Example sentences of "[pron] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 That I On the first point about us and our own showing of forgiveness .
2 Am I on the right line there ?
3 ‘ Why am I on the wrong side of this stone ? ’ she whispered .
4 of his salary in national insurance , someone on the Prime Minister 's salary pays 3 per cent .
5 Someone on the far side of the cloisters made a joke in Dutch and another gaggle of European youths burst into laughter .
6 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 .
7 This has subsequently been changed , but suggests the view the SFA might take ; it would be logical for it to do so , since a market counterparty of this type is supposed to be someone on the same level as the firm .
8 You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him .
9 If you 're on a sailing or windsurf holiday you may still book without a supplement if you 're willing to share with someone on the same holiday .
10 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 ?
11 Someone on the Coptic side wants to keep things on the boil , wants to stop agreement from being reached .
12 Finally , on Sunday morning Emerson woke up to find it raining — and Monza is not the track for rain , nor is rain a help to someone on the third row of the grid .
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 Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau .
18 I start musing on how it is we do find ourselves on the same side .
19 Victor Wellington said there was a ring of yours on the dead woman 's left hand . ’
20 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 .
21 Regrettably , Mr Biffen wore his on the brief journey from his seaside hotel to the beach .
22 Karelius had stationed himself on the right flank , a little to the rear of those in the very forefront .
23 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 .
24 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 !
25 The horse hurt himself on the first jump and despite leading for much of the way round never really mastered the race .
26 So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 !
30 He flung himself on the nearest sofa .
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