Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] on [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember thinking all numbers look the same , none of them mean anything on their own , but when you string them together they have a sort of magic to them , they 're an incantation like witches sing when they circle round the cauldron cackling . |
| 2 | Let me update you on my social security saga . |
| 3 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 4 | I met him on my last visit to Glasgow recently : a jolly , likeable man today . |
| 5 | Red 2 experienced no return fire , on either of his attacks , and I experienced none on my second attack , during which I closed range to 100 yds and concentrated on engines of E/A with no visible effect . |
| 6 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 7 | I wear mine on my right hand as well but then I am odd in all sorts of ways . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I know exactly what you hoped , ’ Alexandra said , ‘ and I like him on his own . |
| 9 | I congratulate him on his robust stance in defence of British farmers , particularly those producing lamb , in stark contrast to the attitude of Labour Members , who wobble on everything . |
| 10 | I made on the deal , but when I switched it on my first thought was : uh-oh . |
| 11 | I felt it on my own … ’ |
| 12 | I use it on my little finger and my fingers are real thin . |
| 13 | I complimented him on his artistic prowess as a surgeon ; he smiled . |
| 14 | No I kept it on its own . |
| 15 | ‘ Then it would obviously be best if I leave you on your own until you 're in a more reasonable mood , ’ he said , walking towards the door . |
| 16 | I did it on my own . |
| 17 | ( I got a bent line if I did it on my own , but here was one to follow . ) |
| 18 | I left you on your own all day yesterday . ’ |
| 19 | How come you got it on your own then ? |
| 20 | If you want it on your hard disk , you 've got to get your hands dirty in DOS to create a directory and copy the files from the floppy disk into it . |
| 21 | The other concern in the City Council 's evidence on H One er is this issue of distribution , I note Mr Davis 's comments about the difficulties of subdividing the Greater York allocation between different districts , and I I do acknowledge the difficulty in relation to Harrogate , and particularly Hambledon which obviously has a very small proportion of Greater York , on the other hand both Ryedale and Selby do contain a substantial proportion of the Greater York population , er based on my calculations of their er proportion of the population of Greater York which admittedly is a somewhat crude way of of doing estimates , but in the absence of of any other projections that was really the only way to do it , my estimate is that the er compared with the nine seven target of County Council would take in the could potentially be seen to be taking a share of four thousand two hundred in Ryedale and seventeen hundred for Selby , if you base it on their existing population distribution on er part outside the city , now I 'm not saying necessarily that 's how the way you would do it , but I I think it 's an indication that the scale of development in those two districts is quite significant in Greater York , our concern is that the policy as it currently stands does not give any real guidance as to the way in which distribution of development outside the city , but in Greater York , erm can be er should be di divided up , and I think the problem really occurs from the introduction of the new settlement into H One , erm I do n't want to stray into the H Two debate Chair , but I think it 's the fact that H One does include a figure for the new settlement , that the new settlement is not located within any particular district , but that all the district totals do include in effect a figure which is undetermined at this stage , that that would be absorbed by the new settlement , as I understand the policy at the moment , and I think that really does introduce a problem , erm because clearly all of the emerging districts wide local plans could be in conformity with the structure plan and not include the new settlement , I think it 's er interesting to note that the the D O E's recently published a good practice guide , on development plans , did particularly highlight the situation in Greater York , as a problem , as a shortcoming of the existing plan , and if I can just quote it , it does say this , on page forty three , it would seem appropriate for broad locations of new development to be established by means of an alteration to the structure plan . |
| 22 | She stuck it on her bleeding finger . |
| 23 | She congratulated herself on her improving powers of deduction . |
| 24 | She pinched herself on her left biceps and yelped with pain . |
| 25 | That 's what I 'm saying , right , now , what I 'm saying is there 's a , that , that , is , there 's , there 's , there 's , there 's things , there 's things , there 's guides to be able to do that , right , and the guide is there 's certain things you do and certain things you do n't do , because what you do basically is that you close him on his final objection which is what you 're just saying you did , right , but you close him on his final objection , how did you manage to close him on his final objection ? |
| 26 | That 's what I 'm saying , right , now , what I 'm saying is there 's a , that , that , is , there 's , there 's , there 's , there 's things , there 's things , there 's guides to be able to do that , right , and the guide is there 's certain things you do and certain things you do n't do , because what you do basically is that you close him on his final objection which is what you 're just saying you did , right , but you close him on his final objection , how did you manage to close him on his final objection ? |
| 27 | so you close him on his final objection , you listen , you then sell him his objection , right , you sell him his objection , right , you confirm his answer , right , whatever he says to you and his answer you actually confirm it back to him , you do n't interrupt him , right , you do n't guess where he 's at , right and basically if work through a system you 'll get on there , now for me to be able to , to , to , what I 've just said to you is a load of garbage , but if I was sitting I was sitting actually go through each one of these steps and that 's what you term as a closing sequence , you see what I mean ? |
| 28 | Should n't you put it on your urgent list right now ? |
| 29 | She put them on his broad , bony shoulders . |
| 30 | I still have that little book of selected poems you gave me on my twelfth birthday . |