Example sentences of "on [pron] [noun] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just you tap away , Mr Auguste , and if you 'it the little feller on 'is back you 'll 'ear 'is 'ollow sound like . ’ |
| 2 | If ol' Desmond D knocked on my door I 'd go out of this life the way I came in : kicking and screaming . |
| 3 | If I had a swelling like that come up on my ankle I 'd say right go to the doctors . |
| 4 | If I came out of the changing-room with a bin-liner round my waist and a lampshade on my head he 'd say that they suited me . |
| 5 | on my head you can call me Normal Lamont . |
| 6 | If I had put a tea cosy on my head I would have been a dead ringer for Mrs Pankhurst , but it affected my behaviour even more than my looks . |
| 7 | As I lie on my bed I can feel it coming in the window . |
| 8 | I know from experience that if I approached their hives with scented lotion on my hair it would make them angry . ’ |
| 9 | If it 'd depended on my father we 'd have been dead years ago . |
| 10 | BELVILLE : Now you are on my side I will leave you . |
| 11 | On my birthday I 'll start them . |
| 12 | At the far end of the street , where the beach curved into an arc — and where the water was far enough away from the slops of Main Street — there on my right I could see a grove of coconut palms behind the beach , almost bending over the sand like a canopy as they leaned against the trade winds . |
| 13 | Look at the toes of its front feet and if you discover fur on its nails you will know for sure there is another rabbit still to be captured . |
| 14 | I am very much in favour of doing that and I guess that since this conference has got the environment on its agenda we may hope to hear bright new suggestions of how to avoid dilemmas of that kind . |
| 15 | And when she 's go , when she 's having having a good time she ta , she 's like one of the nurses you know , she helps them out but when she 's on her downer she 'll sit there and she wo n't do anything |
| 16 | But on her face she could get a |
| 17 | If Kate had n't had so much on her mind she would have laughed at her mother 's scandalised voice . |
| 18 | Dora , naturally , was in good spirits and with Fortune on her side she could afford to be magnanimous . |
| 19 | It was understood that on their return they would have tea on Grace . |
| 20 | Many mujaheddin leaders were reported to be abroad and it was thought that Mujjaddedi , leader of the smallest mujaheddin group as well as of an influential Sufi brotherhood , was trying to delay stepping down in the hope that on their return they would support his continuation in office . |
| 21 | Many of our residents have enjoyed the hospitality and entertainment courtesy of Matron Elder and on their behalf we should like to express our appreciation , and to thank all concerned for including us in their celebrations . |
| 22 | There simply are such ‘ indicative ’ signs , and they are presented to us in sense-experience ; on their basis we can reason to the hidden things which they ‘ indicate ’ . |
| 23 | The French government , which is overseeing the experiments and contributing part of the cost , will decide this year on which system it will base its national network for electronic cash , which computer companies have inevitably dubbed monetique ’ . |
| 24 | Erm that is er we agree on which company we might feel er you 're going to be happiest in environmentally terms . |
| 25 | Additionally , the nurses can be given responsibility for determining how they will allocate the hours between themselves and on which days they will report for duty . |
| 26 | It would have depended on which hospital he 'd have been sent to . |
| 27 | If you had headphones on you Pam you can hear everything . |
| 28 | She is one of several on whose services I may call from time to time . |
| 29 | Thibaud V was held by John of Salisbury to be one of the most learned lawyers of his day ; Philip of Alsace was a man of rare competence ; other princes gathered around them their band of learned advisers , their counsellors on whose pronouncements they could depend . |
| 30 | We went to see Colin Wakeham to ask him on whose authority he 'd run the competiton . |