Example sentences of "on [pron] [noun] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , she particularly likes to lie on my lap when I 'm wearing it , ’ said Sophia , examining the skirt of the dress . |
| 2 | As Sabra , a woman in her forties , told me ‘ If I go out I usually do have my Dupatta round me , but at work I ca n't wear it in case it gets caught up in the machines , so I just wear a scarf on my head when I leave the house — something is needed to save one 's Izzat ’ . |
| 3 | The accused , who pleaded guilty , said , ‘ I felt the devil and his horns on my head when I plunged the knife through his heart . ’ |
| 4 | You 're on my territory when you pick up the phone . |
| 5 | I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it |
| 6 | I was on my way when you come up . ’ |
| 7 | My father walked out on my mother when I was seven , so the English influence came out on top from then on . ’ |
| 8 | You 're always on my mind when we 're apart — |
| 9 | Well , sex was the last thing on my mind when I got out . |
| 10 | There is a blouse of midnight blue with a diamond flower that sat on my breast when I wore it . |
| 11 | They sprayed cold water on my dog when it was snowing and all her fur froze . |
| 12 | I still have to wear gaffer tape on my hands when we 're on tour because getting the bass to work with magnetic pickups means using steel strings . |
| 13 | I was congratulating myself on my fitness when I passed a middle-aged German couple climbing up — with a good deal more spring in their steps than me . |
| 14 | N.B. Kwik-fit Child Safety Centres will supply and fit a child seat for £28.50 and give a full refund on its return when it has been outgrown . |
| 15 | So effectively Robert Harris and Noel Timms ( ‘ Backs against the wall ’ , 15 April ) turn Parkinson 's Law on its head when they say that in residential care ‘ time expands in accordance with the potentially limitless tasks which exist ’ . |
| 16 | But their anti-liberalism turned on its head when they were asked if shoplifting was a serious crime . |
| 17 | Er so any clarification you can give about er er Mr er with Mr Potter 's comment that we would have to wait and see each one on its circumstances when we talking earlier about the industrial change of use makes me twitch , because it 's lack of precision which all of us are trying to eliminate as much as we can in this process . |
| 18 | One of the speakers was suggesting that a proposal should be judged on its merits when it comes forward for approval to the registering authority and that if it does n't fit into the set pattern , that should n't necessarily debar it . |
| 19 | Central government provides information on its activities when it publishes its various expenditure statements . |
| 20 | Now there was her bantam hen to visit that tame favourite who sat on her head when she walked into the drawing room , the admiration of all , whose food she sometimes nibbled at . |
| 21 | As Fabia saw it then , if she did n't want her sister to heap coals of fire on her head when she got back — and Cara had more than enough on her plate at the moment — then she was going to have to be really pushy and go and ring Ven Gajdusek 's doorbell . |
| 22 | Others match music to moods and tasks , like the listener who does her ironing to ‘ loud and rocky ’ pop , but likes classical music on her headphones when she reads . |
| 23 | He could imagine sitting on her lap when he was smaller . |
| 24 | The girl in the courtyard was on her back when she lost the sun entirely . |
| 25 | but you know that one what Pauline has on her bed when we go , that 's only thin |
| 26 | The joy on her face when he sang our request for her was incredible . |
| 27 | But as soon as he cursed himself for being taken in last night by Isabel 's distress , two insistent memories shook his belief that it had been an act put on for his benefit : the way she had clung fiercely to his hand when they had passed the dungeons , her grip almost painfully strong , and the stricken expression on her face when he had ordered her to strip . |
| 28 | The amount of the annuity that will be taxable will depend mainly on her age when she buys the annuity . |
| 29 | Because although she kept a guard on her tongue when she was with him , determined not to risk another quarrel , she had had to stop pretending to herself . |
| 30 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |