Example sentences of "[pron] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet here am I on a road that instead of tarmac looks like a patio laid in bricks — every one hand-placed in herringbone pattern . |
| 2 | You always got someone on a hack to help you . |
| 3 | ‘ We are looking for someone on a consultancy basis to advise on above and below-the-line campaigns , but there may be several arms to that , ’ McDevitt adds . |
| 4 | However problems can arise even for intelligent people with an extensive vocabulary , for example when they are communicating with someone on a subject other than their own speciality . |
| 5 | I try it for a bit — you know , pretending that I 'm all frozen , but someone on a bike comes down the path and I got to move to get out the way . |
| 6 | There is one great consolation , however , which is the fact that on a mountain nothing looks stupider than someone on a bike . |
| 7 | Right so , someone on a bike , you 've got a mate on a pushbike and you 're starting a race and you give him a shove . |
| 8 | Next , the next person receives a picture of a boy on a bike because the accident was a hit and run accident and they hit someone on a bike . |
| 9 | As a customer , reading the label will help you decide whether to buy a product — that is , whether it suits your needs ( for example , someone on a diet might not want to buy a product containing a lot of sugar ) . |
| 10 | To someone on a planet a long , long way off it would look just like an ordinary star . ’ |
| 11 | She argues that it often is still in the employers ' interest to recruit someone on a relative 's recommendation , since this gives employers more control over their workforce . |
| 12 | It may be a childish response , but when you have overtaken someone on a hill , it is very uncomfortable to be overtaken by them . |
| 13 | The time for someone on a star will be different from that for someone at a distance , because of the gravitational field of the star . |
| 14 | So if you got ta have someone on a skiing accident they 've got ta be helicopter lifted off you 'll end up with thousand , four hundred thousand |
| 15 | Someone on a boat out there was having a party , people singing and making more noise than the music they were playing . |
| 16 | One or two mornings a week we sail upwind to another beach , basing ourselves on a campsite taverna for the day , and once a fortnight we take a day off . |
| 17 | When at last we emerged into the open we found ourselves on a plain , perhaps a mile wide , lying between the hills and the river . |
| 18 | We dry ourselves on a towel . |
| 19 | Lifting her out of the water we were totally silent , and neither of us seemed to be willing to commit ourselves on a weight so we just put her in the sling and let the scales do the talking . |
| 20 | This wealth of history , beauty and tranquillity is yours on a Waterbike . ’ |
| 21 | The trustee must not , except with the leave of the court , proceed to declare a dividend whilst there is pending any application to the court to reverse or vary a decision of his on a proof or to expunge a proof or to reduce the amount claimed ( r 11.5(2) ) . |
| 22 | I suspect he would have been rewarded by now had a private conversation of his on a car telephone not been picked up and leaked a couple of years ago . |
| 23 | Er I think actually his on A stage , no B stage , no A stage here , sorry , I 'll try , I 'll try for you , hold on . |
| 24 | the the flats is er a a no go area sort of thing and a kid 'll come along and spray summat on a wall and next day three kids 'll come along and spray things on the wall , so that you 've got more and more graffiti going all over the place , more and more rubbish , more and more people coming to the flats just to get into trouble . |
| 25 | That 's why 67-year old George Bush has been seen humiliating himself on a tennis court and going on daily runs . |
| 26 | Carrefour sat on a low wall that stretched out from the side of a building , leaning his back against the building 's wall and tootling to himself on a child 's flute . |
| 27 | He 'll find himself on a brain-shrinker 's couch or in the bin if he does n't get a hold of himself . " |
| 28 | His unit is stationed near the Cambodian border , and Chris soon finds himself on a night patrol in the jungle . |
| 29 | Wycliffe had perched himself on a stool between Hilda , who was seated at her desk , and Ralph , who sat on a seat like a chapel pew . |
| 30 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |