Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I could n't possibly afford the flat if I were renting it now , but I got it on a long lease just after the war , when rents were much less than they are today , " she said . |
| 2 | I 've got them on in one room , er I put them on a little bit |
| 3 | I agree with what you 're saying but when I 've done it before and involved the pupil in such a report I put it on a separate sheet , so that |
| 4 | I followed it on a snug rope and pronounced it ‘ gripping but mild ’ , but then again , it 's always easy on the blunt end . |
| 5 | I find myself on a small brick platform about twenty feet above a man-made , well-bricked channel which follows a straight course through the factories and warehouses . |
| 6 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 7 | I hurt myself on a big erm . |
| 8 | I do n't do it on that , I do it on a big blackboard |
| 9 | If I had it on a solid floor , but it 's got ta go , do n't forget it 's on a a wooden floor . |
| 10 | I had it on a little bit of elastic band and I 've , I 've lost it . |
| 11 | When I have found my tension I write it on a adhesive label and stick this on the inside of the cone , catching the tail end of yarn to the label at the same time . |
| 12 | I 'm explaining why I wanted it on a regular arrangement so that I would n't have to be annoying you when you 're … well , when you 've had a drink I suppose . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Sorry , but I really , truly can not help you now , ’ I say , just before I dispatch them on a current running down towards St Malo . |
| 14 | The house was semi-detached , which put them on a higher social level than the people who lived in the long uniform ranks , a pleasant , gravel-faced house which had been built after the war and which had a good sized garden back and front , three bedrooms , a bathroom — and an outside toilet , coal house and glory hole . |
| 15 | They were also subject to the English Parliament , which put them on a different footing from the King 's Scots or Irish subjects , who had Parliaments of their own that were not subordinate to the Westminster Parliament in the way that the Virginia assembly was . |
| 16 | Cromwell , the head of state in the Republic , encouraged a reorganization of the East India Company , with a new charter which put it on a firmer basis . |
| 17 | By contrast the peripheral employee is judged entirely on his past record or that of the consultant company which employs him on a semi-permanent basis . |
| 18 | To wit : Syrett , beautiful but doomed , cut his hand on a wine glass at a party and , after ignoring his doctor 's advice to avoid climbing , did irreparable damage to his tendons which started him on a tightening spiral of alcoholism and eventual suicide . |
| 19 | If you did , if you failed them on a regular basis , you would n't be here , right ? |
| 20 | ‘ When I came such a strategy to the Wall Street Journal : ‘ It 's like a company choosing a franchise : you want one on a busy corner , not in the middle of nowhere . ’ |
| 21 | If you put someone on a second floor balcony , for instance , to deliver an address , it looks as if he is simply haranguing his listeners . |
| 22 | The death at the weekend of Siho Iyiguven , who threw himself on a burning mattress at Harmondsworth detention centre , near Heathrow , was followed yesterday with further suicide threats by detainees who barricaded themselves into their dormitory . |
| 23 | Gable regards this as an insult to the audience handed out by critics who consider themselves on a higher level . |
| 24 | An advertiser 's business with its agency is known as an " account " , and account people are the men and women who run it on a day-to-day basis . |
| 25 | Searching round for where she 'd put her champagne glass , she discovered it on a wrought-iron table behind her . |
| 26 | ‘ She keeps you on a tight rein , does she ? |
| 27 | There 's no throttle as you know it on a modern car . |
| 28 | And on a good night the stars would seem to brighten ; if you looked up it was like a clear winter 's night in the city , one of those nights when you find yourself on a dark street , one without streetlamps , and for once you can see that the stars have different colours ; they are like still fireworks . |
| 29 | She positioned herself on a front bench , laid out her pastels and board , and began drawing under the eyes of the judge , who , be all accounts , turned a shade of puce . |
| 30 | She positioned herself on a front bench , laid out her pastels and board , and began drawing under the eyes of the judge , who , be all accounts , turned a shade of puce . |