Example sentences of "[pron] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I on the right line there ? |
| 2 | ‘ Why am I on the wrong side of this stone ? ’ she whispered . |
| 3 | People who have had experience of caring for someone on a long-term basis stress how important it is to lay down certain ‘ house rules ’ beforehand . |
| 4 | For someone on a low income , weekly credit payments of £5 might be a heavy burden — though virtually imperceptible for someone on a high income . |
| 5 | Perhaps you are fine when dealing with someone on a one-to-one basis but dread the thought of going to a party . |
| 6 | For someone on a low income , weekly credit payments of £5 might be a heavy burden — though virtually imperceptible for someone on a high income . |
| 7 | ‘ Someone on a white horse , ’ said Allen . |
| 8 | of his salary in national insurance , someone on the Prime Minister 's salary pays 3 per cent . |
| 9 | Someone on the far side of the cloisters made a joke in Dutch and another gaggle of European youths burst into laughter . |
| 10 | Even though she 'd been dead for so long it could sometimes seem that she was still with him , a presence in the next room , someone on the other side of a door who waited and listened but who never stepped through , except when he dreamed . |
| 11 | Should you not suspend the sitting until there is someone on the Tory Benches who is capable of walking over and picking up the notes to the Minister ? |
| 12 | ‘ Someone on the Coptic side wants to keep things on the boil , wants to stop agreement from being reached . |
| 13 | ‘ You think there 's someone on the Moslem side who 's got an interest in keeping things on the boil ? ’ asked Georgiades . |
| 14 | Either someone on the German side understood English or the TARDIS 's telepathic circuits were at work again , because the Germans also began dashing for the exits on their side of the cavern . |
| 15 | Close to it at a March meeting in 1585 accusations of a theft of some Scottish spurs and counter-accusations of ‘ a pretended matter beforehand ’ began to fly to and fro , until without warning someone on the Scottish side shot and killed Russell . |
| 16 | Detectives say someone on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night . |
| 17 | He is also someone on an endless quest for knowledge , who is particularly engaged by the study of foreign languages — German , Italian , Spanish and Danish , as well as French and English . |
| 18 | They forget that it is ‘ we ’ — or ourselves on a good day , ‘ society ’ as we call it — who understand that punishment is appropriate . |
| 19 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 20 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 21 | Victor Wellington said there was a ring of yours on the dead woman 's left hand . ’ |
| 22 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 23 | Regrettably , Mr Biffen wore his on the brief journey from his seaside hotel to the beach . |
| 24 | if we can resolve it with cos then you 're getting summat on a different style of thinking to that , you know , I know Fred does n't wan na be involved but then you 've always got somebody , well we 'll have to go and see Fred first . |
| 25 | He must therefore satisfy himself on a regular basis that it does not constitute a statutory nuisance . |
| 26 | The death at the weekend of Siho Iyiguven , who threw himself on a burning mattress at Harmondsworth detention centre , near Heathrow , was followed yesterday with further suicide threats by detainees who barricaded themselves into their dormitory . |
| 27 | When a character steps through the ever-changing arch , he finds himself on a narrow pathway through a forest of bizarre trees . |
| 28 | But even before it came to public notice earlier this year , poor Mr Engholm was having to struggle to impose himself on a fractious party . |
| 29 | So for the tourists to take 20 wickets was a feat worthy of note , particularly as they were without David Lawrence , their one bowler of genuine hostility , after he suffered a side strain while flogging himself on a lifeless strip at Napier a week before the Test . |
| 30 | When Nails had the refrigerator factory to himself on a warm summer evening he felt amazingly content . |