Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] on the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Prentice reached up and put something on the thin collar of Rory 's shirt . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But I have n't had anything on the other piece and I want something on . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So design one on the same scale as the backcloth . |
| 13 | Yeah , yeah , cos our , our be inclined to leave something on the front door step and go . |
| 14 | Because here 's the weird thing about these relationships with women : you get everything on the first date . |
| 15 | McIntyre was able to drive her almost as fast to windward as the 50-footers and lost nothing on the downwind legs . |
| 16 | ‘ They wo n't have regular fashion articles , but might have something on the political significance of hemlines . ’ |
| 17 | The other one , could I just correct something on the last line of er , comment at the bottom of the , bottom of page two . |
| 18 | We did n't have one on the last play . |
| 19 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 20 | They all agreed it was better to make steps on the eroded paths scarring Beinn Eighe and keep everyone on the one track . |
| 21 | Matter of fact Dad , he agreed with the management for er er er You see the management never wanted anybody on the minimum wage , never wanted to be on the min , so he agreed with 'em f for a special price for our coal we got out . |
| 22 | I , who can not reach anything on the top shelf at the supermarket ? |
| 23 | Because if you will have a had to get a recorder to listen to this side so you might as well put something on the other side and send it to me but of course there is no rush and in return you 'd be showing you take off anything or any part that you care to use . |
| 24 | and er and I said to Laura , ah I know , I 'll put so I 'll , I 'll , I 'll put something on the big screen so you know , some videos whatever . |
| 25 | Well if they 've separated you see you get one on the inside track , one on the outside track and they can be separated by a hundred metres so that there 's one , one side one |
| 26 | Perhaps that 's because being a larger lady I prefer to have something on the large side rather than the small ! |
| 27 | Moreover , a romantic feeling persists that to smoke puts one on the correct side of the political divide , along with the exploited rather than the exploiters . |
| 28 | Although his conservative clothing and mild manners did n't show it , he was becoming a ‘ Right-On ’ , and he would support anything on the new agenda . |
| 29 | And he had to say something on the bloody tape did n't he ? |
| 30 | Such sarcasm ill becomes anybody on the shaky ground that Goldschmidt here treads . |