Example sentences of "[noun pl] on [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They had been working all the evening , sewing Rosie 's wedding-dress , and it would be terribly unlucky if the bridegroom set eyes on it before the great day . |
2 | Many advice workers are unaware that they have had a democratic part in the policy decisions that have adopted these training requirements and some even see these demands on them as a personal affront . |
3 | Ralph Downes , who helped with the instrument 's design , made some Pye Nixa recordings on it in the earliest days of stereo ( 1958 ) to show just how effective this spatial effect could be in the music of Bach . |
4 | She borrows books on it from the local library and copies out old patterns . |
5 | The latter spends much of the evening dressed in drag as a Restoration Avon Lady , and the scene in which Sir Formal makes violent amorous advances on him in a darkened cellar is the crowning glory of this marvellously entertaining show . |
6 | Friends insisted last night that reports of a bitter row over the Maastricht Treaty with senior ministers , or that the vicious attacks on him by the anti-European Tories had driven him out , were wrong . |
7 | He complained of increased media attacks on him by the Moldavian Communist Party under its new first secretary Grigory Yeremey [ for whose appointment see above ] , featuring allegations that his administration was failing to protect party property ; of " back-stage scheming " against him in Moldavia 's Supreme Soviet ; and of his inability to work with republican Prime Minister Mircha Druk . |
8 | Elinor dreamily remembered what it was like to feel that your lover possessed all the wonderful qualities you wanted , before you realized that he did n't possess them , and that perhaps you had forced those qualities on him in the first place . |
9 | There are to be two features on her in the illustrated papers , Uncle Lionel says . |
10 | Because in the poorer streets , if you saw — the neighbours in the street knew an old couple , they were too old to work … and if you saw an old blue van with a coat of arms on it with an old horse , old grey horse driven by an old grey man , drive up the street , stop outside the door , you knew that the old couple were on the way to the workhouse . |
11 | I recently bought a Series III 1979 lightweight with 19,000 miles on it through the British Army auction here in Hong Kong . |