Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I have in mind then is a description of the route from a cyclist 's point of view ; distances , gradients , junctions ; alternative routes , eg longer loops for the more adventurous ; cafes , pubs , tearooms , and public places with benches ( because cyclists often like to ‘ eat their piece ’ out in the open ) ; some illustrations of landscapes ( these could either be line drawings based on sketches , or photographs ) ; and perhaps something on the history of the place-names , which is of interest to many cyclists ( eg where did Biggar get its name ? ) . |
| 2 | ( f ) Airspace and underground It is a fundamental proposition that in the absence of indications to the contrary a conveyance of land includes not only everything on the surface but everything beneath it down to the centre of the earth and the space directly above ( Grigsby v Melville [ 1973 ] 3 All ER 455 ) . |
| 3 | Not everyone on the island was sorry to see her go . |
| 4 | Well he , he was asking me which I 'd prefer and I said I think you ought to consider Vicki not me on the crossing . |
| 5 | Erm I mean , nevertheless , obviously it 's just somebody on the scene is a bit |
| 6 | Just somebody on the Council with a lot of , a lot of , there 's a |
| 7 | hammocked above you on the luggage rack |
| 8 | A packet is guaranteed to get you a taxi driver and other rare commodities — a waiter who discovers that not everything on the menu is off , a booking clerk who finds you a seat . |
| 9 | He claims he keeps tripping over something on the ground . |
| 10 | I started running and when I reached this end of the scaffolding I saw a woman bending over something on the ground at the other end . |
| 11 | Alice put the telephone down carefully , and looked at herself in the small , oval mirror hanging above it on the wall . |
| 12 | He thought it was easy for a newcomer to acquire school and institutional business because there was always someone on the lookout for improved service . |
| 13 | Oh he said oh I 'd like to give it all a good he wants to clean it there 's always something on the floor , it 's like a erm lino , it 's probably but all bigger squared |
| 14 | And like they on the bus , yeah , cos all , all the little school girls are sitting there with these huge tits out |
| 15 | While you are fishing , keep an eye on what 's happening near you on the river . |
| 16 | In consequence , months of painful and arduous negotiations had been wasted , largely because of the ignorance or the Bourbon attitude of the Foreign Office who did not bother to find out something on the basis that they already knew every piece of human knowledge that is worth knowing . |
| 17 | Three chords and you could play just about anything on the album . |
| 18 | Got the headphones so market could n't I on the baby stall ? |
| 19 | ‘ Was n't she on the list you gave me ? |
| 20 | I was thinking of doing a teddy but I thought I wanted sort of one , two or three things do n't you on the bottom ? |
| 21 | Well we on the beach on on the there , we went th we were there from morning till night wh during school holidays . |
| 22 | and just make sure about a few things do n't we on the book one . |
| 23 | ‘ Why are n't we on the train ? ’ |
| 24 | Right , very good , that 's all from Headquarters , right then we move on to then any other business , erm I think mainly it 's just the odd verse with arrangements for next meeting , because our next meeting is our own A G M , erm , at , which we erm elect our officers for the next year , er , and there are , are other arrangements to make , erm we sometimes put a little form do n't we on the end of the minutes that , people to fill in if they wish to nominate someone , I think we should do that even though very , very rarely gets actually filled in , erm , and we have some post which we have elections for others where we can phone the people who are doing those jobs and , and hope they 'll carry on . |
| 25 | I can hot it on the hob . ’ |
| 26 | The air quivered , not just far away in a heat haze , but close by me on the parapet , in a kind of vibrating brightness that hurt my eyes . |
| 27 | In the Three Essays on the theory of Sexuality ( 1905 ) there was almost nothing on the phase which followed the anal , and which became known as the phallic stage . |
| 28 | I remember visiting a remote island off the west coast of Ireland , and being struck by the fact that almost everyone on the island had the most enormous jug-handle ears . |
| 29 | Miami is a wonderful example of the art — the ocean , a long line of hotel pool areas and almost nobody on the beach in between . |
| 30 | But the UN , which is trying harder than SWAPO probably realised to be an honest broker , had almost nobody on the ground anyway . |