Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was frigid and strait-laced and therefore somewhat ill-equipped to keep me on the straight and narrow . |
| 2 | ‘ I keep asking myself what it could have been that she was so keen to tell me on the phone . |
| 3 | But they also say in the alternative that that since the plaintiffs themselves were at this time by mid to late October of nineteen eighty five , not ready or able to complete it would have been improper erm for the defendant to advise the plaintiffs to serve a special notice to complete and my Lord the question that therefore arises er whether , even if that were correct , er and it 's not admitted that it is , that exonerates the defendants from given the advice er and whether they should still have advised the plaintiff erm of the opportunity which was open to him , that the plaintiff could if necessary take that course himself or be advised to go er elsewhere and be advised independently is er this is , this the point of the matter which he regarded as improper and was not willing to do it on the plaintiff 's behalf . |
| 4 | You 're not supposed to throw it on the floor where 's the end there . |
| 5 | That sounds a lot of money , but it 's not difficult to spend it on an airline . |
| 6 | Charity 's friends were hardly likely to accept him on the strength of a short acquaintance with the nursery slopes at Wengen . |
| 7 | So I would congratulate her on her good prospects as a statesman , or she would warn me of the dangers of dancing all night ; but if the stars looked town they would be no more likely to see her on a rostrum than me on a dance-floor . |
| 8 | Thus the large datasets are still there , but those who manage them are more likely to place them on a file server with appropriate network access ( Knight 1993 ) . |
| 9 | Having briefly described ten tests of language , it is now possible to compare them on a range of criteria . |
| 10 | Mary had been brought up with her story which , for many in the valley — except her own generation , increasingly unable to visit her on the heights she chose for her seclusion — had gone cold long ago . |
| 11 | ‘ She seemed pretty keen to get me on the team , ’ I said . |
| 12 | Would n't be very hard to find them on the streets would it ? |
| 13 | If the hon. Member for Leicester , South ( Mr. Marshall ) would like to accompany me in the new year , I should be only too happy to take him on a tour and show him just how much is happening outside Belfast as well as in it . |
| 14 | Though , using Letraset to title them is not easy to do , you know it 's very difficult to keep them on a straight line . |
| 15 | ‘ TV highlights the unsavoury incidents , they are far too ready to put them on the screen . |