Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 2 | ‘ You would n't believe how many of our employees told me what a good deal they got on a car or a boat because they adopted Karrass ' strategies ’ says an executive of a major oil company . |
| 3 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 4 | Punters pay for the numbers of crosses they mark on a picture of a football match . |
| 5 | Skipper , Derek Hall got them going with his first ever goal for the club , so no wonder he went on a victory run . |
| 6 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 7 | I would not expect an angler to hit , or even see , every bite he has on a swing-tip the first time he uses one . |
| 8 | Towards the end of my primary school years I went on a holiday with my year to Kent with my friends and many other pupils and teachers . |
| 9 | With reluctance she pulled on a jacket and set out for the Rectory . |
| 10 | Yeah because if you want to go to Southwell at the present moment you go on a bus and you got to wait two hours to get one back . |
| 11 | That evening we camped on a hill overlooking Beni Abbes . |
| 12 | The water had to be drawn up out of one of a battery of long-necked cisterns behind the cottage , and when we had done that and fed the plants we sat on a seat by the Priapus arbour , with the unusual smell , in summer Greece , of verdant wet earth all around us . |
| 13 | Usually she cries like the rain we had on a holiday once , up in Scotland — a soft , grey drizzle — but this time her body shook with real sobs . |
| 14 | So when he heard you were in town he hit on a plan to get rid of both of you . |
| 15 | From childhood he had been fascinated by natural history , and at Cambridge he decided on a career which would enable him to combine medical research with his interest in comparative biology . |
| 16 | In his room he pulled on a dressing-gown and sat down and waited . |
| 17 | ‘ Meanwhile , I think you should consider a bone-marrow harvest , in case we decide on a transplant at some future date . ’ |
| 18 | Probably one of the most horrific things I remember on a cricket field . |
| 19 | ‘ You remind me of a medieval fresco I saw on a church in Donegal once . |
| 20 | We think of the spoken language , the written language , what in practice do you mean by ‘ language ’ , is it an instruction you type on a keyboard , or what in terms of a computer ? |
| 21 | Three so number of columns three , and I 'm not quite sure how many rows we want , how many questions we get on a page but perhaps try for thirty something like that , okay okay , now table is n't showing , go to view , oh , go to tables sorry table and you see grid lines is not clicked so click on grid lines , and if the table does n't show that 's usually why . |
| 22 | In the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday , a banking syndicate headed by HongkongBank Australia applied for a trustee to be appointed after Mr Bond , 53 , failed to repay about £110 million arising from a personal guarantee he gave on a loan to his former Greenvale nickel project . |
| 23 | At Joppa he embarked on a boat to the farthest end of the known world : Tarshish , in Spain . |
| 24 | These PC based systems , already being utilised by Infocheck Credit Indemnity , significantly speed up the basic process which is a yes ( you can have the limit you want on a buyer ) or no ( you ca n't ) . |
| 25 | To stop the argument they decide on a compromise : the patient gets half of one treatment and half of the other . |
| 26 | Two boys were fondling a large panting dog they had on a lead . |
| 27 | For simplicity we concentrate on a subset of occam : timing , priority , vectors , constants , replicators and named processes ( procedures ) are omitted . |
| 28 | Next morning they sighted U-593 and attacked her ; about midday they came on a fleet of French trawlers but were satisfied they carried no German radio operators . |
| 29 | A few miles further down the road they came on a group of Italians with rifles waving at them to stop , obviously having been alerted by the German post . |
| 30 | to bed he wrote on a paper a bill , bill , bill |