Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.

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1 Different sort of people turn out on the hunting field these days , too .
2 Cromwell destroyed that liberty : he appointed twenty-seven fit and proper persons — schoolmasters , lawyers , ministers of religion , doctors ( the sort of people found nowadays on the regulatory bodies for broadcasting and video ) to censor public reading .
3 Well , Oxfam week 's principally aimed at a house , house to house collection Jane , so we shall be asking a whole lot of people to get out on the streets and to put envelopes through the doors in their neighbourhood and then to go back later on and collect money which we hope people will kindly give us .
4 There were 9 separate incidents in Oxford on saturday night and crowds of people turned up on the Blackbird Leys estate and in Rosehill to watch the stolen car displays .
5 There were 9 separate incidents in Oxford on saturday night and crowds of people turned up on the Blackbird Leys estate and in Rosehill to watch the stolen car displays .
6 There is no evidence that the Ministry of Works spent more on the public sewers than on the helpless , but they can scarcely have expended less money or effort on them .
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