Example sentences of "[pron] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet here am I on a road that instead of tarmac looks like a patio laid in bricks — every one hand-placed in herringbone pattern . |
| 2 | No I on a weekly then you might have four or five dishes on it |
| 3 | I try it for a bit — you know , pretending that I 'm all frozen , but someone on a bike comes down the path and I got to move to get out the way . |
| 4 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 5 | The levy is nine per cent of the personal taxation level , meaning that most tax-payers contribute between two and four per cent of their incomes to the church ( or about £1,000 a year for someone on a £30,000 salary ) . |
| 6 | It may be a childish response , but when you have overtaken someone on a hill , it is very uncomfortable to be overtaken by them . |
| 7 | There is one great consolation , however , which is the fact that on a mountain nothing looks stupider than someone on a bike . |
| 8 | Perhaps you are fine when dealing with someone on a one-to-one basis but dread the thought of going to a party . |
| 9 | However problems can arise even for intelligent people with an extensive vocabulary , for example when they are communicating with someone on a subject other than their own speciality . |
| 10 | As a customer , reading the label will help you decide whether to buy a product — that is , whether it suits your needs ( for example , someone on a diet might not want to buy a product containing a lot of sugar ) . |
| 11 | People who have had experience of caring for someone on a long-term basis stress how important it is to lay down certain ‘ house rules ’ beforehand . |
| 12 | ‘ Someone on a white horse , ’ said Allen . |
| 13 | ‘ We are looking for someone on a consultancy basis to advise on above and below-the-line campaigns , but there may be several arms to that , ’ McDevitt adds . |
| 14 | For someone on a low income , weekly credit payments of £5 might be a heavy burden — though virtually imperceptible for someone on a high income . |
| 15 | For someone on a low income , weekly credit payments of £5 might be a heavy burden — though virtually imperceptible for someone on a high income . |
| 16 | Taken as a whole these measures would cost someone on a £30,000 a year salary about £825 of their after tax income . |
| 17 | She argues that it often is still in the employers ' interest to recruit someone on a relative 's recommendation , since this gives employers more control over their workforce . |
| 18 | To someone on a planet a long , long way off it would look just like an ordinary star . ’ |
| 19 | Passing through Frampton only someone on a completely different train on a completely different line could fail to see Rovers ' ground in the Happy Shopper Leisurerama complex with its 24-foot inflatable baked bean can nestling against the track . |
| 20 | Someone on a boat out there was having a party , people singing and making more noise than the music they were playing . |
| 21 | Right so , someone on a bike , you 've got a mate on a pushbike and you 're starting a race and you give him a shove . |
| 22 | The time for someone on a star will be different from that for someone at a distance , because of the gravitational field of the star . |
| 23 | You always got someone on a hack to help you . |
| 24 | ‘ The benefit of massage is that it allows patients to talk to someone on a one to one basis . |
| 25 | ‘ The benefit of massage is that it allows patients to talk to someone on a one to one basis . |
| 26 | So if you got ta have someone on a skiing accident they 've got ta be helicopter lifted off you 'll end up with thousand , four hundred thousand |
| 27 | Because I du n no because it was you know if you get off with someone on a Saturday night yeah ? |
| 28 | Next , the next person receives a picture of a boy on a bike because the accident was a hit and run accident and they hit someone on a bike . |
| 29 | So Roger Corman said to Jack Nicholson , ‘ I want you to write me a screenplay called The Trip , about this psychedelic craze and LSD , put someone on an acid trip . |
| 30 | Our samples were no exception : Table 5.1 takes a loose definition of ‘ carer ’ and shows — for the three points in time — whether the dementia sufferer lived with someone who helped in some way to care for him or her , and if not , how frequently he or she was visited by someone on an informal caring basis . |