Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I contemplate a quick thirty minutes in my sleeping bag , but by the time I 've checked on the sentries again it 's too late . |
| 2 | " Many 's the time I 've stood on the terraces at Ibrox . " |
| 3 | I 've fallen on the stairs . |
| 4 | I 've lived on the streets since I was a child , cold , hungry , among people who are always drunk and fighting . |
| 5 | I 've gone through phases when I had seven effects pedals in front of me and then I 've concentrated on the pedals rather than my playing , and that 's wrong . ’ |
| 6 | These are what I 've got on the disks you see . |
| 7 | The Australian kookaburra has a very distinctive call , which I am sure I have heard on the soundtracks of films from other locations in Africa , South America or the Florida Everglades . |
| 8 | For the last few years I have sat on the sidelines watching bolt-protected climbing mushrooming throughout the USA , Europe and , not least , Britain : in quarries , but also , let's be completely truthful , on natural crags . |
| 9 | I have concentrated on the articles , ‘ Notes towards a Definition of Culture ’ , rather than the less tentatively titled Notes towards the Definition of Culture because the book , while refining and adding to the argument , occludes that argument 's clarity through continual divagation and a tendency to over-engage in discussion with Eliot 's own contemporaries , many now forgotten . |
| 10 | If any readers would like to receive a free copy of an information sheet I have produced on the types of environmental audits and what they can achieve they should write to me at the address below : |
| 11 | Or , if you 've over-ordered on the chestnuts for your turkey stuffing , how about chestnut soup ? |
| 12 | If you have relied on the services of external designers to produce artwork it is foolish to imagine that internal staff with no training can achieve similar results . |
| 13 | Once you have decided on the questions you want to ask , you should draw up a chart like A on which you can record customer 's responses quickly , simply by ticking or filling in the appropriate column . |
| 14 | When we 've decided on the names , we then have to find the best person to approach for each potential guest , and that can be like a detective job . |
| 15 | lists we 've pencilled on the backs of envelopes . |
| 16 | Could I tell your listeners a little bit about the good news that 's in the budget , because we 've talked we 've focused on the minuses so far , but there 's a lot of plusses as well . |
| 17 | Now , you 'll notice the numbers in the brackets are some indication of the amount of time that we spent , the relative amount of time that we 've spent on the subjects . |
| 18 | Yeah we divided them all up , but if me or Jan needed to refer to anything we 'd recognize the information that we 've put on the envelopes quicker than we 'll recognize the stuff that he 's put in there |
| 19 | my Lord the fifth point in relation to question three , C , we 've always understood this to be a threshold bond , we 've concentrated on the words capable in law in relation to section fourteen , there are two ways of viewing this and your Lordship will clearly have to take a view on whether er one or both of these is a proper issue under clause three , C one , first of all is , is , is section fourteen itself capable of restricting the competition , is it in itself a restriction of competition , well we took your Lordship the C B R case , the case of the commission in which an ouster clause was held to infringe article eighty five , because of it 's interrelationship with the other restrictions and so section fourteen is bad if the other restrictions are made out as a matter of competition law , that we say is a question of fact and we therefore answer that part of three C by saying it 's not capable in law |
| 20 | ‘ Being in Brighton has been beneficial to all of us , the food is good and we have trained on the Downs , ’ said Tolstikov , who could have expected more recognition at home following last year 's London win but instead found life harder , not better . |
| 21 | We have decided on the cuts as a result of strong competition from Mercury , whose prices until now have been around 20 per cent lower than ours . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Have we not all , ’ he heard himself saying from the pulpit , ‘ as we have gazed on the ruins of the mighty Colosseum … = ’ Well , a few more of his congregation would have done that by then . |
| 23 | In fact it is not — it is a gloss which we have imposed on the accounts and stories they have provided . |
| 24 | Throughout , we have drawn on the records of accounts and observations amassed through our fieldwork and ordered through working papers to illustrate the argument , and where appropriate to make evaluative comments along the way . |
| 25 | Time/space travellers make audio tapes of the sounds and rhythms they have heard on the voyages . |
| 26 | For the same reason they have focused on the groups who seemed most likely to be needy : the working class in the inner city , the isolated and the institutionalized . |