Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina could crawl in beside them or sleep on the sofa downstairs if she preferred . |
| 2 | There 's nothing that happens on the estate which I do n't know about . |
| 3 | Yes , as a as a as a porter or a a a erm what they what used to call them that worked on the line , there was a special name for the li the people that read repaired the lines . |
| 4 | He was not , it appears , in any way responsible for the Montagu declaration — though he anticipated its thinking-but came on the scene shortly afterwards as one of the chief architects of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms . |
| 5 | After five minutes or so and a few shaky moments in some bankside undergrowth , a huge koi graced my net which when put on the scales went a shade over 15lb . |
| 6 | I 've only been on since I read that thing in the square ball , and I suppose loads must have done the same as me and jumped on the bandwagon . |
| 7 | Will you do me one to take home with me and put on the wall ? ’ |
| 8 | Cautiously she made her way down them and flicked on the light , gasping in appreciation as she found herself in an ultra-modern kitchen . |
| 9 | He picked up the books one by one , opening them at the title page , watching every movement of her pen as she signed them and commenting on the brilliance of each individual plot . |
| 10 | The crowds on the platform shrieked at them and banged on the glass , then ran to the end of the carriages to climb on to the roof . |
| 11 | Yeah but then he 'll , we should be able to manage then to pay the mortgage and pay them and keep on the level peg . |
| 12 | The amount that banks hold in cash and operational balances is up to them and depends on the demand for cash that they expect from their customers . |
| 13 | Since October 1921 military detachments had been sent out to the local villages to billet in them and to insist on the tax in kind ( shades of expropriation by force in the period of War Communism ) . |
| 14 | Whatever surfaces are provided , the fish often ignore them and spawn on the side of the tank . |
| 15 | Both halves have their merits , but together their appeal will be limited to those teachers of computer science , who if lecturing on the impact of motor traffic on society , would spend half the time on the way sparking plugs work . |
| 16 | Then they stick the needle in you and pull on the blood and it 's disgusting ! |
| 17 | I ask you , hundreds of miles from bloody anywhere and the Coke reps have been there before you and shat on the landscape . |
| 18 | In-depth articles on the Company itself and reporting on the latest innovative trends from the design studio , all form part of their activities . |
| 19 | The declared results remind us more readily of the spoiled world of Genesis 3 than those of Genesis 1 or 2 : ‘ The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth , and upon every bird of the air , upon everything that creeps on the ground , and all fish of the sea ’ ( 9.2 ) . |
| 20 | Because everything that appears on the Macintosh screen is treated as a graphic , even the text is handled this way , life is remarkably easy for the desktop publisher . |
| 21 | Deserts are the result of a lack of water and if there is a prolonged , fluctuating drought ( like the one that began on the northern fringe of sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the 1960s ) vast sums of money are not going to stop desertification . |
| 22 | Do you mean the one that starts on the Tuesday ? |
| 23 | Certainly the two definitions ( ( 9 ) and ( 12 ) ) are not far apart ; but it might be claimed that at least the one that focuses on the nature of context makes clear that one of the goals of a pragmatic theory should be to explicate that nature . |
| 24 | Buy something and get on the escalator . |
| 25 | Emecheta followed its success with Second-Class Citizen and The Bride Price but when her publishers , Allison and Busby , went broke , she decided to publish the hardbacks herself and sell on the paperback rights . |
| 26 | Him that him that calls on the bloody bingo . |
| 27 | Even after deciding to put public service behind him and concentrate on the private sector , he has never quite seemed able to escape involvement with government . |
| 28 | The bird , which Gould called the harlequin bronzewing , and which later became known as the flock pigeon , rose from the water beside him and alighted on the ground 40 yards away , just within reach of Gould 's expert aim . |
| 29 | He did n't advise but just stood there , nodding his head vaguely and smiling to himself while his hands — almost involuntarily — went through the motions of twisting the spindle he 'd brought with him and winding on the wool . |
| 30 | Kate looked away from him and concentrated on the ormolu clock on the mantelpiece , its ticking the only other sound in the room . |