroll down to the corner paper shop , my afternoon 's lazy snooker match at the village club with a glass of you know what on the side-table , and my evening 's friendly ( is there any such thing ? ) solo or bridge games . |
| 8 | It 's incredibly kind of you to meet us on the offchance . |
| 9 | Well you see , what Freud had to explain here was how he could have had such a long dream when the dreamer reported that he woke up more or less instantly from the stimulus of something hitting him on the back of the neck . |
| 10 | Taken aback by her anger and foreseeing the likelihood of her leaving him on the strength of it , Jeremy switches tactics to conciliation . |
| 11 | She was aware of him settling himself on the floor in the corner by the bench , then stiffened when he picked up one of her finished pieces . |
| 12 | When the bills come in you pay them on the budget account cheque book and do n't have to worry whether the money is there or not . |
| 13 | Fat women and bald-headed men standing in the doorways of tiny shops make jokes to him which he ca n't quite understand , and shout ribaldries to each other about him clapping him on the shoulder to indicate they 're not serious , and cutting slices of cheese and sausage for him to try . |
| 14 | ‘ And Spain was a cosy hideaway for our export villains ; ergo , her boyfriend was waiting for her to join him on the Costa del Crook . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Older than you , married , female : it was up to me to keep us on the straight and narrow . |
| 16 | What is the role of the to which distinguishes them on the level of the sign ? |
| 17 | No , she to she told me on the phone . |
| 18 | ‘ … into the last furlong , and the Guppy looks beaten , Breakdancer takes up the running with Prince Charming on the stand side — it looks to be between these two — but now Shine On 's absolutely flying on the outside , a terrific challenge , the three locked together , Breakdancer and Shine On stride for stride , at the line it 's very close but I think it 's shine On who gets it on the nod . |
| 19 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) At or after the preliminary appointment if there be one , the arbitrator shall fix a date for the dispute to be heard ( unless the parties consent to his deciding it on the statements and documents submitted to him — an unusual course not usually acceptable to the parties or the district judge ) and he shall give such directions regarding the steps to be taken before and at the hearing as may appear to him to be necessary or desirable . |
| 21 | I wo n't be party to your bitching yourself on the sly . |
| 22 | People came up to us to congratulate us on the reading . |
| 23 | They drank their coffee and he took both cups and leaned across her to put them on the settle . |