Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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1 | He took to it like a duck to water and from then on he 'd grill me for hours on end about the various types of plays , especially when we were watching it on TV . |
2 | A reunion of the ship 's company is to be held in the RNA Club , Leamington Spa , on Saturday , July 3 , and I invite all members to contact me for details on or by letter . |
3 | He leaves me for days on end . |
4 | At the beginning of the war with England the French crown , denied the use of the ports and coastline of Brittany and Aquitaine , had to witness the English army enjoying access to both , and using them as bastions on the continental mainland from which to launch attacks into territories ruled by the king of France . |
5 | Seve , Nick , Jose-Maria and Woosie are all superstars although Josie-Maria and Ian have n't proved it yet it terms of Majors and I looked upon them as bankers on the first two days . |
6 | These are available , at some cost , as an add-on , and one or two PC makers now include them as options on their specification lists . |
7 | In order to create an individual life in the world , we should use them as colours on an artist 's palette , to paint our own picture . |
8 | Thinking of them as numbers on a tall , thin clockface may be useful , so first put a large leaf into the twelve o'clock position and then one at six o'clock . |
9 | Here the Polytechnic took established courses , often at a different level , which upon review no longer seemed appropriate or sustainable as part of the institutional profile , and redesigned them as fields on the Modular Course . |
10 | Relentlessly he made them repeat every movement and worked them for hours on end until they were perfectly in unison . |
11 | I used to play with them for hours on end and they tore a big hole in the back of my coat during one rough and tumble . |
12 | Emily and Anne had dogs , and they used to take them for walks on the moors . |
13 | They can be hired by individual groups with specific needs/goals or you can join them for days on plastic or longer courses on snow . |
14 | These are delicious by themselves , but if you use them for Devils on Horseback ( see p112 ) your cocktail party will surely be an enormous success . |
15 | The van Meers brought some wine which they said was Australian and the Keiths enjoyed the reminder it gave them of meals on the Mataura . |
16 | Reminds me of holidays on the Costa Brava . ’ |
17 | I want to be with you , really with you , inside you for hours on end , I 'm achin' for it . ’ |
18 | Yet as our relationship deepened , you seemed to abstract yourself , and sometimes I would not see you for days on end . |
19 | I 'm going to buy you a lovely new lead as your share of the prize and take you for walks on it — with something for you to carry in your mouth . ’ |
20 | There 's times I do n't see you for weeks on end . ’ |
21 | Now time is nearly on us but I 'm just going to rapidly refer you to procedures on death . |
22 | Also when you next pay a visit to National Tyre Services , your RAC MasterCard will entitle you to savings on two new tyres , your car 's exhaust and MOT test . |
23 | Well then at least I 'm they 'd bury me with bells on my ankles then . |
24 | Recent works isolate and enlarge single objects such as a spoon , a fingernail , and the bubble from a carpenter 's level , transforming them into meditations on space , form and texture . |
25 | Their faces when they see them with costumes on |
26 | If it is necessary for the expatriate couple to learn a new language , the course should provide them with details on where they might go or the steps they should take to achieve this . |
27 | Wooden horses and kangaroos and chickens went round and round also , a few of them with children on their backs . |
28 | Dana went back to his room at the Hospedaje Lisboa , leaving me in tears on my bed , sunk in despair . |
29 | We got a bamboo-wallah to build them two cages and hung them from hooks on the veranda . |
30 | Frame a collection of samplers or something more unusual like lace collars or handkerchieves ( or table napkins ) , and hang them in groups on the wall . |