Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , nothing specific on the cards , ’ he 'd tell them . |
| 2 | The DoH has begun a programme of child protection inspections which will cover interviews with children , but nothing specific on the memorandum is planned . |
| 3 | Nice to see someone name-drop on the list ; - ) hehehe . |
| 4 | There is nothing official on the horizon for the moment , except the junked rigs , blocked with chortling seagulls . |
| 5 | Reassuring themselves that the train had broken down , both men felt confident that they would find nothing untoward on the line . |
| 6 | ‘ I examined the two bottles for prints and found nothing identifiable on the hydrochloride , but on the nux vomica bottle there were fresh prints of the deceased 's left hand and on the stopper good prints of the forefinger and thumb of his right hand . |
| 7 | Jules had tactfully made himself scarce on the pretext of work to be done at the new salon and now , two days after his visit to Maythorpe House , Harry was at last able to unburden himself . |
| 8 | I 've got the like I do n't know what it is , they 've got like the little triangular something on one of the things , its right on the edge of the like a little white mark on it , that 's |
| 9 | He could cut himself free on the coral . |
| 10 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
| 11 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , my dear , Travis is pretty much a law unto himself , ’ Jonas pacified , watching his grandson make himself comfortable on the top step . |
| 13 | Masklin darted between two seats , around a pair of giant shoes , and threw himself flat on the carpet . |
| 14 | He threw her away from him and flung himself flat on the ground as Liartes ' dragon thundered by , leaving another smoking scar across the turf . |
| 15 | Cornelius made himself comfy on the stool and sniffed at the coffee pot . |
| 16 | Up at five and sleeping badly of late , Luke kept his mind off Perdita and himself awake on the long straight roads , as he had done so often in the past , by concentrating on a particular horse . |
| 17 | Edward contorted again , biting first at her throat and then kissing her full on the mouth , forcing her lips apart with his tongue . |
| 18 | Thereupon I kissed her full on the lips . |
| 19 | He put an arm round her waist , pulled her close , kissed her full on the mouth . |
| 20 | Then his head dipped towards her and he kissed her full on the lips , a harsh , plundering kiss that robbed her of breath and left her trembling beneath him . |
| 21 | He put his hand under her chin and turned her face upwards towards him and bent down and very deliberately Kissed her full on the lips , and then he turned away and left her . |
| 22 | Their use of the ball out of defence — mainly through Brian Hamilton , with Willie Miller making himself available on the right — provided some of the game 's less jarring moments . |
| 23 | The last time he 'd seen her she 'd been drunk , they 'd had a fight , he 'd left her sprawling on the carpet . |
| 24 | The blank round ripped through her jeans , burned her leg and sent her sprawling on the floor on their night-out in Wrexham , North Wales . |
| 25 | Keep her steady on the lee ! |
| 26 | Out in the lake the gulls wheeled and scolded above their young on the pile of reeds ringed with rocks that formed Seagull Island . |
| 27 | Arctic skuas feed their young on the fish which they rob from the terns , and have become so specialised that they have almost lost the capability of catching food for themselves . |
| 28 | Erm , Chair , this is the Joint Staffing Watch for September ninety-three , and its mandatory on the County Council , that it 's presented to the committee , er , within a period of preparation as it is issued to the media . |
| 29 | The Castle of Otranto is as unspecific ( and discomforting ) as Walpole 's description of Pope 's grotto : ‘ An awful silence reigned throughout these subterraneous regions , except now and then some blasts of wind that shook the doors she had passed , and which grating on the rusty hinges were re-echoed through that long labyrinth of darkness . |
| 30 | Goodier ( 1984 ) has applied a statistical approach to this question and concluded that ‘ the Anglo-Saxons buried a significant proportion of their dead on the boundaries of their land units ’ ( ibid. , 14 ) . |