Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] on a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these different productions are sometimes summarised by writing them thus on a single line : |
| 2 | ‘ She paid to send me away on a racing car school course at Magny-Cours in France , ’ admitted Damon . |
| 3 | You will have spotted the chub , or signs of them , from some distance up or downstream , because you will not have been able to approach them upright on an open bank without them spotting you first . |
| 4 | THANK you , too — for giving me an opportunity to put you right on a simple matter of fact . |
| 5 | I 'll let you in on a little theory of mine . |
| 6 | Being inconsiderate to the doctor and other patients will get you off on a bad footing . |
| 7 | There was nothing like a flower to cheer you up on a dark day . |
| 8 | And we flew from er that was from London , we flew from the Croydon Airport in London , and er we , you went down to er an , a small office near Victoria Station in these days and er you w we , you put your luggage in there and then they took you out on a special bus to Croydon . |
| 9 | Is my hon. Friend aware of the ever-increasing frustration and anger among hundreds of my constituents in Grays , Tilbury and South Ockendon , who almost on a weekly basis have to put up with large invasions of mobile itinerants on land near where they live ? |
| 10 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 11 | She knew she should reply with some light-hearted quip which would set everything down on a matter-of-fact level and make her meaning plain , but quips were beyond her . |
| 12 | But I 'm getting a , I 'd , I 'd , I 'm up to normal now , I 've got everything back on a normal par I think . |
| 13 | Erm the only thing that erm I thought she might er do was erm er something else on a ten year basis , because she 's only fifty six , I mean that 's relatively young , so would you possibly suggest anything that could go for ten or more years ? |
| 14 | All he had was $30 : he 'd blown everything else on a crazy night in Miami . |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway , ’ she said in what she hoped was a businesslike manner , ‘ I 've come to see if you can help me out on a special job . ’ |
| 16 | Anyone fancy helping me out on a few voodoo dolls dressed in a famous black with blue/orange trim kit ? : - ) |
| 17 | Matilda perched herself carefully on an upturned box and more out of politeness than anything else she took a slice of bread and margarine and started to eat it . |
| 18 | ‘ Doctor Henry Jekyll sent me here on an important matter . |
| 19 | Three months in America in 1914 , raising funds for St Enda 's and mixing with hard-line Irish-Americans , set him single-mindedly on a revolutionary course . |
| 20 | Yes , well Tony Primmer 's one of the riders from Eastbourne that we managed to pick up because we can get him in on a low point average . |
| 21 | ‘ I need to see Mr Patterson , ’ I said as if I was letting him in on a big secret . |
| 22 | Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand . |
| 23 | I will give him sharp orders , he thought , and bring him up on a short rein ; and I will see him come to terms , and kiss the hand that curbs him . |
| 24 | When she discovered that he had called her repeatedly on a mobile phone she flew into a rage . |
| 25 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
| 26 | I was relieved to find my protege still motionless underneath his breeze block , so I picked him up , showed him the food and then laid him back on a fresh bed made from the local evening paper . |
| 27 | Korda let him out on a three-picture deal with Fox , continued to pay him $15,000 a year but would take a large slice of what Fox paid him : from the three pictures Richard would earn about £80,000 . |
| 28 | It was at this point that I decided to put her back on a loose creance , so that she could approach the lure from whatever direction she pleased . |
| 29 | The biggest mistake you could make about Juliana would be to label her ‘ Babe ’ and only take her seriously on a superficial level . |
| 30 | Their farms produce some excellent things — first-class olive oil , plenty of good fruit and vegetables , a short but growing list of wines a Frenchman might be persuaded to drink — but Greece has not yet found a way of selling them abroad on a large scale . |