Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [vb base] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is more difficult to keep within the powers they confer , to change them or interpret them on a pragmatic basis .
2 Arrest me and put me on a diet fast !
3 This was a big step for me and put me on the road to caddying top tournaments at a very young age .
4 He took it from me and put it on the mantelpiece .
5 And dried them and put them on the rack again .
6 I also heard that a party of girls from Bishop 's Home orphanage school in Rangoon had got stranded at Katha and I was able to send a telegram to Jack Cardew of the Burma Railways asking him to extricate them and get them on a train to Myitkyina .
7 So they are , in a sense ( to be disputed on other grounds in a later chapter ) , but they are also molecules , and it is possible for human chemists to purify them , bottle them and store them on a shelf .
8 Method 2 : Choose a record or tape of a piece of music which pleases you and put it on the turntable or in the cassette player .
9 A few of his fellow citizens would wait until the train was about to depart , nobble him and throw him on the train , slip the guards a few dollars and wave goodbye .
10 He took Duncan 's suitcase from him and put it on the back seat .
11 He took her glass from her and set it on the top of the bookshelves , then he said softly , ‘ You look somehow — different . ’
12 Their taunts must have sickened her , so this ai n't the time to start mauling — even though I 've got a bulge in my pants like a bunch of bananas and I want to rip that nightdress of her and throw her on the bed .
13 I washed and sterilised it and put it on the hall table , beside the front door .
14 We have already stressed at the end of Chapter 6 how important it is to record your daily weight and also to chart it and plot it on a monthly graph .
15 After it was closed and put up for sale eighteen months ago they did their utmost to buy it and run it on a community basis .
16 ‘ Tell me , ’ said Ali , ‘ why do they bring their filth before us and spread it on the ground like raiment ? ’
17 So we used to take a big old transistor with us and put it on the back shelf .
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