Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 2 | Thus she used a stout stick which was nearly twice her height to walk across the court , or she leaned on the arm of the nearest grandchild or servant . |
| 3 | After reading some of the comments from people who saw the game or who listened on the radio , the above seems to be about as true reporting as you 'd expect from the NOTW . |
| 4 | Then there came it think it was the gearbox or something went on the gar , you know , because I tow a caravan , and the car just would n't pull the caravan , and it was going to cost over a thousand pounds and that like . |
| 5 | ‘ There were 17 players in the team and everyone got on the pitch at some point during the game , ’ he added . |
| 6 | and everyone jumped on the bandwagon , or have they all made up their own ? |
| 7 | So we managed to get the lorry out and I got on the ‘ phone to Bristol University . |
| 8 | Another mountain of water came , pushed me up the beach , and I fell on the wet sand . |
| 9 | I taught her a new move and she practised it on me but she missed and got me in the and I fell on the ground . |
| 10 | Surkov and I sprawled on the twin beds ; Rozanov sat on the floor , his back against the drawn curtains ; Masha , in a comfortable chair , kicked off her high heels and drew her legs under her flower-patterned skirt . |
| 11 | Erm and I thought on the whole , the language was scriptural . |
| 12 | At the last , slightly shorter if I remember , it had been a 3- or a 4-iron for the second shot and I thought back to 1958 and the fourth at Lytham , But this rime the boss and I agreed on the 3-iron . |
| 13 | ‘ For the first month she had to sleep on the settee , and I lay on the floor beside her . |
| 14 | Melinda and I lay on the hot bank , watching the swallows dive . |
| 15 | It was a drizzling spring afternoon and I paused on the steps to button my coat . |
| 16 | Oh mind , it was quite light , it was n't and I saddled on the path and I did n't , I do n't take chances . |
| 17 | Ward 's voice smashed into my consciousness and I slammed on the brakes . |
| 18 | By that time , David and I had some serious talks and I went on the road for the second part of the tour to try to salvage the relationship , which did n't really work . |
| 19 | The starter called us to our marks , we got set , the gun went off and I dawdled on the blocks . |
| 20 | He assures me we both , from what he and I saw on the spot , can go beyond what Jerome himself knows . ’ |
| 21 | This is a serious point , and I sat on the bridge thinking about how to settle it once and for all . |
| 22 | He sat down on the wooden chair and I sat on the bed . |
| 23 | They put the parcels on the table and tidied the room while Frankie and I sat on the sofa and watched . |
| 24 | Well , it was only a bedsitter and Andrea and I sat on the one divan having a smoke and a glass of the fizzy stuff I always brought her , and I said , ‘ What about slipping between the sheets ’ ? ’ |
| 25 | Susan and I sat on the paling hillside as the sky whitened . |
| 26 | Sogono and I sat on the dock beside the cargo — the crafty old Bugi way out to sea — before restoring ourselves on sticks of shrimp satay and bowls of turquoise ice , yellow maize , red beans , and syrup . |
| 27 | We went back up the staircase and I hammered on the door . |
| 28 | I used sign language , and I worked on the assumption that all deaf people can lipread . |
| 29 | Denis and I worked on the show each morning and on our final evening we performed it in ninety degree heat for a deeply moved and even more deeply biased audience of mutual families . |
| 30 | And I worked on the till this morning I said to . |