Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without even knowing it , we may make assumptions about them based on the fact that they 're called Charles rather than Kevin . |
| 2 | My mother was absolutely marvellous about me going on the stage . |
| 3 | He did not bother to look up when Corbett and Ranulf were ushered in but made a gesture for them to sit on the bench alongside the table while he continued noisily with his meal . |
| 4 | You see , Great-Aunt Jane was a skilled dressmaker and made clothes for quite a number of young ladies in Baldersdale , and it was usual for them to try on the new clothes and have the final fittings in the kitchen . |
| 5 | Playing against Celtic , however , is generally supposed to be difficult for someone who formerly captained the club and could not say that his regard for them ended on the day he was transferred . |
| 6 | The general postulates of each theory have , however , much in common : the contrasts between them depend on the phylogenetic features brought to the varying ecological conditions of life in which the animals live . |
| 7 | Mrs Reed arranged for me to leave on the nineteenth of January . |
| 8 | The idea was for me to go on the high-wire sixty feet above ground — on the shoulders of a Czechoslovakian circus performer . |
| 9 | We are currently in discussion with the TECs about their budget and I do not think that it would be appropriate for me to comment on the particular circumstances of my hon. Friend 's local TEC . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , in the absence of all the facts , it is not possible for me to comment on the individual case , nor would I wish to do so in a public forum . |
| 11 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 12 | ‘ It is despicable for someone to play on the fears of ordinary people in this way . |
| 13 | ‘ It is despicable for someone to play on the fears of ordinary people in this way . ’ |
| 14 | There did not seem to be a living soul left among the houses , except for someone banging on the door of the lock-up . |
| 15 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 16 | Also taking part in the programme were Flossie and Bill Jarvis , giving their memories of journeys on the railway and the Rev. Ray Arnold , who lives in the former Horderley station bungalow , told about his finds on the site . |
| 17 | ‘ Would ye after what happened on the way up to Cajamarca ? ’ |
| 18 | it 's not so bad for somebody living on the south coast |
| 19 | There are local people who support the school … many of whom shoot on the site . |
| 20 | The programmed is likely to displace some 15,000 Auyu tribal people , most of whom depend on the forest as hunter-gatherers or rubber tappers . |
| 21 | The crossbow , most useful in defence when the crossbowman , who needed protection for the time required to wind up his weapon , could hide himself behind a wall , was an elitist weapon , most effective in the hands of Gascons , who fought in Wales for Edward I , and of Genoese , a large contingent of whom fought on the French side at Crécy . |
| 22 | They were to have three children ; Will junior , Gladys ( both of whom went on the stage ) , and Joan . |
| 23 | Prices of industrial products doubled this week and rising prices of bread , milk and meat will worsen the already fast-declining living standards of the population , two thirds of whom live on the poverty line or below . |
| 24 | This procedure was denounced as " unconstitutional " by a group of ministers including St Luce , the Prime Minister 's son Lester Bird ( Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of External Affairs and Minister of Economic Development and Tourism ) , Hugh Marshall ( Minister of Trade , Industry and Energy ) , Robin Yearwood ( Minister of Public Utilities ) , Eustace Cochrane ( Minister of Public Works and Communications ) and Henderson Simon ( Minister without Portfolio ) , all of whom called on the Prime Minister to resign . |
| 25 | After all , none of Henri II 's three sons , all of whom sat on the French throne , and all of whom were products of the same education as Mary , was in any way an impressive or successful ruler . |
| 26 | The case was listed for rehearing before a committee of seven members not all of whom sat on the original committee . |
| 27 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 28 | Begonias are particular favourites and a gaggle of them gather on the paved area near the front door resplendent in pink , scarlet and yellow . |
| 29 | There was one of them caressing on the beach at Crystal Springs , and another of the glamorous couple wrapped around each other in the crystal-clear water of the hotel beach . |
| 30 | One of them remarked on the scent . ’ |