Example sentences of "to [pers pn] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Candidates for an overseas assignment should have had the opportunity to digest all information given to them on the new job , country , life style , compensation package and effects on their careers and families before being interviewed for the post . |
| 2 | I have sat around tables with senior male television executives and listened to them on the one hand bemoan the lack of good women presenters and on the other make suggestions of possible women candidates so inappropriate as to be laughable . |
| 3 | This being the case we can talk back to them on the same basis and presumably they will understand . |
| 4 | A young woman sat with her back to me on the far side of the great fourposter bed . |
| 5 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 6 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 7 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |
| 8 | The three other prints will then be available to you on the same basis and each may be paid for in the same way . |
| 9 | He followed their swift line as together they swung low over the water and landed , the splash of their coming rippling softly back to him on the still air . |
| 10 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 11 | It was of no consequence ; Garland knew every step of the way and Mitch trotted ahead , pursuing an erratic course as he nosed out the rich odours brought to him on the moist air . |
| 12 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 13 | He had already acquired some ex-episcopal lands back in 1647–8 , in settlement of earlier debts owing to him on the public faith . |
| 14 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 15 | I walked back into the lounge and said , ‘ You clever girl ’ to Sally and sat close to her on the wide sofa . |
| 16 | After a while he took off her cardigan and his jersey and then the rest of their clothes , and made love to her on the folk-weave bedspread of her university bed . |
| 17 | Sara stood by the open window and the scent of tobacco plant was wafted strongly to her on the warm evening air . |
| 18 | She asserted that she had been done out of her rights to the ownership of Mrs Ferrar 's London house , which had been promised to her on the old lady 's death . |
| 19 | He was perfectly amiable to her on the few occasions when they did meet ; sometimes she even felt that he liked her . |
| 20 | Her mind slid over this problem and rejected it , her thoughts returning to memories of Johnny as he had been when he had attempted to make love to her on the previous night . |
| 21 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 22 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |
| 23 | He would pass Syl 's house on the way , since it stood close to ours on the same side of the private road , behind hedges of cypress and box , flanked by lawns garnished with birch and all manner of ornamental trees . |
| 24 | He is indeed , as John Taylor has aptly called him , ‘ the go-between God ’ , for he both takes the things of God and makes them real to us on the one hand , and takes our faint longings and prayers and brings them to the Father on the other . |
| 25 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 26 | Finally , at a sad time for Rosamund and myself , our sincerest thanks to so many rugby friends who have extended , through kind words and deeds , their sympathies to us on the tragic death , after a short illness , of our daughter Charlotte . |