Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | This baffled the doctors still further and they concluded that ‘ Social attitudes are decidedly curious on the other side of the Atlantic : prohibition is a state institution but people drink their fill behind closed shutters ; everyone prides himself on his virtue but women wear pessaries against conception . ’ |
| 2 | That was a nice picture — Marie liked it I think , cos she did n't mind me sticking it on the wall . |
| 3 | ‘ Let me congratulate you on your powers of recovery . |
| 4 | ‘ My dear friend , if you will allow me to call you that , ’ he cried , shaking both my hands , ‘ let me congratulate you on your fortune ! |
| 5 | No-one seeing her on the move , rushing headlong through drear fuming tunnels , would really note the missing arms and absent tail , the sealed face , the scarlet sash . |
| 6 | The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss . |
| 7 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |
| 8 | Keith Lascelles took my hand , squeezing it reassuringly as he led me across the stage , up the wide stairway dividing the orchestra , and left me to arrange myself on the rostrum . |
| 9 | Everyone pats themselves on the back and goes home . ’ |
| 10 | Let me update you on my social security saga . |
| 11 | Rose 's coming to the house had smoothed their lives and allowed them to concentrate everything on school and study , which , above all , they saw as a way out of the house and into a life of their own . |
| 12 | When I caught up , Ann was still obviously very distressed and I asked what on earth was wrong . |
| 13 | ‘ I waylaid him on his arrival . |
| 14 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 15 | The process in this case did not reach its logical conclusion because Mr. Thorpe — I commend him on his ingenuity , a quality with which the nation knows he is amply endowed — found a way to secure the necessary care . |
| 16 | As I wiped them on my pinafore Mr Vulcan asked what was wrong with me . |
| 17 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 18 | Mind , when I read their story on erm I read them on Thursday afternoon and I said , right we better practise for nursery |
| 19 | I laid her on the conc you know , like the , the step out |
| 20 | I laid it on them over there in Washington — I mean , but hard . |
| 21 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
| 22 | Folding the poem , I laid it on the table . |
| 23 | I laid it on soil ; the shoulders managed |
| 24 | I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back . |
| 25 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 26 | At the end of the day I thought it looked very attractive , but whether it will catch the eye of a customer when I display it on the craft stall is another matter . |
| 27 | I met her on a colectivo here in the capital , standing face to face in the rush-hour crowds . |
| 28 | I met her on my way to Weatherbury , but I did n't know then who she was . ’ |
| 29 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
| 30 | I met him on my last visit to Glasgow recently : a jolly , likeable man today . |