Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv prt] on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kadets had won the largest block of deputies to the First Duma , they had enjoyed the spectacle of leading figures in the government sounding them out on the terms on which they would enter the cabinet ; power seemed almost within their grasp . |
| 2 | She told him about the latest developments from Zurich while dressing the wound , filling him in on the backgrounds of Hendrique and Milchan as well as relaying Philpott 's instructions . |
| 3 | Long periods of enforced solitude as a semi-invalid threw him back on the resources of his own imagination , and after reading Hindoo Holiday , by J. R. Ackerley [ q.v. ] , |
| 4 | Yet for a short time his arrival at Oxford threw him back on the hunkers of his class and family . |
| 5 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 6 | Ward 's side had been fighting it out on the streets with the IPLO 's Dublin-based Army Council in a row over drug money . |
| 7 | The irony that the rioters mostly destroyed their own pathetic neighbourhood infrastructure has been widely noted , but it was not always for want of trying to take it out on the redoubts of the better element , stretching north up through Beverly Hills , over Mulholland , down into the San Fernando Valley and north again towards the suburban fastnesses of Simi Valley and of Ventura County . |
| 8 | TV chef Raymond Blanc lets us in on the secrets of his kitchen |
| 9 | In the evening we had a very enjoyable meal at the Captain 's table and Captain Lemaire filled us in on the delights of Martinque , our next port of call . |