Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman .
2 That was why Aunt Alicia took pity on him in the first place , Jenny had said , because he had nowhere to put his horses .
3 Keep it in the quarantine tank , cease medication and keep an eye on it for the next few months .
4 She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes .
5 In each of Jesus ' beatitudes , God 's blessing comes in the first line , and is then followed by the effect of this blessing on us in the second line .
6 But a loveable man with it and a smile on him to the last .
7 Er , yes , it 's a requirement for the actual length of the contract on us in the first place but the second point is that , in the tender documents , we 've actually asked all the contractors to price all the different permutations , whether it 's seven cuts , eleven cuts , hundred millimetres or a hundred and fifty millimetres .
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