Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I flash on the special branch : sleepless interrogations in windowless cells . |
| 2 | Erm but I mean on the other hand if you start trying to develop your criteria , and I 'd go out and look at Botton Village and look at the Richmond Fellowship or something , |
| 3 | Well I du n no , I mean on the one hand in nine in nineteen forty five I think it was , they were saying you know well in order to do , have s s s successful land reform you need three conditions , they said the same thing in nineteen forty eight , they said you need this , this , this and then we have to be militarily secure but then in nineteen forty six they 're saying no , do n't worry about it , just get the land reform sorted out , just do it . |
| 4 | But it 's also fears that the Party itself is becoming too radical too , they always want to control two elements and I mean on the last page , point number sixteen it says that how that erm tt that how that the Communist Party members ought to refrain from securing undue benefits by taking advantage of their leading position . |
| 5 | I do n't mean just on Road incidentally , I mean on the whole range of traffic calming demands . |
| 6 | I mean on the seaward side ? ’ |
| 7 | But I have to confess that what I save on the weedless swings , I lose on the rampant roundabouts . |
| 8 | If you get the limited edition of Let's Knife , you too can Singalongaknife with the free karaoke CD : I am a sweet little cat/ and I dance on a flying saucer … |
| 9 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 10 | I sit on a smooth stone and watch yellow-breasted finches in their dipping flights across the still-warm air . |
| 11 | I sit on the lower deck with my soft holdall heavy at my feet , behind two laughing women from Jamaica swapping advice about knitting . |
| 12 | I sit on the first island to photograph the kayaks heading north into the last of the sun , then refloat again to join them . |
| 13 | I sit on the wooden floor for a moment to gather my strength , also to decide exactly where I should take the relics to dispose of them . |
| 14 | I slip on the red shoes and have a look in the mirror . |
| 15 | MAX : I sleep on the right-hand side of my particular bed . |
| 16 | ‘ I shall also be reviewing the way we get independent advice , so that the public will be able to see absolutely clearly that I act on the best possible evidence , without fear or favour . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I depend on a manual wheelchair for all movement away from my car . |
| 18 | ‘ I look forward to seeing you again soon , though I hope on a social rather than a professional basis . ’ |
| 19 | Very quickly in , what , what can I say , I mean it 's an appalling situation where you have a political party that believes that it can solve all the ills of these the country that it has created in the last twelve years , I hope on the explicit though I tend to think renunciations are fairly clear here , but erm I hope you 'll listen . |
| 20 | A big grey five-year-old , Sunset And Vine jumped well in the Lily Tree Novice Hurdle and stormed home well clear looking a horse with a real future — some of it , I hope on the right channel . |
| 21 | I mean normally er this morning for instance , normally I park on the big car park down near the the river there , |
| 22 | ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again . |
| 23 | But I have to confess that what I save on the weedless swings , I lose on the rampant roundabouts . |
| 24 | Ah eh no I finish on the twenty fifth . |
| 25 | I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects . |
| 26 | … The horoscope in the Queen prophesies disaster for nearly everyone I know on the 16th of this month ( with the New Moon ) . |
| 27 | For this purpose I draw on a wide-ranging survey by John Lyons , which carries on naturally from the analysis by James Harris that I have just quoted . |
| 28 | And I draw on the same manual of environmental appraisal that erm Mr has mentioned in in his evidence , the Department of Transport 's manual . |
| 29 | But there were some like me I suppose on the other side . |
| 30 | Any errors could ruin the fishing , for if I snag on the overhanging branches or the roots , the subsequent pulling to free the tackle , or to break it , will not go unnoticed by the chub . |