Example sentences of "of [pron] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked ahead of me on the narrow path ; she had slender legs and pretty ankles . |
| 2 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 3 | But I 've seen a few of them on the slippery slope — the Shiny Set , the stars , the Washington |
| 4 | I can hear the two of them on the narrow stair outside , Summerchild placing his feet with ostentatious care on each step , bending his head rather further than is strictly necessary under the low ceiling , while Serafin demonstrates his effortless familiarity with such picturesque difficulties . |
| 5 | There was one of them on the other side of the street . |
| 6 | There have been before the present application which was approved , there have been applications refused because the Oxford City Planning Committee were concerned particularly about er access and parking arrangements , and the effects of the extensions er on the front of the building , er very close to Sandy Lane , by the impact of those buildings in particular on residential amenity , on the houses and the occupants of them on the other side of Sandy Lane . |
| 7 | The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October . |
| 8 | He bombarded Burghley with schemes for exploiting Newfoundland in 1585 and 1586 , interestingly proposing the financing of one of them on the tontine principle , but they involved impractical proposals , as the international fishery could not be controlled by any one country except at vast expense . |
| 9 | Markby nodded towards the line of people ahead of them on the flagged pathway to the church door . |
| 10 | And if you ever came up with eight of them on the one coupon , you could also mark X in the box for no publicity as you made plans to spend , spend , spend . |
| 11 | These shepherds live wild , most of them on the same mountain just outside Florence , in abandoned houses which often have no light or running water . |
| 12 | She lay on her back on the grass within the avenue made by the great standing stones , between the ninth and tenth of them on the northern side . |
| 13 | After all , the Minister is surrounded by a large number of them on the Conservative Benches . |
| 14 | It was strange , his feeling of contentment , sitting here in this garden , empty coffee cups in front of them on the white table . |
| 15 | Nearby is Villa Taranto , famous for having over 20,000 plants and trees on display , many of them on the endangered list . |
| 16 | He had been retired since 1979 after completing 42 years ' service — 12 of them on the main board . |
| 17 | Victor Wellington said there was a ring of yours on the dead woman 's left hand . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I thought I would leave a few of you on the G'bai side of the mountains with the pack beasts . |
| 19 | I 'll have to spirit you away to my cave , and dispose of you on the white-slave market , just like wicked old Hasan . ’ |
| 20 | Constance never forgot standing in front of one on the main staircase . |
| 21 | Sometimes he was even prevailed upon to stay for dinner , which was usually a casual meal with everyone grouped around Faye and the wheeled tray that was placed in front of her on the padded lounge seat where she spent so much of her time . |
| 22 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
| 23 | ‘ And there … ’ she stood up and walked round the table , placing the browning photograph firmly in front of him on the bright red and white of the American-cloth table cover , ‘ there 's … ’ she pointed to a figure dimly glimpsed beside a pillar in the background . |
| 24 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 25 | Faldo had to wait until the ‘ 89 Masters before he could catch up with Lyle and maybe the picture of him on the 11th green , the second hole of a sudden-death play-off with Scott Hoch , encapsulates Europe 's men in the majors in the Eighties . |
| 26 | They both took lookout positions on opposite sides of the roof , and although Charlie could still hear the sound of the battle , he was quite unable to make out who was getting the better of it on the other side of the forest . |
| 27 | I 've felt for sometime we needed to put more pressure on Welsh Office ministers who I feel are having a pretty easy time of it on the environmental front . |
| 28 | In addition , the deal covering the Walter-Guillaume donation ( handled by Jacques Walter after his father 's accidental death ) implied that the international nature of his own private collection — his right to dispose of it on the international market in other words — should be respected and the French State show itself ‘ worthy ’ of the gift . |
| 29 | Over a quarter of a century , most of it on the front bench . |
| 30 | Did you catch any of it on the local telly ? ’ |