Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 2 | She said fucking machine out there not paying me out and your cancel my money on the fucking card am I supposed to eat today ? |
| 3 | If there was a black kid and a white kid with equal qualifications who both went for the same job , I would have to put my money on the white kid getting the job , because we 're in a white-dominated society . |
| 4 | When we used to go out in the street , I would be on one side of the matron holding her arm , my sister on the other side doing the same . |
| 5 | Very slowly I took my weight on the good hand and slid my feet over the rim of the tub . |
| 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 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
| 8 | ‘ It was very comfortable , ’ he surprisingly recorded , ‘ and I could always keep my eye on the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Actually , I prefer my wine on the dry side , ’ Peacock said . |
| 10 | This is , in fact , exactly the topic that I 'm going to be addressing in my lecture on the Open Day . |
| 11 | Then a wave of feebleness swamped me and dumped my body on the top step . |
| 12 | I stayed in my room on the eighth floor for most of the day , just waiting . |
| 13 | I gave a short address with one foot on each side of the peace-line [ a sleeping policeman — concrete ] basing my theme on the marvellous passage in the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke — the song of the angels , seen and heard by the shepherds , ‘ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill to all people ’ . |
| 14 | As Frank Johnson commented in The Times , my appearance on the short walk between the Grand Hotel and the conference centre provoked uproar from the watching demonstrators . |
| 15 | When I saw my picture on the front page of the local newspaper I knew it meant trouble . ’ |
| 16 | Had I taken up my station on the same day two , three or even four hundred years earlier the same spectacle would have presented itself , completely unchanged . |
| 17 | used to bang my head on the bloody thing ! |
| 18 | I lay on my back , my head on the sandy ground , staring out to the side where the body of the buck lay at the end of a little curved line of black , and tangled in the arm-rest and grip of the catapult . |
| 19 | I struck my head on the moving machinery and hurt my back . |
| 20 | Unfortunately I had not realised that a stern rope had already been passed to the ship and an indignant shout from my crew on the after deck drew my attention to the long nylon rope which was now snaking dangerously round the bollards as we drew away . |
| 21 | During my spell on the late desk I went out on no fewer than eleven murders . |
| 22 | I fell onto the settle , hit my elbow on the carved arm-rest , and drew in my breath to scream again . |
| 23 | Money 's not brilliant but sometimes I see my name on the front page and I feel almost successful for a while , until I come to something like this . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I put my name on the road-traffic-accident victim and I walked out with UNIDENTIFIED clutched in my paw . |
| 25 | I would like to present a petition standing my , in my name on the green order paper signed by two hundred and eight si signatures of parents of St Mary 's Fields s school , erm I move that this be be referred to the education committee for consideration . |
| 26 | I I move the petition in my name on the green order paper Chairman , to restrict the speed of of cars in Mossgate , Leicester on behalf of Weston Park Labour party . |
| 27 | I 'd like to move this petition under my name on the green order paper , that it be referred to the environment committee for consideration today . |
| 28 | I 'd like to move a petition containing two hundred and forty four signatures and my name on the green order page and I ask that it be referred to the environment committee for consideration . |
| 29 | I move a petition containing nine hundred and sixteen signatures under my name on the green order page and I ask that it be referred to the environment committee for consideration . |
| 30 | The weather was unexpectedly hot , and had brought out a sudden rash of men leering from shop doorways and cars for a glimpse of female flesh , while Vonetta struggled to find my flat on the sprawling council estate where I live . |