Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are local people who support the school … many of whom shoot on the site . |
| 2 | The programmed is likely to displace some 15,000 Auyu tribal people , most of whom depend on the forest as hunter-gatherers or rubber tappers . |
| 3 | They were to have three children ; Will junior , Gladys ( both of whom went on the stage ) , and Joan . |
| 4 | Prices of industrial products doubled this week and rising prices of bread , milk and meat will worsen the already fast-declining living standards of the population , two thirds of whom live on the poverty line or below . |
| 5 | There was one of them caressing on the beach at Crystal Springs , and another of the glamorous couple wrapped around each other in the crystal-clear water of the hotel beach . |
| 6 | One of them remarked on the scent . ’ |
| 7 | However , according to eye-witnesses , at about 6am soldiers ordered the workers from the outbuilding where they lived , forced some of them to kneel on the ground and then shot them . |
| 8 | Very few women took part in training , which was surprising when one considers how important a part many of them played on the farm . |
| 9 | Outside the months of breeding all but a few species disappear to wintering grounds well south of the Arctic Circle ; thus the arctic has over 150 species of breeding land birds , but only eight of them reside on the tundra all the year round . |
| 10 | This book established Kitto as a writer , and in the following years , he wrote a number of books — many of them based on the Scripture , including the work which is still regarded as the best of its kind , Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature . |
| 11 | It is interesting to note that , although Sylvia was able to recall the events of that fateful afternoon and to describe in great detail the sights , sounds and emotions which prevailed , she had no idea at all of how long the two of them lay on the ground before her mother regained consciousness . |
| 12 | The strength , durability and weight of them depends on the weight of fabric used and how much coating has been applied . |
| 13 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |
| 14 | It took different forms ; , but all of them turn on the idea that ‘ God ’ means something like ‘ supremely perfect being ’ , and that supreme perfection must include the fact of actual existence . |
| 15 | Not only are there vines as far as the eye can see from its brand-new winemaking centre in Vertus , but the company also owns nearly 310 acres of its own vineyards , most of them sited on the Côte des Blancs . |
| 16 | But then , most of them relied on the head men , we used to tell them you see , to keep their mouth shut . |
| 17 | With the command he grasped Jess 's arm and hauled her to her feet , then shook her like a piece of crumpled linen , both of them swaying on the edge of the hatchway . |
| 18 | The tethered owl , deliberately employed as a decoy , attracted the flock of small birds to the spot , where many of them alighted on the branches of the nearby tree . |
| 19 | They were passed down father-to-son from Father 's great-great-grandfather to him , and every one of them acted on the pageants , father and son . |
| 20 | Some of them sat on the grass , smoked cigarettes and watched the organizers ' bumbling attempts to set the rally in progress . |
| 21 | The area has a large common seal population , and there are always lots of them lying on the rocks or swimming in the sea . |
| 22 | Significantly , several of them focused on the threat of VAT on books . |
| 23 | Raising a glass to each other on their retirement from John Murray last month after a combined total of 88 years representing the company , many of them spent on the road , were left , John Harbour , who joined the company in 1944 , and Ron Church , with just over 40 years of service under his belt . |
| 24 | However , I only put a few dozen sheets of paper through the machine , and two of them caught on the wire loop , which creased the paper and caused ink smudges where the machine was still printing . |
| 25 | That had seemed natural to Stephen , the way things should be : his father working and then emerging from his work , all three of them walking on the beach , or walking to Badstoneleigh to go to the Pavilion , or having tea on Stephen 's birthday in the Spinning Wheel , or going to see Somerset play . |
| 26 | A creative use for a pair of extension microphones used for recording location sound in stereo is to position one of them to concentrate on the foreground sound , leaving the pick-up of more general background sound to the other microphone . |
| 27 | Neither of them spoke on the way out , and the only obviously awkward moment was when Marc put out a hand to open the door and she bumped into him . |
| 28 | Both are respectable men and one of them worked on the facility at Faslane for eight months . |
| 29 | Most of them work on the arts pages and do n't know much about the rest of the paper . |
| 30 | He was thus naturally concerned when , in 1696 , sitting in a London tavern , he was informed that a ship , the ‘ Constant ’ , was the second of his to founder on the Eddystone Rocks off Plymouth Sound . |