Example sentences of "[pron] on the [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 | of his salary in national insurance , someone on the Prime Minister 's salary pays 3 per cent . |
| 4 | Someone on the far side of the cloisters made a joke in Dutch and another gaggle of European youths burst into laughter . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | ‘ Someone on the Coptic side wants to keep things on the boil , wants to stop agreement from being reached . |
| 8 | ‘ You think there 's someone on the Moslem side who 's got an interest in keeping things on the boil ? ’ asked Georgiades . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Detectives say someone on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night . |
| 12 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 13 | Victor Wellington said there was a ring of yours on the dead woman 's left hand . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Regrettably , Mr Biffen wore his on the brief journey from his seaside hotel to the beach . |
| 16 | Karelius had stationed himself on the right flank , a little to the rear of those in the very forefront . |
| 17 | William Hurt is the medic of the title , an eminent surgeon who finds himself on the other edge of the scalpel when he becomes seriously ill . |
| 18 | Cassie wondered hazily whether in Johnny 's book it would be considered all right to force himself on the other sort of girl , whoever she may be ! |
| 19 | So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world . |
| 20 | It simply did not , and does not , offer a framework on which to hang a convincing story … the geographer , when he analyses the material properties of the man-environment systems , must base himself on the central functions of that system , rather than on the traditional divisions of physical geography . |
| 21 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 22 | The reason that his brush has stroked not a lot on these pristine pages of late is twofold : firstly , he 's been very busy providing illustrations for the soon-to-be-seen N-Force magazine ( which Europress are launching for Nintendo fans = both of them ! ) , and he 's been sunning himself on the golden shores of beautiful Bali for the past three weeks ! |
| 23 | The son of Rainbow Quest was always up with the leaders that day , clearly enjoying himself on the easy ground and eventually racing three and a half lengths clear . |
| 24 | His father was dying , and he himself on the very point of becoming chief of Clan Gillian . |
| 25 | Fiver seemed to grow even smaller as he flattened himself on the hard earth . |
| 26 | Even Hermsprong ( 1796 ) , one of the first political novels , whose eponymous hero models himself on the noble savage , confines itself to great houses or to those that emulate them , while the savage himself , in true romance tradition , turns out to be an aristocrat , and the rightful heir to his wicked uncle 's estate . |
| 27 | That they were left to themselves is evident , for Eusebius of Nicomedia , who was close to Constantine , found himself on the losing side in the debate about the relationship between Father and Son , defeated by a group led by a mere deacon ( though soon to be a bishop ) , Athanasius of Alexandria . |
| 28 | The original score — the two movements completed by Mozart , and the rest added by Süssmayr in a hand almost indistinguishable ( deliberately so ) from Mozart 's — was given to Count Walsegg , who for once found himself on the receiving end of a little deception . |
| 29 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 30 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |