Example sentences of "[noun pl] on [pers pn] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | She borrows books on it from the local library and copies out old patterns . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There are to be two features on her in the illustrated papers , Uncle Lionel says . |
| 8 | I recently bought a Series III 1979 lightweight with 19,000 miles on it through the British Army auction here in Hong Kong . |