Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [be] [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many of them are based on wordplay , puns . ’ |
| 2 | Champ , panada ( bread and milk ) , slim bread ( potato bread ) , porridge of various kinds , soda farls , oatcakes , apple dumplings — all were popular , most of them being based on bread and potatoes . |
| 3 | ‘ Most of them were burnt on Armistice Day , ’ admitted Becky . |
| 4 | Bans on five of them were lifted on Oct. 7 . |
| 5 | In fact , Flaherty thought it was a better idea than invoking the Draoicht Suan until it was explained to him that unless Pumlumon did invoke it , they would all of them be roasting on spits in the Gruagach 's sculleries before the night was out , to which he said that giants had always been partial to roast Gnome and he had always thought it was a mistake to come to Tara in the first place . |
| 6 | One of them was detonated on Aug. 14 about 50 km north of the city of León ; the line had already been closed by the railway authorities . |
| 7 | I pointed out , for instance , that a lot of the criticism of her is founded on jealousy . |
| 8 | The paper is much more tentative because some of it is based on evidence which has not always been gathered from studies designed specifically to elicit people 's conceptions in the mind . |
| 9 | ‘ Labour 's £600m would not help primary or secondary schools as most of it is going on nursery education or restoring student grants . ’ |
| 10 | As national income rises , some of it is spent on imports and this is equivalent to a rise in other countries ' exports . |
| 11 | The administration of each territory was finely tuned and certain aspects of it were recorded on clay tablets at the urban centres . |
| 12 | Some of us are going on holiday . |
| 13 | Oh , just one little notice I do have that erm several of us are going on Thursday to the , on the trip to Docklands by the erm erm Rotary Club of Sawbridgeworth erm I 'm told that there are still one or two odd seats if anybody wants to come at the last minute er , he does n't anticipate he 's going to erm fill them so even if , late Wednesday night you suddenly find you are available , by all means , contact and I 'm sure it can be arranged . |