Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to focus here on an ‘ affordable ’ way of reaching a maximum number of teachers with this aim , i.e. the group consultative training approach . |
| 2 | I want to comment briefly on the Government 's proposals and to support wholeheartedly the new clauses and amendments tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) . |
| 3 | However , I want to concentrate here on the technical work that the Faculty does on behalf , not only of its members , but of the Institute membership as a whole . |
| 4 | I decided to go alone on the Sunday morning . |
| 5 | In my teens I had lived precariously on the lip of first class rugby by virtue of knowing every trick in the canon , evil and otherwise , by being a bad bad loser , but chiefly and perhaps only because I was very nippy off the mark . |
| 6 | ( Now was not the time to say that I had danced only on the boards of my Leeds bedroom … ) |
| 7 | This was a joy for me as I had puzzled often on the jumble of tops visible from the A82 and in the mass of high peaks this area contains . |
| 8 | I did not often take part in the passeggiata because soon after school ended I had to go home on the tram , but sometimes a schoolfriend of mine called Wilma used to invite me to stay the night if there was a lot of homework to be done . |
| 9 | I 've worked hard on the ‘ proper English ’ accent and with Kenneth 's help , got rid of the Yorkshire ‘ u ’ sound — as in bus — but had a little trouble with the ‘ ay ’ sound — as in fade . |
| 10 | Erm what I 've mentioned then on the handout is some stuff about um er the business of traumagenic dynamics and the possibility that some of the consequences of child sex abuse cold be thought of as as er post-traumatic stress disorder . |
| 11 | I have survived only on the fantastic loyalty of players and fans . |
| 12 | ‘ Your place is miles across the city , and I have to come home on the bus every night , so there 'll be no meeting in the evenings . ’ |
| 13 | Other seed baits I have used successfully on the Severn are tares and maple peas , but I have not used the latter two very often and do not yet know if they are going to be consistently successful . |
| 14 | Also , although I did n't know the place , I suspected that most of the low-lying shore would dry out , and I wanted to go there on the flood . |
| 15 | And he said : ‘ Do you want to go forward on a charge on that ? ’ |
| 16 | Do you want to go ahead on the lines which have brought prosperity at home ? |
| 17 | The type of hedging plant you choose depends partly on the amount of annual maintenance you are prepared to undertake . |
| 18 | But if you choose to dwell only on the aspects of life you find upsetting , you may not experience as much joy as you could . |
| 19 | Perhaps the toner fluid intoxicated her — there were over a hundred sheets to copy — or maybe it was the lack of air in the photocopying room , but after we had done and she had commented favourably on the comprehensive and detailed nature of the notes , she asked me to go out with her . |
| 20 | It was Christmas Eve and Agnes had wondered over the last few days if she had heard aright on the night she had gone to the closet , because the next morning her father had come blithely into the kitchen and said , ‘ Your mother is having a lie-in this morning ; take her a cup of tea along and a bit of toast . |
| 21 | She had leaned forward on the grassy bank and she was speaking and I could n't remember what she was saying . |
| 22 | She was at the age when many women are at their physical best : tall , thin , but shapely ; smart , but not too dauntingly so ; fragrant ( a touch of Poison ) ; and fun : she had mastered early on the necessary female skill of charity towards her suitors ' jokes . |
| 23 | She went upstairs and picked up a hairbrush — Alice 's brush that she had left behind on the chest of drawers . |
| 24 | She had concentrated hard on the mundane chores , hoping , unsuccessfully , to keep Nathan Bryce out of her thoughts . |
| 25 | On the window was a blue-and-red peacock she had stencilled there on a wet afternoon when the garden was blanked out with grey rain . |
| 26 | The choice of food you prepare depends partly on the patient 's taste as to the food he prefers , partly on his eating abilities or difficulties , and partly on dietary needs such as avoiding putting on weight . |
| 27 | She would say that she wanted to walk alone on the headland . |
| 28 | You have kept accurately on the direct track and maintained a steady height . |
| 29 | That was only if on that Thur on that Mon Thursday and Friday if you have to stay away on the Wednesday night and the Thursday night then we cover that . |
| 30 | I We 'd talked about it and said Well , we 're not going to get married whilst war 's on , as er probably the generation before , had said in nineteen fourteen , and er we got married eventually on the first of December , nineteen forty . |