Example sentences of "[verb] on a [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either he was dead straight , or else he was the sharpest operator-bar none , including the guy she 'd met on a singles ' holiday who 'd almost managed to convince her that he was on his final fling with only ninety days left to live — that she had ever encountered . |
| 2 | The Namutamba Rural Education Project started in 1967 , is based on a teachers ' college and involves fifteen primary schools near the town of Mityana , some fifty miles from Kampala . |
| 3 | One of the greatest players ever to put on a Spurs ' jersey I would think . |
| 4 | With these facilities the way is open for customer database files to automatically be retrieved and displayed on an operators ' screen before the phone is answered — the kind of time saving integration between phone and workstation that telesales operations dream about . |
| 5 | A man has been remanded on bail charged with possessing drugs after a police raid on a travellers ' camp . |
| 6 | It 's that impish , freckled , cheeky chappie with a red wig and a deformed grin whose face is superimposed on a Royals ' bikini or a soap star 's breasts to utter five devastating words : ‘ Life 's better in The Sun . ’ |
| 7 | Imagine , for example , that two people have an identical dream — for the sake of argument we can conjecture that it concerns standing on an ants ' nest . |