Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 32 | ‘ Then perhaps you can assist me on a minor point of methodology ? ’ |
| 33 | I have therefore grouped them on a broad geological basis : sand , chalk , clay , and the gravels and loams of the coastal plain which probably also enjoys a modest climatic advantage over the rest of the county . |
| 34 | ( Hartman has shown that the average person has one or less nightmares a year ; and only one person in 500 has them on a weekly basis . ) |
| 35 | ‘ I think I caught everyone on the wrong foot at Ayresome Park when I increased my shareholding to 48 per cent earlier in the season . ’ |
| 36 | You also get to know them on a personal basis too … |
| 37 | ‘ In the 1950s and 60s there were superb beers — if you caught them on the right day . |
| 38 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
| 39 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
| 40 | The potters decorated cups with closely set vertical stripes , painting them on a wet slip , deliberately causing the edges to blur . |
| 41 | Manchester United wait on Bryan Robson 's decision on his fitness for the Rumbelows Cup Final against Nottingham Forest today , and hope to use the match to launch them on the final leg of their title procession . |
| 42 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 43 | Remove the stitches from the standard gauge machine with the garter bar and replace them on the chunky machine . |
| 44 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 45 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , ’ grunts Graeme Souness , as he ambles across the mahogany lined reception at Ibrox . |
| 46 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Finally , helped by a rope suspended from the cliff top , we found ourselves on the central plateau . |
| 50 | Detectives say someone on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night . |
| 51 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 52 | At one point Blake found himself on a main street and saw two policemen outside a baker 's shop . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Asked what he would feel like if , on Sunday night , he found himself on the 18th tee tied for the lead , he replied that it could only be a ‘ shattering experience ’ . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Paul Way found himself on the receiving end of a £100 fine for a breach of the P.G.A . |
| 59 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 60 | ITV 's Crime Monthly star Paul Ross found himself on the wrong side of the law after hitting a cyclist as he drove his car on a roundabout near London 's Waterloo station , a Westminster court heard . |