Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she was reported to have er have said when they when they took her out , that there would be nothing nothing grow on the site of the house but runcho And I do n't know the they were awful hungry for land in that day you ken and there was quite , there was more than one occasion there was old folk just putting up with the house just to get the land that it stood on . |
| 2 | I flash on the special branch : sleepless interrogations in windowless cells . |
| 3 | I mean on the cottage . |
| 4 | They 're going to be confused yes , very confused , I mean on the football pitch you usually get the trainer run man and they 're talking to the footballer and it 's looking at them all the time and he will ask questions , erm what 's your name ? |
| 5 | We began filming with Richard Phillips on the sidelines ( by which I mean on the floor , through the windows , in the lounge and peering at the man peering through the lens ) , Nigel ( Grubby ) Foster and Michael Hall representing J Walter Thompson , the Agency . |
| 6 | Erm but I mean on the other hand if you start trying to develop your criteria , and I 'd go out and look at Botton Village and look at the Richmond Fellowship or something , |
| 7 | ‘ I mean on the cooking side of the job , ’ he explained patiently . |
| 8 | Black will take it swinging it in flicked on by Rozario and the goalkeeper made up for er what might have been an error a moment or two ago by coming bravely in with Pearce right in front of him and Rozario I mean on the flick . |
| 9 | I mean on the seaward side ? ’ |
| 10 | I do n't mean just on Road incidentally , I mean on the whole range of traffic calming demands . |
| 11 | But it 's also fears that the Party itself is becoming too radical too , they always want to control two elements and I mean on the last page , point number sixteen it says that how that erm tt that how that the Communist Party members ought to refrain from securing undue benefits by taking advantage of their leading position . |
| 12 | Well I du n no , I mean on the one hand in nine in nineteen forty five I think it was , they were saying you know well in order to do , have s s s successful land reform you need three conditions , they said the same thing in nineteen forty eight , they said you need this , this , this and then we have to be militarily secure but then in nineteen forty six they 're saying no , do n't worry about it , just get the land reform sorted out , just do it . |
| 13 | yeah , I mean on the burglary project we did a super video about victims , they did one for school which Steve was involved in which was excellent and you know so the quality is not in doubt . |
| 14 | I mean on the bottom . |
| 15 | you actually exchange , as soon as you 've exchanged contracts we 've got to get insured you see but erm I mean on the letter we got from the solicitor on Saturday it said , it , it looks as though your purchaser 's ready to exchange contracts in the forthcoming week |
| 16 | Yeah , the got to actually change the starter motor erm I mean on the A D fifties and the two litre they I would sort of , its only a hundred and fifty cc , but the next biggest thing they did was stopping er , a sixteen hundred so quite a lot of those , but nine times out of ten all they did was another part , so |
| 17 | But I have to confess that what I save on the weedless swings , I lose on the rampant roundabouts . |
| 18 | I remain on the outskirts of the main group , with a bottle of beer for company . |
| 19 | I bang on the door , but no one answers , so I push it open and go in . |
| 20 | I bang on the glass with my fist . |
| 21 | I sit on the first island to photograph the kayaks heading north into the last of the sun , then refloat again to join them . |
| 22 | The cool water is around my ankles as I sit on the bank , basking in the warm sunshine . |
| 23 | There is no deck chair for me so I sit on the lawn at Ma 's feet and draw some barley water up the straw , gently so as not to disturb Pa who is reading . |
| 24 | I sit on the wooden floor for a moment to gather my strength , also to decide exactly where I should take the relics to dispose of them . |
| 25 | And there are the future situations I sit on the bed here and think about : my utter love for some man ; I know I ca n't do things like love by halves , I know I have love pent up in me , I shall throw myself away , lose my heart and my body and my mind and soul to some cad like G.P. Who 'll betray me . |
| 26 | And I sit on the immunization su subcommittee anyway , so they better not dare . |
| 27 | I sit on the bench beside her , dizzy with loving him . |
| 28 | As I sit on the bus going westward I realize this could be the last I see of this manor . |
| 29 | When she clumps out I sit on the bed and ask Rachel , ‘ What the hell are we doing here ? ’ and she shrugs . |
| 30 | I sit on the lower deck with my soft holdall heavy at my feet , behind two laughing women from Jamaica swapping advice about knitting . |