Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I flung it on the open ledger on the table . |
| 2 | I laid her on the conc you know , like the , the step out |
| 3 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
| 4 | Folding the poem , I laid it on the table . |
| 5 | I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back . |
| 6 | I met her on a colectivo here in the capital , standing face to face in the rush-hour crowds . |
| 7 | I 've got a potential describing Inverness I met her on the train the other day , a friend of my , he says |
| 8 | He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago . |
| 9 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 10 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 11 | One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent . |
| 12 | When I met you on the road to Hay last night , I almost thought you had put a spell on my horse ! |
| 13 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
| 14 | ‘ I passed it on the way here from Bordeaux . |
| 15 | I clapped him on the back . |
| 16 | ‘ I got you on the bed and just lost my head completely . |
| 17 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 18 | Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I ! |
| 19 | Yeah and that 's another thing I found I had a letter from the Social Security saying would you please send your order book back you 're not entitled to any more money , your sickness benefit 's run out , I thought it ca n't have , I do n't go back until the twenty fifth of March , phones up for the appointment I got it on the fifth of March , nine days ago |
| 20 | That was , I got it on the coach quite a nice thing |
| 21 | ‘ I posed her on the sofa . |
| 22 | Then I tried it on the pasture , but that was a bit rough , so I thought I would ride it down the new road through the iron gate leading out of my land . |
| 23 | In Hamburg and elsewhere I talked to several former U-boat captains and instead of the brash abrasive characters I had expected , I found them on the whole to be men of sensibility and humour . |
| 24 | ‘ Sorry , Mrs Scamp , but I found 'em on the floor in the back of the cab . ’ |
| 25 | Would you believe I found it on a stall in the flea market only last week ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I found it on the barbed wire . |
| 27 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 28 | I think I caught her on the hop , for she was wearing trousers and sandals and … no , I can not remember what else … . |
| 29 | Yes , I think I caught her on the hop . |
| 30 | I caught it on a rack in the |