Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By some miraculous quirk of fate , I have so far managed to get through life as a jobbing hack without ever once having to put my opinions on the preachers into print . |
| 2 | My body will cease to be the temple of physical perfection that it currently is , my old aches and pains will return and my reliance on the ministrations of the NHS will increase . |
| 3 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 4 | I stamped my feet on the cobbles as a sign that I was freezing . |
| 5 | Since my return I have been busily employed in recommencing my work on the Birds of Australia … |
| 6 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 7 | The wind was blowing up the hill so I was able to ignore the thick cover on the left of the track and concentrate all my attention on the rocks to my right . |
| 8 | ‘ Whenever I hear my name on the lips of my little sister , ’ Roman cut in behind them , his voice sardonic , ‘ I smell trouble . ’ |
| 9 | Then he put my hand on the flies of his trousers . |
| 10 | For your information , however , my thoughts on the effects of the system on the Library 's operations are as follows : |
| 11 | I hope that many people will send their views on the proposals to the Inland Revenue . |
| 12 | The first relates to the power of the court : in appeal proceedings the court has the power to substitute its decision on the matters in issue for that of the body appealed from . |
| 13 | This second volume of drawings vindicates their reliance on the individuals to whom they have entrusted the expansion of this area of their collections . |
| 14 | ‘ The freak would do well to keep in mind that we have preserved its existence on the grounds of its intelligence alone . ’ |
| 15 | In addition , the UDC have not thought about the impact of their plans on the residents of the community , many of whom have been born and brought up there . |
| 16 | The pageant , though it rolled and wallowed , groaned and scraped its underbelly on the crests of every ridge , did not overturn or suffer any collision . |
| 17 | An outcry from dentists around the country this week forced the Government to postpone their decision on the payments until May 1 . |
| 18 | Surely if the judges did come to their decision on the grounds of relative merit , they should be prepared to defend it ? |
| 19 | In Colombo policemen often took advantage of municipal health , safety and traffic regulations in order to ‘ tax ’ carters , rickshaw drivers and others who made their living on the streets of the capital , and in the twentieth century bus drivers regularly bribed the police . |
| 20 | Christine Brooke-Rose 's growing interest in structuralist linguistics is evident in her novels of the 1960s in the use of creative juxtaposition and other devices which depend for their effect on the relations between elements rather than on the elements ‘ as such ’ . |
| 21 | It was 1963 and as David started his new job , ‘ Mersey Mania ’ was taking its stranglehold on the charts with The Beatles , Gerry and the Pacemakers , Freddie and The Dreamers ; everything with a Liverpudlian accent tasted success . |
| 22 | In the parallel line of the submissive , a pretty , dark girl of about twenty was emptying her handbag on the instructions of a uniformed harridan . |
| 23 | Unguarded pto shafts , clearing machinery while it is still running , failing to switch off engines , and removing fallen and hung-up trees still exact their toll on the lives of our workforce . |
| 24 | The cold , rainy conditions took their toll on the competitors at the Longfield Road Stadium and three race leaders were forced to throw in the towel . |
| 25 | For Eliot , Frazer 's work was of an importance paralleling the psychology of ‘ the complimentary [ sic ] work of Freud — throwing its light on the obscurities of the soul from a different angle ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Right , Jimmy , ’ she said , her eyes on the papers in her hand , and was about to add that they 'd start with the paperwork he 'd collected , when a voice that definitely was n't Jimmy 's cut in . |
| 27 | A poor middle aged peasant couple of Cum Sien in Honan province were dependent for their subsistence on the wages of their only son who worked in a coal mine . |
| 28 | Infra-red light reaches the Earth in significant amounts , and its effect on the molecules of both living and inanimate objects is to vibrate them , which means that it raises their temperature . |
| 29 | Finally , a pertinent finding of the present study is that the protective effect of dietary calcium on the lytic activity of faecal water correlated with its effect on the concentrations of soluble fatty acids and bile acids ( Fig 6 ) , but not with their total concentrations ( Fig 4 ) . |
| 30 | New York is renowned for its effect on the personalities of outsiders and the Girls all went through a metamorphosis . |