Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone drives on the left , the traffic lights are red , green and amber and people still wait until the lights turn to green before signalling that they 're turning right , leaving you stuck behind them . |
| 2 | Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown . |
| 3 | It is n't every day that someone starts on the ground floor and ends up by being made a director of the firm . |
| 4 | Bolt themselves in , if someone knocks on the door , you know , it 's sort of who is it |
| 5 | I says on a night-time , I said , you know , she ca n't leave her home now , I said , she ca n't manage to put coal on fire , and she ca n't manage to get up up to eat and drink and that , I said , I do n't mind dropping off and taking me turn on the night-time but I mean , but it 's hard , it 's hard with me with kids every night . |
| 6 | Also taking part in the programme were Flossie and Bill Jarvis , giving their memories of journeys on the railway and the Rev. Ray Arnold , who lives in the former Horderley station bungalow , told about his finds on the site . |
| 7 | Suddenly someone bangs on the drum in the corner , and we all look up . |
| 8 | Someone raps on the window . |
| 9 | Then someone decides on a set to suit the play someone brings the props and suddenly , there it is ’ — he waved a hand — ‘ dinner for two ; it 's magic . ’ |
| 10 | Nothing happens on the property in Kent — from which I conclude that our plans have either misfired or we have been seen through ( now there 's a possibility to douse even your ever-optimistic spirit ) and from you I hear nothing at all . |
| 11 | The strength , durability and weight of them depends on the weight of fabric used and how much coating has been applied . |
| 12 | If somebody goes on a drinking binge that 's the behaviour , the decision they make . |
| 13 | One can compare the passage just quoted , which insists on the unknowability of the real world , with some of her subsequent remarks ; as , for instance , when she refers to her argument ‘ that literature represents the myths and imaginary versions of real social relationships ’ , and claims that ‘ a form of criticism which refuses to reproduce the pseudo-knowledge offered by the text provides a real knowledge of the work of literature ’ , or says that ‘ the task of criticism , then , is … to produce a real knowledge of history . ’ |
| 14 | In a discipline like psychology , which insists on the specificity of its vocabulary , procedures and concerns , feminist initiatives which stay close to the traditional discipline are valuable . |
| 15 | There is also more overlapping , of a kind which insists on the notion of depth : a despairing woman on the far side of the statue from which the lesser Ajax is about to drag Cassandra to rape her ; hidden faces ( Priam 's and Aeneas 's — he is shown at one end , escaping with his father and son ) . |
| 16 | There is a passage in Mr Palomar which plays on the dialectic between speech ( or communicative language ) and silence and which might be taken to foreshadow the structure of the book as a whole . |
| 17 | The research , which builds on a pilot study carried out in 1984 , involves a depth case study of a large bank . |
| 18 | The best known version of this theory of functions is Jakobson 's ‘ Closing statement : linguistics and poetics ’ ( Sebeok 1960 : 350 — 77 ) delivered to a conference in America in 1958 , which builds on a set of categories proposed by Mukařovský some years earlier ( 1938 : 100 — 1 ) . |
| 19 | Refusing all but the most exceptional interview , Auerbach himself insists on the autonomy of the work . |
| 20 | Bernstein and Reynolds give a very full treatment of the subject , much of which turns on the interpretation of provisions in commercial leases . |
| 21 | On the networking side there 's a built-in Ethernet module which sits on a daughterboard and uses AMD 's new PCNet/ISA chip . |
| 22 | As the pressure for the hot system is provided by the cold feed tank , which sits on the ceiling joists — now a few inches below the new floor level — you would have to raise it as high as possible . |
| 23 | This light emulsion contains an ultra-fine powder ingredient which sits on the skin and alters the rate at which light bounces off it : the result is a complexion which refuses to look or act its age . |
| 24 | In the 1940s , Angélique Arvanitaki , and in the 1950s and 1960s Ladislav Tauc , in Paris , began studies of the sea mollusc Aplysia , a slug-like hermaphrodite creature which lives on the sea floor close to the beach and grazes on seaweed . |
| 25 | But perhaps the most interesting extension that can be made to a Murten visit is to make the very short journey of only 8km ( 5 miles ) either by road No 1 , or by rail on the same line as from Kerzers to Murten The destination is the small town of Avenches , which stands on a hill just north of the bypassing main road No1 which runs across the Mittelland plateau from Bern to Lausanne . |
| 26 | The smaller T110 , which stands on the workbench and carves pieces up to 18in tall by 10in diameter ; low relief panels 10in wide and limitless length ; and spindles 36in long by 8in diameter . |
| 27 | The village association committee runs the village hall which stands on the field . |
| 28 | which stands on the sideboard , |
| 29 | On Saturday the two prelates attended a service of vespers at the Church of San Gregorio , which stands on the site where Pope Gregory sent St Augustine of Canterbury off to become the first Archbishop of Canterbury in 597 . |
| 30 | The name ‘ Satis House ’ , however , CD took from that of another Rochester residence which stands on the site of the mansion of Richard Watts . |