Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She slid across the bed , making room for Johnny to sit beside her on the mattress . |
| 2 | When Simon the Trapper parted from him on the great north ride the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist , dragged up his gown a score of inches to free the movement of his lower legs , re-tied his girdle tightly , wiped his hands on the none too clean garment and taking hold of his staff set off up the highway in pursuit of his sack , of Marian , and of the verderers . |
| 3 | You can appreciate by the remarks my agent made to me on the telephone ( words which I swear I have not amended or distorted in any way at all ) just how big and unpleasant a problem I have sitting like a gibbering troll on my innocent shoulders . |
| 4 | I mean you get Sweet Fanny Adams done with them on the run up to Christmas anyway , E.l.S . |
| 5 | Its appropriateness for the Foreign Office area was on grounds of association and sentiment , rather than visual harmony , as on one side there were buildings of ‘ predominating importance ’ , and no local association to conflict with them on the other side . |
| 6 | The other girl made no attempt to hide her disgust as she turned back to the books lying before her on the table , and Rory felt her spirits sink still further as she headed for the door . |
| 7 | They crossed the road to face the oncoming traffic and had just passed a 40 mph speed limit sign when he looked over his shoulder and saw a car heading towards them on the wrong side of the road . |
| 8 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 9 | Three or four cars wheezed past us on the dusty road . |
| 10 | So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’ |
| 11 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 12 | Common Law might enable the defrauded party to resist an action brought against him on the contract ; Equity could order the document to be handed up and destroyed or cancelled . |
| 13 | Their conversation ceased as the eloquent tones of Michael Stein carried towards them on the public address system . |
| 14 | The device driver then compresses any data saved to the disk and decompresses data read from it on the fly . |
| 15 | This is the means by which LCH becomes the exclusive counterparty to both seller and buyer in respect of a contract made between them on the market . |
| 16 | Governments would not be swayed , nor would ministers tremble , on receipt of elegantly crafted and crisply sarcastic Notes written by him on the antique encryption machine which could be seen in a corner of the office , slowly rusting away in the hot , salt air . |
| 17 | At the same time , the sound of distant gunfire , explosions and shouting came to him on the night breeze , somewhere off his right and muffled by the intervening trees . |
| 18 | The employee earning more than £5,000 or the director will be assessed on the benefit received by him on the basis of the cost to the employer rather than the price that would generally be charged to the public . |
| 19 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 20 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 21 | Shearson Lehman analyst David Readerman , who raised his Microsoft rating to a ‘ strong buy ’ following the court ruling , said the company could easily adapt its Windows programme if the judge ruled against it on the remaining issues . |
| 22 | Now penurious ( ‘ I live , ’ she said , ‘ from mouth to hand ’ ) , and accepting her situation with great dignity and courage , she was striving to fulfil her ambition of taking the degree denied to her on the grounds of race years earlier at the University of Cracow . |
| 23 | He had already acquired some ex-episcopal lands back in 1647–8 , in settlement of earlier debts owing to him on the public faith . |
| 24 | Yes , Mrs Jones , we have a room booked for you on the thirtieth of July — can I be of any assistance to you ? |
| 25 | A female courts one or more males and then goes round laying eggs in nests prepared by them on the ground . |
| 26 | In addition , the deal covering the Walter-Guillaume donation ( handled by Jacques Walter after his father 's accidental death ) implied that the international nature of his own private collection — his right to dispose of it on the international market in other words — should be respected and the French State show itself ‘ worthy ’ of the gift . |
| 27 | In discussing Brian Way , I have suggested that not only has the emphasis placed by him on the individuality of the individual been misleading , it has also put some teachers in a position of distorting the medium of drama itself ; and that Brian Way in practice overcame this problem by including in his seminal publication a system of training in life skills . |
| 28 | Things , however , came to a head one day when a veterinary surgeon on his rounds , in a regulation Volvo estate , was alarmed to see Noddy tearing towards him on the wrong side of the road , in hot pursuit of a Transit van . |
| 29 | In one account of the visit , it is said that the Emperor was loathe to allow the doctor to leave China and did so only after Garvine appealed to him on the grounds that he wished to return to Scotland and attend to his aged and ailing father . |
| 30 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |