Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We began filming with Richard Phillips on the sidelines ( by which I mean on the floor , through the windows , in the lounge and peering at the man peering through the lens ) , Nigel ( Grubby ) Foster and Michael Hall representing J Walter Thompson , the Agency . |
| 2 | Steve mentioned , you know , to put fifteen , twenty pounds a month into it erm and you said well we 'll come back to that later which I think on the face of it is probably er a right way of going about it cos you did n't get interrupted at that stage talking about a specific product so I think that was er that was good . |
| 3 | Now accepted in common parlance , it stands for What You See Is What You Get , the implication being that the image you see on the screen will be exactly that which you get on the page . |
| 4 | The first of these circumstances was the arrival of an envelope , which she discovered on the hall mat on her return from school . |
| 5 | Last year she had a lovely crop from her plot , which measures about 2ft by 3ft ; this year she dug it over in plenty of time for May 4 , the day on which she sows on the basis of an old saying : ‘ the 4th of May is kidney bean day ’ . |
| 6 | These are intercalated with long nights of insomnia which she spends on the sofa with the radio and Herodotus , having fled her snoring lover Willy ( later Wally ) . |
| 7 | Majorie Boulton was President of the British Esperanto Congress in May at which she lectured on the history of Esperanto in Oxford . |
| 8 | Mrs Cullam put the baby on the table among the crumbs , removing its napkin which she dropped on the floor , and said in the same low economical tone , ‘ Get me another nappie , Georgina . ’ |
| 9 | She took out her wallet and found that she had six pounds and ten shillings which she placed on the chair by his bed ; ‘ Will that be enough to be going on with ? ’ she asked . |
| 10 | She turned them this way and that , selecting four perfect specimens , which she put on the seat between herself and Nora . |
| 11 | The difficulty is magnified when the sovereign is conceived as addressing ‘ the Commonwealth ’ comprising some countries which she rules on the advice of the respective ministers and other countries over which she does not reign at all . |
| 12 | But there is one scene where I fall over a sofa , which we added on the day of the shoot . ’ |
| 13 | The temple at Edfu , which we reached on the morning of the third day , was dedicated to Horus , for this was the spot where he was said to have vanquished Seth , and thus to have established the ascendancy of good over evil , This is never a , convincing concept , and the reliefs display the struggle and its happy outcome with an adamancy that seems to betray doubt . |
| 14 | We stopped at a shop and bought apples and beer , which we guzzled on the march , assault rifles and ammunition belts swinging round our necks as we used our hands to prise the tops off the beer bottles . |
| 15 | Holt , as is the nature of the man , carefully and quickly arranged his slot in the diminutive refuge , while I ordered a carafe of Vin des Vieux Guide , which we quaffed on the rocks outside the hut . |
| 16 | Erm which we found on the recreation ground . |
| 17 | He 's an archetypal nice bloke who is the first to get his round in at the Blighty Bar , an after-hours drinking club which we establish on the steps of the hotel after we discover that Tokyo shuts at 10.30 . |
| 18 | Out of this process come the different shades of black people 's skin colour which we see on the streets of London . |
| 19 | Trade unionists were demonstrating against sharp falls in living standards , which they blamed on the government 's current austerity programme , economic mismanagement and widespread government corruption . |
| 20 | white material , they 're just white , but they , they a total black out which they use on the rave nights . |
| 21 | To surmount this problem , the elephants started tearing down trees , which they laid on the fence until it collapsed , allowing them to step over it . |
| 22 | or whatever , just let them know roughly what you 're doing , cos , all they get is a tape , it gives them an idea of what sort of things were happening at that time , any words they ca n't pick up if she 's cooking , maybe that 's something she was making or whatever , erm , in the please write the first names and details , why you know them , of all the people speaking on this side of the tape , in order in which they speak on the tape in the first , first instance , right , you know , so now Carla , my husband , myself , Lee and , you do n't need to repeat them again after that |
| 23 | Apart from this scrutiny of military matters , of disputed effectiveness , the Assemblies also discussed military , financial and diplomatic support for the Palestinians , which they offered on the condition that the recipients of aid should strive for the unity of the Palestinian forces . |
| 24 | It will examine both their societies and the resources ( human , economic and military ) with which they embarked on the war . |
| 25 | The , the Imperial Ai Airways had just er they had just received four big planes er which they put on the Paris er route . |
| 26 | The party as a whole proved the reality of its patriotism from the first days of the war , and the logic of this continuation from peacetime was underlined by the speed with which Ulster Unionists rallied to the flag in 1914 , and the gallantry with which they died on the Somme in 1916 . |
| 27 | Another possible explanation is that , while time limits may provide one standard of excellence , the attention which they focus on the speed of work diverts attention from the possibility of doing work which is creative or innovative , thereby reducing achievement incentive . |
| 28 | The family were nearing Cork on their way home from a holiday in England and Wales — during which they called on the children 's grandparents in Milton Keynes . |
| 29 | In addition , the stress which they place on the feasibility of indefinite delay as a cause , rather than a consequence , of the misuse of the courts seems misplaced . |
| 30 | The same questions and the order in which they appear on the schedule would be administered , in a survey , to all respondents by all interviewers in the same way : this is to standardise stimuli . |