Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Robert had been vague about them on an embarrassing number of occasions . |
2 | A number of organisations to which we spoke provided ( paid ) training for people filling such positions , despite the fact that they would only be working for them on a casual basis and might even use the skills they acquired working for other organisations . |
3 | It seems that they can be market counterparties even if the firm acts only as their agent and , indeed , even if the firm is acting for them on a discretionary basis . |
4 | A bond began to be formed when they asked Martin to place protection for them on an icy pitch just below the summit . |
5 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
6 | He was good enough to organize a complimentary flight for me on the Imperial Airways ' flying boat which plied the sea and air routes between Long Island Sound and Bermuda several times each week . |
7 | Nine till one for me on the late show Adrian . |
8 | Please reserve a place for me on the POTENTIAL TEACHERS DAY on Saturday 8th March , for which I enclose the fee of £5.00 . |
9 | My father looked after me on the long journey home , and sat with me for every minute . |
10 | The one thing Phil is still learning is how to cope when batsmen get after him on a good pitch . |
11 | Their conversation ceased as the eloquent tones of Michael Stein carried towards them on the public address system . |
12 | They crossed the road to face the oncoming traffic and had just passed a 40 mph speed limit sign when he looked over his shoulder and saw a car heading towards them on the wrong side of the road . |
13 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |
14 | She walked ahead of me on the narrow path ; she had slender legs and pretty ankles . |
15 | You could admire them from a safe distance , but you would n't want to run into one of them on a dark night at the crossroads . |
16 | There were more double doors at the end and in front of them on a tubular chair sat a uniformed constable reading the Sunday Express . |
17 | In the United Kingdom in 1988 , there were 1298 publicly maintained nursery schools catering for some 98,000 children , 82% of them on a part-time basis . |
18 | Of importance here is the fact that 14 interviewees ( 23 per cent ) were regular users of another opioid , principally Diconal , eight of them on a daily basis . |
19 | Another reason for our inability to give accurate figures is due to the prevalence of several other types of population movement , some of them on a huge scale , although extended over a longer period . |
20 | provide an opportunity for the debriefing of students , discussing both the work supervisor 's and tutor 's assessment of them on an individual basis . |
21 | But I 've seen a few of them on the slippery slope — the Shiny Set , the stars , the Washington |
22 | I can hear the two of them on the narrow stair outside , Summerchild placing his feet with ostentatious care on each step , bending his head rather further than is strictly necessary under the low ceiling , while Serafin demonstrates his effortless familiarity with such picturesque difficulties . |
23 | There was one of them on the other side of the street . |
24 | There have been before the present application which was approved , there have been applications refused because the Oxford City Planning Committee were concerned particularly about er access and parking arrangements , and the effects of the extensions er on the front of the building , er very close to Sandy Lane , by the impact of those buildings in particular on residential amenity , on the houses and the occupants of them on the other side of Sandy Lane . |
25 | The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October . |
26 | He bombarded Burghley with schemes for exploiting Newfoundland in 1585 and 1586 , interestingly proposing the financing of one of them on the tontine principle , but they involved impractical proposals , as the international fishery could not be controlled by any one country except at vast expense . |
27 | Markby nodded towards the line of people ahead of them on the flagged pathway to the church door . |
28 | She lay on her back on the grass within the avenue made by the great standing stones , between the ninth and tenth of them on the northern side . |
29 | After all , the Minister is surrounded by a large number of them on the Conservative Benches . |
30 | It was strange , his feeling of contentment , sitting here in this garden , empty coffee cups in front of them on the white table . |