Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it .
2 Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago .
3 Does Mike have some er Georgian Hotel , look at that Christmas jokes , Daddy , Eddie 's broken my new dog how did he do that I hit him on the head with it Why is Father Christmas unemployed ?
4 It is for that reason that I include it on the shortlist for the Worst Building in the World title .
5 IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere .
6 Clive Kemp 's suggestion that she join him on a cruise across the Mediterranean had seemed the perfect antidote to a long hard winter , a series of temping jobs which had been more demanding than usual , and the unpleasantness of her break-up with Giles .
7 She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day .
8 It 's also easy to care for as it can be hand or machine washed at 40°C , though we do recommend that you iron it on the reverse side while still damp .
9 If you use this method , make certain that you write them on the board before the talk and that your writing is legible .
10 LEFT Especially if you are not used to fitting a check chain , take care to ensure that you put it on the right way round .
11 That you showed me on the plan ?
12 That we close everything on the on the phone .
13 The short answer is that we assert it on the basis of two things , an independent nomic conditional , and ( C ) a belief about certain conditions , which is a belief that the antecedent of the independent conditional is in a certain part true .
14 As the hon. Gentleman knows , whenever we make comparisons the figures that we quote are adjusted backwards to ensure that we quote them on a truly comparable basis in all instances .
15 ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted .
16 When you see it coming — remember that they do everything on the move — you jump on to the runner on the opposite side from the dog , take a deep breath and hope the runner wo n't kick it up .
17 I think that was a different boat to the one that they showed you on the telly .
18 The fact that he rapes her on the night that Stella 's baby is born , on their bed , and in his wedding pyjamas makes Stanley seem even more bestial .
19 She shook herself inwardly , said severely , Control yourself , Sally-Anne Tunstall ; remember what happened when you had such soft thoughts about a man before , and the sudden dreadful memory this evoked hit her so hard that she stopped dead in her tracks , gave a stifled wail , and went so white that Dr Neil , hearing her , and looking at her , saw that her pallor was so extreme that he thought her on the verge of fainting .
20 Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour .
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