Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] 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 one on the sh on the telephone
17 and I got one on the C's .
18 I got you on the bed and just lost my head completely .
19 " 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 .
20 Oh I got it on the bloody Saturday did n't I !
21 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
22 That was , I got it on the coach quite a nice thing
23 I posed her on the sofa .
24 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 .
25 I found myself on a level with the whole of the French people ; my new companions … were miners , navvies , workers in metal and wood .
26 IN FEBRUARY 1985 I found myself on a flight scheduled for the Yemen Arab Republic , now called Yemen since its amalgamation with the People 's Democratic Republic of Yemen in May 1990 .
27 It was definitely time to say farewell and stepping down from the canal at that point I found myself on the very street of my son 's house .
28 Then it stopped and I found myself on the side opposite to her .
29 IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere .
30 Taking a couple of rights , I found myself on the ramp of lower Eighth Avenue — a medium-poor people 's district , I assumed .
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