Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … The horoscope in the Queen prophesies disaster for nearly everyone I know on the 16th of this month ( with the New Moon ) . |
| 2 | But there were some like me I suppose on the other side . |
| 3 | The revenue settlement is matched by the substantial local government capital settlement for ninety four five which I announced on the thirtieth of November . |
| 4 | ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera . |
| 5 | Before Cowley could add anything further , Roz Hatch appeared on the back lawn , carrying a tray of coffee , which she placed on the wide garden table . |
| 6 | Fascinated , Dr Neil , who had opened the bag and was beginning to pull out strange-looking forceps and a bottle of chloroform , watched her lift up her black skirt to reveal a spotless white petticoat , from which she cut a large square which she placed on the grimy table , having first cleared to one side the used cups and plates covered in half-eaten food . |
| 7 | Er hundred and forty pound for the coach to Yorkshire which we got on the other side , a hundred and six pound back so the club er sponsored that , a hundred and thirty four pound , and thirty four pound . |
| 8 | The Tremaynes preferred their original country seat of Heligan , near Mevagissey , and during the nineteenth century they made a lot of money , which they lavished on the latter , leaving Croan untouched by architectural fashions . |
| 9 | This is something which they manage on the first day , and then never repeat . |
| 10 | The group had held a press conference two days earlier at which they called on the Fourth Communist Party Congress ( Cuarto Congreso del Partido Comunista ) to instigate radical political reforms and also attempted to distribute a statement to this effect to Congress delegates . |
| 11 | When the females have laid their eggs , which they deposit on the moist ground , the males sit in groups around them on guard . |
| 12 | Which they work on the same system as a as a rotovator . |
| 13 | His education had been interrupted by the war of 1914–18 , in which he served on the western front as an officer in the 8th battalion of the East Surrey Regiment . |
| 14 | I bet myself he had professional ‘ On Tow ’ plates in the truck and he had , along with a seemingly authentic ‘ Police Aware ’ sticker which he stuck on the rear windscreen . |
| 15 | The New York Herald dispatched the journalist Henry Morton Stanley to find him , which he did on the famous encounter of 10 November 1871 at Ujiji , near Lake Tanganyika . |
| 16 | Slowly he hung his trousers on a hanger , which he placed on the communal rail which ran through the dressing room . |
| 17 | The substantial advances which it made on the earlier law were two : |
| 18 | Having regard to the terms of that subsection in its substituted and current form I would for my part place the duty which it imposes on the local authority on the decision-making , as distinct from the executive , side of the line . |
| 19 | Even if inflation can be contained , there remains the question of whether a lower rate of economic growth in the Western world can be sustained in view of the demands which it makes on the limited resources of our planet , especially food and minerals . |
| 20 | The campaign of the Conservative candidate , Richard Hickmet , was criticized for the way in which it dwelt on the controversial claim that it would be a " moral victory for terrorism " if the seat were to change hands as a result of the killing of Gow . |
| 21 | To put it very generally , from the mid-1950s ( the rock 'n' roll moment ) to the end of the 1960s the dominant sensibility in pop was a rock sensibility which had , at its cutting edge , an account of itself which drew on the Marxist critique of mass culture . |
| 22 | The first one is the one I played on the entire record of ‘ Question And Answer ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ You see , we have to take an interest in everything which hinges on the strange case of Sabine Jourdain . ’ |
| 24 | Not the one we took off ya , the one ya used on the big guy ? ’ |
| 25 | There are one or two exceptions on medical side that er we we call on the approved list |
| 26 | I told him I worked on the Menai Suspension Bridge . |
| 27 | The funeral trade furnished funerals in accordance with the rank of the deceased , and it was they who decided on the suitable coffin type , quality of lining and shroud . |
| 28 | But I have to confess that what I save on the weedless swings , I lose on the rampant roundabouts . |
| 29 | I can remember what I did on the first day of my holiday last year |
| 30 | That 's what you spotted on the Big Dipper . |