Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 2 | ‘ You would n't believe how many of our employees told me what a good deal they got on a car or a boat because they adopted Karrass ' strategies ’ says an executive of a major oil company . |
| 3 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 4 | Skipper , Derek Hall got them going with his first ever goal for the club , so no wonder he went on a victory run . |
| 5 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 6 | I would not expect an angler to hit , or even see , every bite he has on a swing-tip the first time he uses one . |
| 7 | With reluctance she pulled on a jacket and set out for the Rectory . |
| 8 | Yeah because if you want to go to Southwell at the present moment you go on a bus and you got to wait two hours to get one back . |
| 9 | That evening we camped on a hill overlooking Beni Abbes . |
| 10 | Usually she cries like the rain we had on a holiday once , up in Scotland — a soft , grey drizzle — but this time her body shook with real sobs . |
| 11 | So when he heard you were in town he hit on a plan to get rid of both of you . |
| 12 | In his room he pulled on a dressing-gown and sat down and waited . |
| 13 | The noise we hear on a Sunday , you know ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Meanwhile , I think you should consider a bone-marrow harvest , in case we decide on a transplant at some future date . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You remind me of a medieval fresco I saw on a church in Donegal once . |
| 16 | We think of the spoken language , the written language , what in practice do you mean by ‘ language ’ , is it an instruction you type on a keyboard , or what in terms of a computer ? |
| 17 | In the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday , a banking syndicate headed by HongkongBank Australia applied for a trustee to be appointed after Mr Bond , 53 , failed to repay about £110 million arising from a personal guarantee he gave on a loan to his former Greenvale nickel project . |
| 18 | These PC based systems , already being utilised by Infocheck Credit Indemnity , significantly speed up the basic process which is a yes ( you can have the limit you want on a buyer ) or no ( you ca n't ) . |
| 19 | To stop the argument they decide on a compromise : the patient gets half of one treatment and half of the other . |
| 20 | Two boys were fondling a large panting dog they had on a lead . |
| 21 | Of course they work on a Saturday . |
| 22 | For simplicity we concentrate on a subset of occam : timing , priority , vectors , constants , replicators and named processes ( procedures ) are omitted . |
| 23 | Next morning they sighted U-593 and attacked her ; about midday they came on a fleet of French trawlers but were satisfied they carried no German radio operators . |
| 24 | A few miles further down the road they came on a group of Italians with rifles waving at them to stop , obviously having been alerted by the German post . |
| 25 | to bed he wrote on a paper a bill , bill , bill |
| 26 | I wan na do all of them on me own so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , quick , said Miss Polly put her straight to bed he wrote on a paper for a pill , pill , pill |
| 27 | It seemed that Heathcliff 's room was locked , and there were no guest bedrooms , so in the end I slept on a chair in the child 's room . |
| 28 | Most of the daughters ( except Rose , who lost an eye ) soon married , but Minnie 's marriage to Abe Greenbaum came to an abrupt end when she did a ‘ bunk with Claud ’ — a doctor she met on a visit to London . |
| 29 | I mean that , that early fixture we struggle on a Saturday sometimes do n't we ? |
| 30 | The value of the heavy minerals is in the information they give on a sediment 's provenance , although their dissolution during diagenesis may result in modification to the original assemblage ( Morton , 1985b ) . |