Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without even knowing it , we may make assumptions about them based on the fact that they 're called Charles rather than Kevin . |
| 2 | My mother was absolutely marvellous about me going on the stage . |
| 3 | He did not bother to look up when Corbett and Ranulf were ushered in but made a gesture for them to sit on the bench alongside the table while he continued noisily with his meal . |
| 4 | Playing against Celtic , however , is generally supposed to be difficult for someone who formerly captained the club and could not say that his regard for them ended on the day he was transferred . |
| 5 | The idea was for me to go on the high-wire sixty feet above ground — on the shoulders of a Czechoslovakian circus performer . |
| 6 | In view of the extra expense involved in caring , which is usually even more difficult for someone to afford on a pension , these discrepancies urgently need sorting out . |
| 7 | There did not seem to be a living soul left among the houses , except for someone banging on the door of the lock-up . |
| 8 | Also taking part in the programme were Flossie and Bill Jarvis , giving their memories of journeys on the railway and the Rev. Ray Arnold , who lives in the former Horderley station bungalow , told about his finds on the site . |
| 9 | ‘ Would ye after what happened on the way up to Cajamarca ? ’ |
| 10 | it 's not so bad for somebody living on the south coast |
| 11 | Another , more startling , departure was the introduction of regular team talks , the idea for which came on a train travelling back from an away match . |
| 12 | There are local people who support the school … many of whom shoot on the site . |
| 13 | The programmed is likely to displace some 15,000 Auyu tribal people , most of whom depend on the forest as hunter-gatherers or rubber tappers . |
| 14 | They were to have three children ; Will junior , Gladys ( both of whom went on the stage ) , and Joan . |
| 15 | Prices of industrial products doubled this week and rising prices of bread , milk and meat will worsen the already fast-declining living standards of the population , two thirds of whom live on the poverty line or below . |
| 16 | There was one of them caressing on the beach at Crystal Springs , and another of the glamorous couple wrapped around each other in the crystal-clear water of the hotel beach . |
| 17 | One of them remarked on the scent . ’ |
| 18 | However , according to eye-witnesses , at about 6am soldiers ordered the workers from the outbuilding where they lived , forced some of them to kneel on the ground and then shot them . |
| 19 | Very few women took part in training , which was surprising when one considers how important a part many of them played on the farm . |
| 20 | In the 138-member Chamber of Citizens ( 108 seats for Serbian representatives , half of them elected on a majority system by constituencies and half on a proportional system by party lists , plus 30 for Montenegrin representatives , six by constituency and 24 proportionally ) the Socialist Party of Serbia ( SPS ) gained 73 seats ; Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro 23 ; Serbian Radical Party ( SRS ) 33 ; League of Communists-Movement for Yugoslavia two ; Democratic Community of Vojvodina Magyars ( DZVM ) two ; independents three ; two seats for Serbia went to a second round of voting , held on June 14 ( together with two second-round polls for the republican assembly ) . |
| 21 | Outside the months of breeding all but a few species disappear to wintering grounds well south of the Arctic Circle ; thus the arctic has over 150 species of breeding land birds , but only eight of them reside on the tundra all the year round . |
| 22 | This book established Kitto as a writer , and in the following years , he wrote a number of books — many of them based on the Scripture , including the work which is still regarded as the best of its kind , Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature . |
| 23 | It is interesting to note that , although Sylvia was able to recall the events of that fateful afternoon and to describe in great detail the sights , sounds and emotions which prevailed , she had no idea at all of how long the two of them lay on the ground before her mother regained consciousness . |
| 24 | The strength , durability and weight of them depends on the weight of fabric used and how much coating has been applied . |
| 25 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 26 | It took different forms ; , but all of them turn on the idea that ‘ God ’ means something like ‘ supremely perfect being ’ , and that supreme perfection must include the fact of actual existence . |
| 27 | Not only are there vines as far as the eye can see from its brand-new winemaking centre in Vertus , but the company also owns nearly 310 acres of its own vineyards , most of them sited on the Côte des Blancs . |
| 28 | But then , most of them relied on the head men , we used to tell them you see , to keep their mouth shut . |
| 29 | ‘ But , on the other hand , probably very few of them decide on a whim to spend their entire capital on a shop in a strange city in a country they know nothing about , without doing the most elementary homework . |
| 30 | With the command he grasped Jess 's arm and hauled her to her feet , then shook her like a piece of crumpled linen , both of them swaying on the edge of the hatchway . |