Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | at home with my family , whenever I went on the H R T everything changed ! |
| 2 | Congress , I 'm a Labour Councillor and whenever I sit on the Council I also ask Conservative members to declare their interest before they speak on an issue , so I better declare mine . |
| 3 | It was easy for me to summon up this everyday vision , because whenever I sat on the toilet the hem was stretched between my calves , and if I leant forward it was always the salient object in my view . |
| 4 | How you decide on the assembly order is very much a matter of personal judgement , but the principles of shot to shot continuity , the function of cutaways , and the ordering of your material into a logical progression of images which tell a story , all follow the same rules as for in-camera editing . |
| 5 | First of all , I want us to think about how we actually use the telephone , how you talk on the telephone , what you say , and why it 's important . |
| 6 | Well — have you any suggestions about how we get on the machine ? ’ |
| 7 | A mere allegation that the goods are his , without any attempt to show how they came on the premises , will not do , for ‘ to allow such a statement to be a justification for entering the soil of another , would be opening too wide a door to parties to attempt righting themselves without resorting to law , and would necessarily tend to breach of the peace . ’ |
| 8 | We will examine its financial aims and objectives , how they impact on the finance function , some of the problems of implementation , and whether they are consistent with the changes already in hand . |
| 9 | how they keep on the road , do n't it ? |
| 10 | With these types of horses , try to sit very lightly and note how they work on the lunge without the weight on their back compared to how they work under a rider . |
| 11 | I want them to show me how they feel on the pitch . ’ |
| 12 | Contacted by telephone early yesterday when fighting was still under way , a young American couple told of how they crouched on the floor of their appartment , armed with their own guns , terrified that reports of the Battalions roaming suburban areas would mean the thugs appearing at their door . |
| 13 | I have never bought an aspidistra in my life , and I do n't know how they accumulate on the roof — offerings , perhaps , from the garden-boy who looks after it ? |
| 14 | Suppliers thank Dow Corning Europe for telling them how they rated on the grid . ’ |
| 15 | Even the highly cosmopolitan and very trendy audiences of New York City did not know quite what to say about it ; a typical reaction was from May Okon , of the New York Sunday News who wrote : ‘ Jack Nicholson 's Drive , He Said is how it read on the marquee of the Third Avenue movie house . |
| 16 | From these , the distribution of lifetime consumption can be obtained , and we can see how it depends on the parameters of the model . |
| 17 | The new wall turned out to be a blocking to fill a wide opening in a store-building ( 1954 Report , fig. 13 and this is how it appears on the plan ( Pl . |
| 18 | The first method saves the graph as a ‘ picture ’ of how it looks on the screen . |
| 19 | Asked how he decides on the price of a dish , the Cook ( Richard Bohringer ) explains that black ingredients are always the most expensive because people like to remind themselves of death . |
| 20 | You heard for yourself how he sounded on the phone ; he said he 'll be down . |
| 21 | I wonder how he performed on the potty ? |
| 22 | She tells him about her father — about how he stood on the cliffs in a flapping raincoat when she was a child and sang the whole of ‘ O Thou that tellest Good Tidings to Zion ’ over the roar of the wind and surf , and about how later she could not speak to him without irritation in spite of her love for him . |
| 23 | He went on around the block , again and again , until a space opened up in a barely-lit alley and he slipped the car in ahead of a Mercedes driver who , to judge from how he leaned on the horn , was well along the way to a heart condition . |
| 24 | It was only when I got on the ground and tried to walk did I realise that I had a bullet through the top of my right ankle . |
| 25 | ‘ It is necessary to have connections , you do not understand , ’ she told me when I remarked on the fact , though even the normally impassive Czechs leapt to their feet and gallantly opened doors for her at every available opportunity . |
| 26 | That 's when I hit on the answer . |
| 27 | When I finally went for the ( pregnancy ) test , I thought , this is it , this is the point where I go on the Pill . |
| 28 | For example , my understanding of the appearance of the landscape where I live on the Malvern Hills is increased by the knowledge that , ‘ The water table appears as a regular springline at about 600 feet above sea level , corresponding to the limit of cultivation and of historic settlement ’ . |
| 29 | I rolled out of bed at eight o'clock and went to the bathroom where I turned on the taps for a hot bath . |
| 30 | The shelves towered above me and from where I sat on the floor it looked as though all of my toys were staring straight at me . |