Example sentences of "[verb] [indef pn] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had heard nothing on the radio . |
| 2 | I have heard nothing on the Dave Norris situation for some while , but we must consider that he has gone . |
| 3 | ‘ We found nothing on the river bank , ’ said Farag , still sturdily but less confidently . |
| 4 | But as he adapts to his new environment , Freddie 's proving himself to be a survivor capable of keeping everyone on the hop . |
| 5 | I never want nothing on the side Dave |
| 6 | I tell you what we 'll do , we 'll try to find someone on the way who knows the counter-spell and send him back to wake the Gnomes up . ’ |
| 7 | Once again it is up to the pilot to insist that this wing is held and not to accept someone on the upwind wing-tip . |
| 8 | i , but it needs two of us , it needs somebody on the inside and somebody on the out just to stop them flying through it . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Unix System Labs , which has a good server story but may lack something on the desktop end like applications , is reportedly trying to get Quorum interested in Destiny . |
| 10 | Well if it was in chronological order , you want one on the top . |
| 11 | So far as teachers are concerned , it might be necessary to tap a pupil on the shoulder to point out that s/he has dropped something on the floor , or to grab hold of a pupil to prevent an assault by that pupil on another . |
| 12 | With older children it could be that each child makes his/her own list on a piece of paper ; with younger children maybe we do it as a class , and the teacher writes everything on the blackboard ; or perhaps nothing is written down by individuals , with each giving what they will need to the teacher who 's a " quartermaster " . |
| 13 | ’ To give examples , he suggests that a kayak should have a jettisoning pod to prevent entrapment situations without making it clear that the buyer is unlikely to find one on the market . |
| 14 | I thought we could hang something on the fact that one of the most enduring sexual icons of the age was in fact what today would be called — uh — big . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They 'll let you know everything on the ward , ’ she replied with a smile . |
| 16 | ‘ Small businesses are operated by individuals who place everything on the line that is their money , their skills , their enthusiasm and , in many cases , the matrimonial home . ’ |
| 17 | We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen . |
| 18 | Her eye caught something on the video display , the shock transferring to Delaney . |
| 19 | Have you ever caught anybody on the roofs . |
| 20 | ‘ No other man has approached our convent walls , nor have travellers or pedlars reported anyone on the roads . |
| 21 | What about other people who has anyone on the basis of individuals that have come in here , do many individuals come in and actually have problems related to living in the flats ? |
| 22 | They do n't trust anyone on the outside , anyone who appears to be on the outside . |
| 23 | yeah , so anyway erm , he bought the car in to tell me that , garage down here , five hundred and forty eight pound labour right and that was put on another wing , save repairing the wing , put a new on , so what I did with mine is , I put on a new wing , right , and reduced the labour by sixty five quid to four hundred and five , I make plenty on the parts |
| 24 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 25 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 26 | Then we 'll have to tip someone on the floor . |
| 27 | At half nine you put someone on the door here to take money , anyone who comes in , whether they come into here or go into there |
| 28 | ‘ It was a fifty-fifty chance of saving someone on the verge of death , ’ one source close to the surgeons said . |
| 29 | Paris — or to be precise , the Paris made up of Montparnasse , St Germain and the Mouffetard — was like a party : meeting someone on the street in that quadrant did not constitute a pickup . |
| 30 | Later I put one on the wall of my study so that I could watch these changes in my appearance . |