Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’ |
| 2 | my Lord I think so yes , erm if I can just say this I understand on the structures that a letter has been , er , an offer has been made by a letter erm of the structure and obviously there would be and that , that was done I think some time ago , erm and it might be my Lord how to what sort of structure is , but , but , erm I think from our side , erm we , we 've taken the first step and we 're going |
| 3 | In 1985 I stood on the quayside , shivering in the cold drizzle , to watch Arthur Hutton plant the hedge , closely watched by his grandson Martin , who hopes one day to follow his grandfather in keeping up the custom . |
| 4 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 5 | equations this one go on the top or the bottom of the fraction or what ? |
| 6 | In contrast to the glamour of television stars featured in the earlier story , this one focused on the alleged exploits of a family living in a council house in rural England . |
| 7 | But , he warned , ‘ when we recover from the present recession , we had better be aware than another one lurks on the horizon ’ . |
| 8 | Another one killed on the main road as well . |
| 9 | Is this another one leaping on the fashionable let's-destroy-the-party-from-within bandwagon ? ] that — for years — to assert these facts has been heresy . ’ |
| 10 | My understanding is that the decision by British Airways was a commercial one based on the traffic , but I shall discuss that , too , with my hon. Friend the Member for Wiltshire , North when he returns . |
| 11 | In Chapter 2 we embarked on the task of building a house for the writer-self , a beloved abode where the writer in you can live . |
| 12 | Mr Jardine was another 'oo insisted on the 'ighest standards . ’ |
| 13 | To achieve this they concentrated on the whole spectrum of damaging events in an area and explored their aggregate impact . |
| 14 | On Sept. 30 he called on the UN to supervise local elections . |
| 15 | It did n't sink darling it floated on the top , so we really need that one in there but I tell you what we 'll do , because you 've tr , written it so nicely we 'll put a little arrow and we 'll put there , that means that goes in there , alright , that 's smashing now all you need to do now is write your name on it |
| 16 | Legal authority is that which rests on the rules of the organisation . |
| 17 | When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness . |
| 18 | Could you please tell me : a ) how much I made on the deal ; b ) year of manufacture and finally ; c ) why is the thing so rare ? |
| 19 | The erm , yes these and it started to be like warfare more than a game you know at that stage but hopefully now we 're getting back to some sort of sanity with the membership cards you know , because we , the crowd is segregated from the away supporters now and that 's cos if Walsall go into the second division again they 'll have to spend so much I believe on the ground to cage the away supporters in which they do n't have to do in the third division . |
| 20 | Once at Number 112 I banged on the door with the palm of my hand and waited — I remember being surprised that the Trumpers did n't have a knocker . |
| 21 | Now confidence has manifested in lots and lots of ways and its appealing to that confidence as much as the insecurity , er that makes the advertiser 's and the manufacturer 's of all manner of products er , their huge profits , now I guess we all spend money on , on various products and er , do you , do you worry about how much you spend on the body beautiful or just the body ? , do you or , I mean does any , I wonder if you think you spend too much on it ? , let me ask you that , do you spend too much money on your body ? , er button one for yes and button two for no . |
| 22 | As I grew more proficient he leaned on the rail , sucked at his long clay pipe and reminisced about his days in sail or his experiences in ports from Aden to Hong Kong . |
| 23 | One and six it cost on the ferry |
| 24 | From 1888 he served on the new Cumberland county council , opposing the construction of roads over Lakeland passes , reducing mining pollution , and organizing the proper signposting of footpaths . |
| 25 | Is what , is where the money thing is coming in not , how much he saves on the level of service . |
| 26 | On Aug. 7 he called on the militias to swear an oath of allegiance to the Supreme Soviet . |
| 27 | But anyway as usual you get on the station . |
| 28 | The intervention followed several weeks of fighting between rival Indian factions armed with automatic weapons and grenades , which resulted in the deaths of at least two people , the displacement of many of the 9,500 who lived on the reservation , and the infliction of serious material damage . |
| 29 | After that she sat on the morning-room steps watching the day slide off the face of Old Carrots field . |
| 30 | This alarms others who are unimpressed by being able to order their groceries down the tube and remember the TV-eye in Orwell 's 1984 which spied on the populace as well as thundering propaganda messages at them . |