Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pron] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Max Gate , the house Hardy designed for himself on the edge of town , is stranded behind a new roundabout and it is difficult now to imagine him setting out from there to ride along the lanes with Kipling or H. G. Wells . |
| 2 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 3 | His prosperity is shown by the ‘ magnificent dwelling house ’ which he built for himself on the north Thames frontage immediately to the east of the Fleet canal . |
| 4 | ‘ They disagreed with him on the size of the tax reduction . |
| 5 | Once a month we reported to them on the editorial , marketing and financial developments of the magazine . |
| 6 | He knelt beside her on the hearthrug . |
| 7 | Yes , I have n't brought the modular things I mentioned to you on the phone the other day but I think it would be very useful to sit down and look at structuring that |
| 8 | Mount Patrick appeared to have the race sewn up after he collared Radiant Monarch two out , but he stopped to nothing on the run-in and Ovac Star swept past . |
| 9 | It took no account of funding arrangements , parliamentary representation at Westminster or the position of the Secretary of State for Scotland , and the members of the convention disagreed among themselves on the number and sex of its members , the method of election and a number of other aspects affecting Scotland 's constitutional future . |
| 10 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 11 | Only I would have probably braked , changed down ended up in second and crept past it on the inside and then speeded up again . |
| 12 | And it seemed to them that there came against them on the part of the Christians full seventy thousand knights , all as white as snow : . |
| 13 | I was with the South African team throughout their travels in Australia and New Zealand and found them an exceptionally nice group ; agonized with them on the eve of the referendum on reforms back in South Africa when there were last-minute scare reports of a major swing to the right wing ; rejoiced with them when the vote when 68% for sanity , a far greater margin than any of us had dared hope for ; and generally enjoyed with them their victories and their considerable achievement in reaching the semi-final stage . |
| 14 | At the same time , the sound of distant gunfire , explosions and shouting came to him on the night breeze , somewhere off his right and muffled by the intervening trees . |
| 15 | It was an insight which came to her on the spur of the moment . |
| 16 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
| 17 | Kate stirred beside him on the sofa , and Peter smelled her perfume . |
| 18 | Holly saw his face as he passed behind him on the perimeter path , a face that was scraped with despair . |
| 19 | So she paid for it on the spot and took it home . |
| 20 | She turned towards him on the pew and put her hands up and caught his collar . |
| 21 | Yesterday a Teesside Crown Court jury was told by James Spencer QC , prosecuting : ‘ That lady survives today but she is permanently brain damaged and disabled and she is unable to say what happened to her on the morning on Wednesday , August 29 , 1990 . ’ |
| 22 | Nothing happened to me on the way to the theatre . |
| 23 | And it was girls in school then that s s you know when you started talking about , Ooh what happened to me on the beach and that . |
| 24 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 25 | He looked around him , aware of the traffic speeding up and down , of the people who walked past him on the pavement , of people coming out of McDonalds laden with fast food . |
| 26 | Equally , in the words of Lord Wright in Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills ( 1936 P.C. ) ‘ there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter ; a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description . ’ |
| 27 | As Lord Wright said in Grant v Australian Knitting Mills Ltd [ 1936 ] AC 85 : It may also be pointed out that there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter : a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description , eg woollen undergarments , a hot-water bottle , a second-hand reaping machine , to select a few obvious illustrations . |
| 28 | As I indicated to you on the phone on Friday , I believe it is appropriate that I formally review the position of the sale of your company following receipt of the indicative offers . |
| 29 | He walked beside them on the pavement , three abreast , so that pedestrians coming towards them had to step out into the street . |
| 30 | They talked about it on the way down in Goblander . |