Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No disrespect to my conveyancing brethren but I would n't let them loose on a guilty plea of going the wrong way round a keep left sign . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’ |
| 4 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You see , Great-Aunt Jane was a skilled dressmaker and made clothes for quite a number of young ladies in Baldersdale , and it was usual for them to try on the new clothes and have the final fittings in the kitchen . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We are currently in discussion with the TECs about their budget and I do not think that it would be appropriate for me to comment on the particular circumstances of my hon. Friend 's local TEC . |
| 10 | These are ancient divisions of the territory , recognized for centuries past as distinct pays , but you are unlikely to find them entered on a modern map , so I should apologize for introducing what will seem like obsolete names . |
| 11 | There are a few places in the States , but there 's no federal policy to get them organised on a big-money basis and all the little local pressure groups keep them harassed and staying small . |
| 12 | Two external consultants helped them focus on the key issues . |
| 13 | I flash on the special branch : sleepless interrogations in windowless cells . |
| 14 | 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 , |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I do n't mean just on Road incidentally , I mean on the whole range of traffic calming demands . |
| 18 | I mean on the seaward side ? ’ |
| 19 | How can I think on an empty stomach ? ’ |
| 20 | But I have to confess that what I save on the weedless swings , I lose on the rampant roundabouts . |
| 21 | If you get the limited edition of Let's Knife , you too can Singalongaknife with the free karaoke CD : I am a sweet little cat/ and I dance on a flying saucer … |
| 22 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 23 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
| 24 | I sit on the lower deck with my soft holdall heavy at my feet , behind two laughing women from Jamaica swapping advice about knitting . |
| 25 | I sit on the first island to photograph the kayaks heading north into the last of the sun , then refloat again to join them . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | All was going well until I knelt on the front overlap . |
| 28 | ( 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 . ) |
| 29 | I knelt on the wooden floor in the East Yorkshire winter praying , " Dear God if you exist let me be warmed . " |
| 30 | I knelt on the top step and poked my head through , near the bottom of the gap … |