Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonathan Scott , Chairman of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art has produced another of his elegantly written reports on how successful or otherwise Britain has been at retaining its preeminent works of art : the tally , eighteen out of forty-four retained — that is , a public institution or , in the case of the Delander stick barometer , a private citizen , has matched the price at which the item was being exported . |
| 2 | the Secretary of State still had to announce his long awaited decision on the Brynhenllys Inquiry and he rejected British Coal 's appeal for a large site at Pwll Du . |
| 3 | I only saw highlights on match of the day , but from what I saw , the play was amazing . |
| 4 | Since I only had $11 on me , all I could afford was a blow-job . |
| 5 | The reason that I put code four , is if I just put labels on the list , I know that I can not complete that task today . |
| 6 | Can I just introduce people on the platform to you this evening . |
| 7 | ‘ I just read rubbish on the tube ! ’ ; |
| 8 | His new found maturity on and off the court is impressing many and diluting the controversial image he has carried with him since turning professional four years ago . |
| 9 | I finally left Luggnagg on a boat sailing to Japan . |
| 10 | I finally saw Dundee on my forty-first birthday and I pledged the ten quid to his lovely leathery face and his matchless , understated performance . |
| 11 | So that 's that 's what that 's er in fact I always qualify people on that answer even though it 's it 's right down the bottom here I say what do you what 's your interpretation . |
| 12 | you can I always miss things on the phone . |
| 13 | Well , I always look north on a dark night and I think that twice in the last twelve years . |
| 14 | And I always watched Wimbledon on the telly , even if it was just to see the lady players in those short skirts ( apart from old ‘ muscles ’ Navratilova ! ) . |
| 15 | She only worked at Pembroke Lodge for four weeks and I hardly set eyes on her . |
| 16 | How could I possibly have shadows on both lungs ? ! |
| 17 | True , my sister and I usually do somersaults on that bed . |
| 18 | I also use oil on paper finishing with gouache over the top . |
| 19 | I also made documentaries on the battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz , with both of which , as the reader may recall , I had had distant brushes , and the battlecruiser or fast battleship Scharnhorst which had sunk my father 's Rawalpindi . |
| 20 | It might have come in handy frozen , as a weapon in case Pointy-Beard and Shifty-Eyes turned up again , but then I now had Doogie on side . |
| 21 | I now faced difficulties on another front . |
| 22 | ‘ The first time I really took Jo on board was before I 'd ever met her . |
| 23 | For their part it was unnecessary as they only drank what had been boiled for tea or coffee , whereas I often drank water on its own or with fruit cordial . ) |
| 24 | OK , I often employ builders on the basis that they 've got an honest face only to find they 've nicked my buckets , added unnegotiated noughts on to their invoices and buggered up the plumbing but … |
| 25 | I did n't really look at him , though I immediately smelled alcohol on his breath , and thought , that firm is n't going to last long if it 's sending out drunken drivers to pick up clients . |
| 26 | Despite his well known views on EC federalism , de Gaulle 's first concern was with Germany , although , unlike his successors , he did not want to employ supranational structures to contain Germany . |
| 27 | I regularly see reports on Grangetown , Middlesbrough , and today you report Newcastle University 's study on child health using input from ‘ two GP practices in Middlesbrough , one in Grangetown and one in South Bank ’ ( HAS April 11 ) . |
| 28 | When he died Stark 's career was on the brink of still greater success , his posthumously published report on the plans for Edinburgh 's Calton area , in which he advocated attention to contours rather than the imposition of grid plans , having a profound effect on Edinburgh 's town planning . |
| 29 | ‘ Let someone else do dirt on his memory . ’ |
| 30 | Before World War I his privately circulated papers on technology , tactics , and strategy were read in influential naval and political circles . |