Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What good is an educational system which fools youngsters into thinking they are much cleverer than they really are and lets them loose on the working world ( not that there 's much work there ) with worthless qualifications ? |
| 2 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 3 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 4 | The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , in the absence of all the facts , it is not possible for me to comment on the individual case , nor would I wish to do so in a public forum . |
| 6 | I flash on the special branch : sleepless interrogations in windowless cells . |
| 7 | Erm but I mean on the other hand if you start trying to develop your criteria , and I 'd go out and look at Botton Village and look at the Richmond Fellowship or something , |
| 8 | Well I du n no , I mean on the one hand in nine in nineteen forty five I think it was , they were saying you know well in order to do , have s s s successful land reform you need three conditions , they said the same thing in nineteen forty eight , they said you need this , this , this and then we have to be militarily secure but then in nineteen forty six they 're saying no , do n't worry about it , just get the land reform sorted out , just do it . |
| 9 | But it 's also fears that the Party itself is becoming too radical too , they always want to control two elements and I mean on the last page , point number sixteen it says that how that erm tt that how that the Communist Party members ought to refrain from securing undue benefits by taking advantage of their leading position . |
| 10 | I do n't mean just on Road incidentally , I mean on the whole range of traffic calming demands . |
| 11 | I mean on the seaward side ? ’ |
| 12 | I sit on the lower deck with my soft holdall heavy at my feet , behind two laughing women from Jamaica swapping advice about knitting . |
| 13 | I sit on the first island to photograph the kayaks heading north into the last of the sun , then refloat again to join them . |
| 14 | I sit on the wooden floor for a moment to gather my strength , also to decide exactly where I should take the relics to dispose of them . |
| 15 | All was going well until I knelt on the front overlap . |
| 16 | ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . ) |
| 17 | I knelt on the wooden floor in the East Yorkshire winter praying , " Dear God if you exist let me be warmed . " |
| 18 | I knelt on the top step and poked my head through , near the bottom of the gap … |
| 19 | Very , very quickly , can I just say , that in the er , consultat in the , in the work I did in the , which led to the production of the report , and the many , many people I talked to , some of whom I , I see around the table , I found on the one hand , ample evidence throughout the county authorities , the health authority , the district councils , and the voluntary sector , of much evidence of recognition of improved collaboration between agencies in delivery of community care in Shropshire . |
| 20 | MAX : I sleep on the right-hand side of my particular bed . |
| 21 | Checking a positive climb and flicking up the quick-retracting gear I concentrated on the slow process of building speed , getting the flaps in at 130 and maintaining a gentle increase in height with steady acceleration to 170 knots , when the nose can be raised for 3,000 fpm to show on the VSI as she really starts to go . |
| 22 | I had a feeling it would be for the best , I said , when I stopped on the hard shoulder that day . |
| 23 | I banged on the front door for ten minutes , getting colder and colder . |
| 24 | Therefore , it was not surprising that when I intervened on the hon. Member for Newham , North-East he was a little coy about referring to his party 's record on unemployment . |
| 25 | The first one is the one I played on the entire record of ‘ Question And Answer ’ . |
| 26 | Because the rate of cycle I depends on the local concentration of SO 2 , it shows a maximum in the SO 2 cloud . |
| 27 | A big grey five-year-old , Sunset And Vine jumped well in the Lily Tree Novice Hurdle and stormed home well clear looking a horse with a real future — some of it , I hope on the right channel . |
| 28 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 29 | I mean normally er this morning for instance , normally I park on the big car park down near the the river there , |
| 30 | ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again . |