Example sentences of "[adv] on a [noun] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One threatened to bed down on a couple 's settee while they slept on a purchase , while an angry consumer from Redcar had to call police to get rid of another salesman . |
| 2 | A college lecturer in Redcar was reduced to a nervous wreck and had to call the police to get rid of salesmen while in Northallerton a salesman suggested he bedded down on a couple 's sofa while they slept on £5,000 offer . |
| 3 | During my son 's teenage years he spent his life like a hobo , sleeping-bag packed into his satchel in case he wanted to doss down on a schoolfriend 's floor somewhere . |
| 4 | Oliver , being left to himself in the undertaker 's shop , set the lamp down on a workman 's bench , and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread , which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand . |
| 5 | The Cam always looks so peaceful , especially so on a winter 's day with no punts or rowing boats in sight . |
| 6 | You ca n't expect her to get them in on a student 's grant . ’ |
| 7 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 8 | Bob is away on a day 's painting course today , so I am catching up with my letters before the Christmas deluge . |
| 9 | Then came the most dramatic theory of all — that German commandos dressed as British soldiers had stormed ashore on a summer 's night in 1940 . |
| 10 | There 's nothing worse than setting off on a day 's walking after a cold sleepless night when you feel as though you 've been trussed up in a straight jacket . |
| 11 | When he went off on a week 's holiday , I was asked to stand in experimentally for him . |
| 12 | So , start your children off on a lifetime 's love of books , a future of eager learning . |
| 13 | Indeed when our hosts tried to press still more on a woman 's plate and she blurted , ‘ I ca n't — I 'd be sick , ’ they looked quite delighted . |
| 14 | Of course , ten p.m. on a winter 's night , when one was a lady of leisure expected to be indoors enjoying a meal which someone else had cooked , was perhaps a bit much . |
| 15 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 16 | If the order was to advance , a man 's chances of completing twenty yards would not have been considered worth chalking up on a bookie 's blackboard . |
| 17 | The activists had given up on a people 's peace — and they were not yet ready to explore the possibilities of a people 's war . |
| 18 | He 'd think nothing of checking up on a fellow 's credentials . |
| 19 | We do n't just brand the cheapest tubes available , bubble pack them in pairs and hang them up on a dealer 's wall . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's gone out on a customer 's boat … ’ |
| 21 | The bike 's many gears , light frame and thinnish tyres also make it highly suitable for cycle touring , as I found out on a weekend 's cycling trip in Normandy . |
| 22 | Even promising young athletes do n't bring us out on a winter 's day ; we do have little tours of inspection , occasionally . ’ |
| 23 | The RAC is worried about a new system of fines introduced today , which is worked out on a person 's ability to pay . |
| 24 | passenger , the driver 's brother , knew vehicle was uninsured. he consented to ride in the vehicle when , with another , he and the driver set out on a night 's drinking . |
| 25 | It was a long , long time since he 'd gone off to America and now , at last , he was coming back on a month 's holiday . |
| 26 | Used to walk around on a camel 's hump . ’ |
| 27 | And even on a cook 's wages she would n't be able to rise to that . ’ |
| 28 | By the flickering light of a hundred or more paper spills , and with no small straining of the eyes , I had read things to haunt the most sceptical , least imaginative mind , even on a summer 's afternoon in good company . |
| 29 | This forms part of their occupational culture and helps to explain the strongly negative values placed on imprisonment because of the damage it is known to inflict , not least on a person 's capacity to re-enter the community subsequently . |
| 30 | A wooden bench seat and a scatter of garden chairs suggested that the residents of the surrounding buildings might take their ease there on a summer 's night . |