Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do , above all , make time to talk to your son or daughter — particularly if they want to sound you out on the subject . |
| 2 | I said now you can shut that up right away , cos I said you know it 's not I said er now if you want us to try to help you out on this you just tell us what you did . |
| 3 | Others want first editions from greed for rarity and will pay almost any price to secure it , and yet others because they want to put one over on other collectors . |
| 4 | He stopped to put it back on again , clamping it on his head and holding it there . |
| 5 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 6 | I want to let you in on a somewhat embarrassing secret , which is now a secret no longer ! |
| 7 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |
| 8 | I had purposely left it unwashed , stuffing it in a suitcase because I might need to spread it out on my bridegroom 's bed in the dark of night . |
| 9 | How much would Donald need to get him back on the road ? |
| 10 | Already LLNL has tried it out on nerve gas surrogates such as dimethyl methyl phosphonate and methyl phosphonic acid , and it seems to work on the crucial C-P bonds . |
| 11 | ‘ It has put me back on the golf course , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Woosnam 's chances look more remote , though he is undoubtedly happier now that Phil Ritson , a South African coach , spotted a technical fault in his swing and has put him back on what he feels are the right lines . |
| 13 | SANDY LYLE 'S victory in the Volvo Masters on Sunday has put him back on course for another Major title . |
| 14 | His injury is now completely cured and , after an early season rocket from Loftus Road manager Gerry Francis , he has put himself back on the trail to match last term 's 24-goal haul . |
| 15 | No you do n't want to tip it out on there cos you get germs darling |
| 16 | Oddly enough , one of Pierre Salinger 's researchers , Linda Mack , while trying to check me out , had talked to another of their staffers , David Mills — the former Newsweek photographer who 'd looked me up on Cyprus in 1987 and sold some pictures to Hurley . |
| 17 | They 'll accept it and put send it through on the nod if we can get his support . |
| 18 | I was looking for then features ed James Brown , who 'd phoned me up on the strength of Issue One of my fanzine This Is This ( which went on to sell in excess of 30 copies to my friends and family ) . |
| 19 | notes you have made to fill you in on the background and performance of the company : |
| 20 | But still United pushed forward , Simpson a free kick went over the cross bar in the twenty third minute and then , just as I was giving a flash to Radio Oxford listeners , United pulled one back on the half hour . |
| 21 | You 'd like to pull one over on him |
| 22 | You 've got to work it out on the basis of ten miles not on the basis of five miles . |
| 23 | He had had to stand her up on their second date . |
| 24 | Simon would you like to lead us through on your document ? |
| 25 | And he used to put them into the oven while it was still hot to bake for him used to pick them up on our way home from school . |
| 26 | Helen had agreed to help us out on this day of days , and she and I rescued the trolley and staggered around , heaving Changez 's junk into the back of the big Rover . |
| 27 | If you get any more you 've got to put one back on the bottom of the pile |
| 28 | The estate agent was only a young man but quite an astute one at that … no-one was going to put one over on him . |
| 29 | It 's forty years old and will set you back five and a half thousand pounds — but for that you can be sure no-one will dare cut you up on the motorway . |
| 30 | Well , now that I 've tracked you down , perhaps you would n't mind letting me in on the key to all this mystery . |