Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After excluding children for whom data on the continuous variables were missing 5573 ( 63.3% ) were available for analysis of respiratory illness by birth weight and duration of pregnancy . |
| 2 | You have a love bite on your neck , yet you go on asking me for my views on the multicultural society , on secularism , on Darcian Monetarism . |
| 3 | Thank you for inviting my views on the above consultation document . |
| 4 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 5 | She said fucking machine out there not paying me out and your cancel my money on the fucking card am I supposed to eat today ? |
| 6 | If there was a black kid and a white kid with equal qualifications who both went for the same job , I would have to put my money on the white kid getting the job , because we 're in a white-dominated society . |
| 7 | Here are my notes on the recent form of the top châteaux : |
| 8 | I paused with my fingers on the plunger . |
| 9 | When we used to go out in the street , I would be on one side of the matron holding her arm , my sister on the other side doing the same . |
| 10 | So now here I am — Mrs Tamm wo n't leave her desk — not heading back to my own room and my labours on the great Assessment , but in the back parts of the building where I have never been before , picking my way blindly along the twisting ad hoc corridors , up and down odd arbitrary stairs , in the faint hope of ( seeing also ) . |
| 11 | I 've got my orals on the eighteenth , nineteenth , and twentieth |
| 12 | Although I have based my designs on the blue-white-yellow colour combinations , there is no reason why you should n't use your own combination if you prefer it . |
| 13 | And then with shoulders bunched and my eyes on the messed pavement I shuffle off down the drinker , and sit with tankard and tabloid in the comer by the fire . |
| 14 | I gulped , and fixed my eyes on the blood-red pen on the desk . |
| 15 | An all-nighter was a triumph of will and my eyelids were already dropping , but I kept my eyes on the thin figure . |
| 16 | Very slowly I took my weight on the good hand and slid my feet over the rim of the tub . |
| 17 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 18 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
| 19 | We had never moved , always living in the same place , 18 Ravensworth Road , Kensal Green A late Victorian artisan 's house it was , a two-up-two-down with me and my parents on the top floor . |
| 20 | ‘ It was very comfortable , ’ he surprisingly recorded , ‘ and I could always keep my eye on the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Actually , I prefer my wine on the dry side , ’ Peacock said . |
| 22 | This is , in fact , exactly the topic that I 'm going to be addressing in my lecture on the Open Day . |
| 23 | Then a wave of feebleness swamped me and dumped my body on the top step . |
| 24 | There was great resentment among my constituents on the Three Horseshoes estate at that suggestion , which they feared would dramatically worsen the quality of their lives . |
| 25 | I stayed in my room on the eighth floor for most of the day , just waiting . |
| 26 | Now I could set my sights on the European Championships in Stuttgart . |
| 27 | More recently ( and more light-heartedly ) it was pointed out to me after a lecture in England , that my ideas on the stratigraphical column were essentially Marxist in ideology . |
| 28 | I gave a short address with one foot on each side of the peace-line [ a sleeping policeman — concrete ] basing my theme on the marvellous passage in the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke — the song of the angels , seen and heard by the shepherds , ‘ Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace and goodwill to all people ’ . |
| 29 | As Frank Johnson commented in The Times , my appearance on the short walk between the Grand Hotel and the conference centre provoked uproar from the watching demonstrators . |
| 30 | When I saw my picture on the front page of the local newspaper I knew it meant trouble . ’ |