Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 They had left it for me to finish alone on a chill blue , lonely morning five centuries later .
2 You were quite happy for me to come home on the bus .
3 ‘ What was once a one mile journey into Garrison for someone living just on the other side of the border became a 26 mile round trip .
4 Neither of them said much on the way .
5 One solution is to allocate property rights over the resources , so that the cost of the individual 's use of them falls only on the individual .
6 We may know these things on an intellectual level , but there 's nothing like having the emotional truth of them brought home on a gut level-none of us are free from some degree of the self-blame that makes so many women feel responsible for their own rape .
7 It would be nice to think of them working together on the training ground .
8 Pictures were flashed around the world of the two of them cavorting recklessly on a beach .
9 The two of them sat together on the damp grass .
10 Individuals and corporations hold portfolios of assets , the precise composition of which depends both on the characteristics of those assets and on the asset holder 's attitude to risky outcomes .
11 After four attempts to set our 45lb CQR in the thin sand-over-rock bottom , we gave up and put out a couple of 40lb Danforths , both of which bit hard on the first attempt .
12 There have been more cancelled and postponed competitions here in the last few years than live ones — all of which reflects badly on the BMC as controllers .
13 The first three are measures from the GRE assessment , all of which rely heavily on the ‘ standard ’ measures of housing characteristics from the Census .
14 Do n't like two of you coming home on the bus but , especially when it 's cold and horrible !
15 He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with .
16 Some of it spilled inadvertently on the nearest congregation , particularly Carmella and Joey .
17 Advertising revenue would certainly help , or would boost profits , but much of it went simply on the paper and production costs of printing the advertisements .
18 The investigation of anything happening directly on the river would normally be the responsibility of the River Police , at least until such time as it might lead to inquiries inland .
19 Each of us lies somewhere on a spectrum of ability to show feeling which is reflected in our behaviour .
20 Both of us concentrated more on the machines , as opposed to the compositing ( type-setting ) .
21 It only remains for you to push forward on the joystick and go kick some butt .
22 used to be er , you know as you 're going down to infirmary down from you turn right on the road do n't you ?
23 It was very unusual for him to go anywhere on a Thursday , whether Porteneil or any further afield .
24 In the end , the interpretation of research data and the results of statistical tests applied to them rests squarely on the researcher 's shoulders :
25 but then on the erm , Saturday , and the , that 's , and then on I say then on the bloody Friday night what happened he fell out the bed I phoned
26 We are not to know that new methods of correlation will not he developed ( as spores , hystrichospheres , etc. , have been developed in recent years ) to correlate the least promising.looking formations , Ultimately perhaps we shall have a little black box into which we only have to pop our rock specimen for its age to he read automatically on a dial .
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