Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , as argued here before , is the one question capable of splitting the Tory Party , at least to the extent of creating factions with a passionate attachment to their prejudices , and no great reluctance to insist on them even at the cost of deep party division . |
| 2 | There was no board outside proclaiming it to be a guest house , or hotel , so if it was n't , and they only took in private guests , or friends , she could hardly go dumping herself on them just on the recommendation of someone called Annie , could she ? |
| 3 | Once in her suite of rooms she sat down at a little Louis Quinze escritoire , its pale grey panels painted with carnations and pinks , and wrote a short letter to her faithless lover , asking him to call on her urgently at the embassy at eleven the next morning . |
| 4 | The village boys had caught the cassowary that morning , coming on her suddenly in the bush and chasing her down a long slope . |
| 5 | From the age of eight he began at 5 a.m. despite being so small that special pattens had to be made to enable him to reach the machinery , and he bore the scars of the corporal punishment inflicted on him there for the rest of his life . |
| 6 | No he 's got a grey jumper with an owl Beaky on it all over the front and a mortar board on the owl . |
| 7 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
| 8 | Cos it 's got a handle on it now at the front here round the other side |
| 9 | The Gods smiled on us later in the afternoon with perfect conditions and a gentle 10mph wind stroking the hillside . |