Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 31 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 32 | The idea of starting an airline had come to him on the demise of Laker Airways in February 1982 . |
| 33 | Julia went to stand beside him on the minute balcony and stared down across the valley . |
| 34 | Because it would have been childish to refuse she stepped out and went to stand beside him on the snow . |
| 35 | Yes , I have n't brought the modular things I mentioned to you on the phone the other day but I think it would be very useful to sit down and look at structuring that |
| 36 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 37 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 38 | I have come across it on the American networks , where all script conferences are attended by a legal-looking chap whose only contribution is to say ’ We do not want to offend any groups ’ from time to time . |
| 39 | I wondered if her presence was an invitation ; I felt that if I stretched out my hand to grasp hers she would have sat by me on the bed . |
| 40 | Only I would have probably braked , changed down ended up in second and crept past it on the inside and then speeded up again . |
| 41 | As Mr Mansell hesitated , Emerson Fittipaldi from Brazil and Arie Luyendyk from Holland zoomed past him on the main straight . |
| 42 | ‘ You must think of her on the toilet , ’ Aline said , and giggled . |
| 43 | He had already heard of us on the river grapevine , about our journey upriver with Muhammad and Milhaez and Romany . |
| 44 | Well I , I had n't heard of it on the telly , I |
| 45 | Chirk , trying to retain a hint of character despite the volume of traffic that passes through it on the A5 , came and went , then , across the River Ceiriog and out of Wales into England . |
| 46 | This is the means by which LCH becomes the exclusive counterparty to both seller and buyer in respect of a contract made between them on the market . |
| 47 | ‘ Listen , I do n't want to talk about it on the phone . |
| 48 | His office would n't want to talk about it on the telephone , because my father has not been well , and at times has been behaving rather strangely . |
| 49 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 50 | Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door . |
| 51 | This is a choice between two types of reading , in that one can choose between them on the basis of whether the novel 's contradictions are to be articulated and sustained in the act of reading ( " rhetorically aware " ) or suppressed by the reading ( " aesthetically responsive " ) . |
| 52 | Unfair , maybe , but a horribly damaging allegation to have made about you on the eve of the Lions ' selection . |
| 53 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |
| 54 | And it seemed to them that there came against them on the part of the Christians full seventy thousand knights , all as white as snow : . |
| 55 | Sandys ' personal commitment involved disagreement with his senior civil servants who advised against it on the grounds that it would arouse opposition from the urban local authorities and private developers who would be forced to seek sites beyond the green belt . |
| 56 | I mean you get Sweet Fanny Adams done with them on the run up to Christmas anyway , E.l.S . |
| 57 | I was with the South African team throughout their travels in Australia and New Zealand and found them an exceptionally nice group ; agonized with them on the eve of the referendum on reforms back in South Africa when there were last-minute scare reports of a major swing to the right wing ; rejoiced with them when the vote when 68% for sanity , a far greater margin than any of us had dared hope for ; and generally enjoyed with them their victories and their considerable achievement in reaching the semi-final stage . |
| 58 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 59 | The French army included in the middle of the century over 50,000 foreigners , and still had over 40,000 serving in it on the eve of the Revolution . |
| 60 | The crowd seemed to be getting a little impatient just before the goal ( as I 'm sure we all were listening to it on the radio ) but can you imagine what the scum crowd would ahve been doing to their team if they had n't scored within twenty minutes ? |