Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think I caught everyone on the wrong foot at Ayresome Park when I increased my shareholding to 48 per cent earlier in the season . ’ |
| 2 | You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him . |
| 3 | Detectives say someone on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night . |
| 4 | ‘ When I came such a strategy to the Wall Street Journal : ‘ It 's like a company choosing a franchise : you want one on a busy corner , not in the middle of nowhere . ’ |
| 5 | I 've already completed mine : my son and I disturbed one on the main path leading up to The Merrick , in Galloway , and ranger Fred Gordon and I saw a very angry one on the path in Glen Cairn in the Cairngorms . |
| 6 | Fishbane has something on a grander scale altogether . |
| 7 | Glenshee has four cannons and Aonach Mor now has one on a one-year trial basis . |
| 8 | Turning to football , the West Indies have done nothing on an international scale , though the game is popular and played at a domestic level . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Close to it at a March meeting in 1585 accusations of a theft of some Scottish spurs and counter-accusations of ‘ a pretended matter beforehand ’ began to fly to and fro , until without warning someone on the Scottish side shot and killed Russell . |
| 11 | First of all , presumably , you lose your normal time structure of having to go off and do something on a regular basis . |
| 12 | Stretch up as if you are trying to reach something on the top shelf of the kitchen at home and you know you are going to succeed . |
| 13 | Prentice reached up and put something on the thin collar of Rory 's shirt . |
| 14 | ‘ Though I 'm surprised you have n't got something on a grander scale . ’ |
| 15 | At first we could n't see anything on the white backing but then Eadred brought across a candle , held it near the page , not quite close enough to scorch , and sea-green writing began to appear . |
| 16 | But I have n't had anything on the other piece and I want something on . |
| 17 | It is unwise to erect one on a grassed area unless you use scaffold boards to spread the load |
| 18 | Well I , I I , I do n't mind how it 's done but erm I hear nothing on the many people on , you know , who talk about erm giving aid erm a dread from this problem is this vast erm amount of the G M P and going on armaments and going on one way and another . |
| 19 | if we can resolve it with cos then you 're getting summat on a different style of thinking to that , you know , I know Fred does n't wan na be involved but then you 've always got somebody , well we 'll have to go and see Fred first . |
| 20 | The Economist described the situation vividly : ‘ Whenever one hears somebody on the French radio vituperating against ‘ adventurers ’ one can be sure that M. Cohn-Bendit or some other leftist student is the target . |
| 21 | So design one on the same scale as the backcloth . |
| 22 | Yeah , yeah , cos our , our be inclined to leave something on the front door step and go . |
| 23 | Because here 's the weird thing about these relationships with women : you get everything on the first date . |
| 24 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |
| 25 | McIntyre was able to drive her almost as fast to windward as the 50-footers and lost nothing on the downwind legs . |
| 26 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 27 | ‘ They wo n't have regular fashion articles , but might have something on the political significance of hemlines . ’ |
| 28 | The other one , could I just correct something on the last line of er , comment at the bottom of the , bottom of page two . |
| 29 | We did n't have one on the last play . |
| 30 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |