Example sentences of "on [pos pn] [noun] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LAST September a 56-page typescript arrived on my desk at the BBC in Edinburgh . |
| 2 | should we , should we look at say the first Friday after the middle of January , something of that sort , I , I have n't got a calendar on my desk at the moment I 'm afraid , but erm |
| 3 | But like just for you to know that , I mean , at the moment , got a slight shortage of staff and , us little Express girlies are like , we 're all sort of desperate to please them well , and because we need to , if a customer rings we 're always there for them and the problem is , I 've got like two phones on my desk at the moment , so , I could guarantee the minute I put my phone down , if anybody else is on the phone ha , bloody phone 's still ringing , I have got to answer it . |
| 4 | In a moment of high fervour I had offered to talk to that Mafia of old , the Winchester Quakers , on my experiences at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre . |
| 5 | The police had found somebody who had seen me on my island at the time of the murder , and so the judge let me go free . |
| 6 | The Minister of State — my right hon. Friend the Member for Oxford , West and Abingdon ( Mr. Patten ) — attended a meeting on my behalf at The Hague on 2 and 3 December this year . |
| 7 | He started shouting for help and about ten or fifteen minutes later , two chaps arrived and a couple of torches shone down on my father at the bottom . |
| 8 | But there 's something else playing on my mind at the minute . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've other things on my mind at the minute . ’ |
| 10 | I happen to have a great deal on my mind at the moment . |
| 11 | ‘ In fact , making love to you is just about the very last thing on my mind at the moment . ’ |
| 12 | on my street at the moment . |
| 13 | ‘ Eric is No 1 on my list at the moment . |
| 14 | ( 4 ) Many tenants object to forfeiture provisions applying where distress or execution has been levied on its goods at the premises , as even in the best run organisations this sometimes occurs and it is not always an indication that the tenant is in financial difficulty . |
| 15 | And if it 's coming from the farthest reaches of space — where the tide of expansion flows really fast-it will still not have reached us — even though it started out on its journey at the beginning of the Universe , thousands of millions of years ago . ’ |
| 16 | Moderator in commending these reports to the general assembly and in particular , in presenting its work on ritual abuse , the Board is conscious of its deep indebtedness to those who have looked on its behalf at the mixture of evidence and conjecture on this most disturbing area of modern human depravity . |
| 17 | Mr Tony Cove , Pilkington 's public relations manager , said : ‘ Fortunately we opened a new production line recently and the building industry is down on its orders at the moment , so we have been able to cope . ’ |
| 18 | The government , when it spends this £1 billion , pays with cheques drawn on its account at the Bank of England . |
| 19 | Now they could see the broad glitter or Loch Tay , and in the foreground their destination , the gable or Kenmore church perched on its knoll at the loch-end . |
| 20 | A white-fronted goose can be identified by the small white blaze on its face at the base of the bill . |
| 21 | More profoundly the influence of the Church depended on its penetration at every level of social life . |
| 22 | But once Mona , daughter of the PLO 's chief fund-raiser , had admitted that he had enjoyed a summer holiday on her money at the time of the Gulf crisis , the gap-toothed Lothario was on his bike . |
| 23 | Some of us were great courtesans very definitely , certainly Stella sitting on her stool at the bar , you 'd think she was in pearls the way she sat there . |
| 24 | A JILTED boyfriend distributed a video tape of his ex-lover having sex on her desk at a government office . |
| 25 | If Rune had n't insisted on her presence at the presentation she would still be in England . |
| 26 | It made the startled singer wan na Shout as loudly as her Sixties hit when it was plonked on her plate at a wedding feast by a mischievous magician . |
| 27 | Apart from which , she has enough on her plate at the moment . |
| 28 | As Fabia saw it then , if she did n't want her sister to heap coals of fire on her head when she got back — and Cara had more than enough on her plate at the moment — then she was going to have to be really pushy and go and ring Ven Gajdusek 's doorbell . |
| 29 | Speaking on the BBC radio he said : ‘ We realise that the Queen has enough problems on her plate at the moment . |
| 30 | I think that if any one else could , because I do know that she has got an amazing amount of work on her plate at the moment |