Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] on [art] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work .
2 They used to do that : the chief inspector walking down on a Saturday morning in full regalia and one of these fellows would nod and they 'd always walk to the corner , and the Chief would n't say anything about it because they were on the corner and not causing any obstruction .
3 Nude sunbathing down on the Waaf site ! ’ and everyone racing down to have a look .
4 I feel er something of a stranger walking in on the Maastricht reunion er annual dinner er at the er I have to say that erm I er would n't wish to cross swords with the honourable gentleman on the detail of the Maastricht bill but certainly but certainly I 'ave to say that for many people and maybe even some people on this own side who may be prepared to admit it , the false divide between Euro sceptics and Euro fanatics is one that does n't appeal to the new generations of members and I suspect on both sides of the house , we are in our considered view in Europe and we need to make the best of it and treat Europe on its merits rather than re-live the battles of the er late seventies and early eighties .
5 He denied UI would be doing this to appease SunSoft and others reportedly unhappy about the situation , and refuted suggestions that SunSoft wants UI 's commitment to use other suppliers and non-USL technologies as a pre-requisite for it signing off on the ABI effort .
6 It all starts off on the Friday evening of the Spring Bank Holiday with the President 's dinner , which for the centenary is being held in a marquee to cater for the huge numbers who wish to attend .
7 The two men were picked up on the Ross ice shelf , about 350 miles from the coastal camp at Scott base which was their original target .
8 Just 22 months after walking out on the Merseyside club , the 41-year-old Scot received a warm reception from the Kop as he took his place on the Blackburn Rovers bench .
9 ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene , but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’
10 ‘ Yes , the pressure on me has increased since Stuart decided to come back on the England scene but this is not the first time he has squeezed the position and I accept that challenge from a top-class player . ’
11 The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris .
12 * Russian scientists have reported large numbers of seals dying of blood cancer in the White and Barents Seas , allegedly as a result of radioactive waste resulting from the nuclear tests previously carried out on the Novaya Zemlya peninsula [ see Nuclear Power section ] .
13 The only important road works that had to be carried out on the Penge lines comprised widening and strengthening the bridge over the railway at Anerley Station , cutting back the forecourts of Penge Police Station and property adjoining Penge Station ( I.B.S.C. Railway ) .
14 You fly out on the Sunday evening , six thirty .
15 Now the Temperance Hall was a very very nice hall er balcony all the way around , it held five or six hundred people er candelabras and all the rest of it , a lovely stage and these travelling concert parties used to come round on a Saturday night , and I should imagine they 'd be doing the seasides during the summer and then they came back in the Walsall and various areas during the er winter months , and we used to get concert parties like The Roosters and The Bonbons and all those sort of people come along and they were real and of course fellas my age , I mean eighteen and nine we used to take our girls there I mean it was full of young people er you 'd perhaps have been to the pictures one night and it 's another way of entertaining really and it was really a first class entertainment .
16 I think in next weekend possibly er if we drove down on the Sunday evening
17 Or rather , about finishing up customers ' drinks , for when Albert came in on a Monday morning drunk at his own expense none of his morally outraged proprietors had ever turned a hair .
18 Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of .
19 Only a sixth of Paris 's milk came in on the Nord network , the biggest importer being Etat .
20 Well , it happened that Maureen and Aubrey were about to set off on a round-Britain motoring holiday .
21 This was fine , but solid evidence will have to be provided that the scene in which Palin woke up on the Orient Express to the knock of brioches at the door was the real thing .
22 Action round-up time now … two big events this week … we 're looking back on the RAC Rally and forward to the Hennesey Gold Cup
23 It is perhaps ironic that Neal — so critical of the selections of Revie and Robson — arrives back on the England scene at a time when Taylor is coming in for internal FA criticism for picking too many players .
24 I came back on the Friday night and erm , well I 've packed my job in at the Transport Department , I better go down to the Recruiting Office and see what else .
25 But my father went to America just after the war , and when he came back on the Queen Mary , he brought my mother some nylons , which were not obtainable in Britain at that time .
26 It went into your jotter , your jotter was handed in on the Monday morning , or the first time you went to the eng the English class and the teacher was his name , he went over that and if you 'd missed out a comma , you see or a full stop or anything like that .
27 Ruza Glavas , who was mourning a victim of war , became a target herself as six mortar bombs rained down on a Sarajevo cemetery .
28 There were 9 separate incidents in Oxford on saturday night and crowds of people turned up on the Blackbird Leys estate and in Rosehill to watch the stolen car displays .
29 There were 9 separate incidents in Oxford on saturday night and crowds of people turned up on the Blackbird Leys estate and in Rosehill to watch the stolen car displays .
30 And although ‘ workerism ’ was on the wane by the time Hayling turned up on the Langley personnel officer 's doorstep , he earned many brownie points among the comrades by becoming a ‘ genuine ’ member of the proletariat .
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