Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were knocked back on the bloody floor . |
| 2 | Well I was brought up on the story . |
| 3 | I was put back on the diet designed to ‘ build me up ’ . |
| 4 | I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery . |
| 5 | I was shoved down on the bed , the soldier left and the slattern bustled in with a small manchet loaf and a goblet of wine . |
| 6 | That 's why you 're tied up on the floor and I 'm aiming a gun at you . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Aye , Ah 'm booked out on the flight to Lima in the mornin' . ’ |
| 8 | We did n't find you till late , and you were curled up on the landing , outside the kitchen door . |
| 9 | She 's out enjoying a Saturday shopping trip — there are people coming to dinner tonight , and when she 's stocked up on the basic necessities , she 'll choose some extra delights from the delicatessen . |
| 10 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 11 | While the investigation was being carried out she was pushed up on the X-ray table with sufficient force to rip the intravenous infusion from an already bruised and swollen arm . |
| 12 | She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience with sick children . |
| 13 | She was held down on the bed whilst a variety of sexual acts were performed on her . |
| 14 | Knowing what I know now , I imagined she was stretched out on the marital bed finishing the job . |
| 15 | Schoolgirl Camilla Rigg , for instance , was up from Cambridge on a shopping trip to London when she was signed up on the spot . |
| 16 | We just got here , and there you was stretched out on the floor . |
| 17 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 18 | We were centred up on the gap in the reef : this must be it ! |
| 19 | I remember once we was called out on the actual called out for actual sighting of s there was supposed to have been some activity over er Bentley so we was all called out and the assembly point was at Tolbertstead 's works in Green Lane and we assembled er in the , at Tolberstead 's and then we was sent out as search groups er from there right across Bentley . |
| 20 | They are hemmed in on the east by the Grand Junction Canal which still flourishes on the north by the straight alignment of the shortened Oxford Canal on the west by the former Great Central Railway line constructed in 1896 and on the south by the embankment of the old Daventry to Leamington railway . |
| 21 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 22 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 23 | Then , with Leeds still hopeful of prising an away goal to take back to Elland Road , they were caught out on the break with Andreas Buch beating Lukic with an angled shot into a corner eight minutes from time . |
| 24 | There was other Ramseys too , that lived further up the glen but they were taken round on the road way . |
| 25 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 26 | First , on the rateable value of the property , which was a value based on an assessment of what the property could earn if it were let out on the open market . |
| 27 | Once again the Macintosh has the upper hand with its graphics capability but for much of this market WYSIWYG is irrelevant , the trained operator ‘ knows ’ what 's going to happen to the text when it is run out on the page printer or phototypesetter . |
| 28 | Nothing is more frustrating than designing a pattern and taking hours to get it right only to find that , when it is knitted up on the machine , the whole thing is either squashed almost flat , or stretched lengthways so as to be almost unrecognisable as the original design , which can happen on some design systems . |
| 29 | Most commonly it is carried out on the open bench or in a laminar flow sterile cabinet . |
| 30 | It 's the result of a big process by individual departments , erm , it is set out on the basis of departments priorities . |