Example sentences of "[pron] on the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan is there she said the twenty first and I on the twenty first . |
| 2 | Simon had put Ben onto his lead so that he did n't run back down to the beach and cut himself on the rusty barbed wire . |
| 3 | In reaching his decision he founded himself on the only reported case as far as we know that has been decided under this provision ; it is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Brown v Liverpool Corporation [ 1969 ] 3 AER 1345 . |
| 4 | Most remarkable of all is the degree of concentration in London , which on the same functional basis is as large as the eight next largest cities in Britain put together ( Champion et al. , 1984 , Champion , Green , Owen , Ellin and Coombes , 1987 ) . |
| 5 | They cry themselves to sleep , he behind his wooden bars and she on the big sagging bed . |
| 6 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 7 | Against you on the right eight hundred pounds and I shall sell then are you all done at eight hundred pounds ? |
| 8 | ‘ I 've come to advise you on the last two appointments to your team . ’ |
| 9 | I think I can help you on the particular limited point of deaths and their effect . |
| 10 | We 've we we put that in writing , subject to satisfactory references erm er we will look forward to seeing you on the twenty eighth . |
| 11 | I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ? |
| 12 | Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution . |
| 13 | The management prides itself on the true Italian-style home cooking served in the dining-room , and the excellent roof-top terrace affords beautiful views over Sorrento and the Gulf of Naples . |
| 14 | The project prides itself on the intensive post-placement support offered to the children by their old key workers , and to the family by the family placement worker . |
| 15 | No doubt , as the election approaches , the Conservatives will seek to blame everything on the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) — a close friend of the Chancellor , whom I am glad to see in the Chamber . |
| 16 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 17 | There is a state-of-the-art cardiac resuscitation unit , much better than the one on the general medical wards . |
| 18 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 19 | Mortensen ( 1933a ) noted that A. ingolfiana and A. norvegica were very similar and could only be distinguished from one another by the following characters ; the shape of the genital plate which has two branches in A. ingolfiana but in A. norvegica the abradial branch — the one on the ventral interradial side of the genital plate is reduced and broadened , while the radial shields which are more rounded on the proximal abradial — outer side in A. ingolfiana while in A. norvegica this side is more angular . |
| 20 | GOLFING taxi driver Derek Funcks defied odds of several millions to one by hitting a hole in one … and then hitting another hole in one on the same round . |
| 21 | We toyed with the idea of having one on the twenty first of this month , but if we did , but now that we 've got someone interested in the house |
| 22 | The latest from Glasgow is the system is starting up again , we 're doing the first one on the twenty fourth of September erm , the Theatre Royal had , we 're doing three |
| 23 | Kegs in the pub cellar , the one on the left connected for serving . |
| 24 | Well George Roper is there on the twenty eighth of March . |
| 25 | Of whom there were more than a few I would imagine , thinking of how she had thrown herself on the poor defenceless Marcus . |
| 26 | Then she went through and threw herself on the comfortable cool silk bedcover , and lay in luxury , gazing up at the gently rotating white fan . |
| 27 | The old lady sat herself on the red plush sofa and behind her the woodwork of the grand piano gleamed in the dim light . |
| 28 | She loved to walk by herself on the wild lonely moors , with her dog Keeper running by her side . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'd done nothing on the first two days here and I thought it was all going wrong . |
| 30 | Franco pulled glasses two at a time from the sink and set them on the tiny draining board . |