Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day one of the German officers stationed in Fontanellato , an Oberleutnant Bauer , called on me and asked if I could give him Italian lessons . |
| 2 | She responded , but almost as if I was n't there , so I did a few gestures in front of her face — Signalman Flagging Down Runaway Express , sort of thing — and she briefly focused on me and laughed and then went back into her secret nuptial sett . |
| 3 | Joyce 's material supposedly unfolds in the dreaming mind of a Dublin publican ; the story O'Brien 's narrator tells concerns a publican who operates his imagination altogether more systematically , locking up his fictional characters ‘ so that he can keep an eye on them and see that there is no boozing ’ ( O'Brien 1939 and 1975 : 35 ) . |
| 4 | We were ready to take a breath test on you and determine if you stank as bad as you ‘ write ’ . |
| 5 | Having climbed the bank he looked down on her and smiled as he said , ‘ I did n't recognise you in civvies . |
| 6 | As the Scot pushed his way past me I grabbed him , put an arm-lock on him and suggested that he had a drink elsewhere . |
| 7 | I have never eaten brawn — no doubt I should do so — so can not comment on it except to say that it is made from the pig 's head which is simmered with herbs and spices ; the resulting meat is set in the naturally produced aspic . |
| 8 | And so when you 're pushing pressing on that squashing it and making it flow into sheets the pulling on it and seeing whether it will stretch or whether it . |
| 9 | She chewed on it and thought that it could n't possibly be as rubbery as it seemed . |
| 10 | Erm Right , I 'll put the stamp on it and go and post |
| 11 | Get a few things on it and check that it works . |