Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its circulation had grown enormously as immigrants flooded into Tollemarche , and it had expanded into the shops which flanked it on either side . |
| 2 | He duly appeared before three or four venerable gentlemen who lectured him on how to behave in the Far East . |
| 3 | She struggled furiously , but it was little use , and at the top of the steps he set her on her feet . |
| 4 | At least it keeps them from the dangers which await them on the streets . |
| 5 | I see you later than , oh where 's the car keys I had them on the . |
| 6 | And they never won nothing and they were made redundant last week and one of the chaps he did it on his own this week and won three hundred thousand . |
| 7 | Other interviewers who met her on set have tried to solve the riddle of her success . |
| 8 | I earned a few sous so I became more fantastical , maintaining I had met Brahmins who killed themselves on funeral pyres ; men with monkeys ’ heads and leopards ' bodies ; giants with only one eye and one foot who could run so fast they could only be caught if they fell asleep in the lap of a virgin . |
| 9 | Since the Earl of Holland was ‘ a man of greater dignity than knowledge in the Lawes of the Forest , he was assisted at various times by judges of the common law courts who advised him on points of law . |
| 10 | We rely on the good advice of our solicitors who advise us on the appropriate action to take . |
| 11 | earlier , we 've had a lot of calls on this on er , the best way to deal with house guests who inflict themselves on you over Christmas , have you ever had any horror stories yourself ? |
| 12 | Knights as well as nobles took prisoners at Poitiers , and the Black Prince granted lands , offices and annuities to many yeomen and bachelors who served him on his campaigns in Gascony between 1355 and 1357 . |
| 13 | I still have that little book of selected poems you gave me on my twelfth birthday . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | To open the walnuts we placed them on one stone and hammered with another . |
| 16 | As it turned out , I was a dreadful croupier and after a few weeks they put me on coats and hats . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Cos , at home you see er Dorothy and Trevor always read their stories in bed , and when I read their stories I have me on the arm chair two sitting on one chair arm |
| 19 | Tears jumped into Evelyn 's eyes and she started to hurry in the direction of the girls ' barracks , ignoring the missiles which caught her on the back and arms or dropped uselessly on either side . |
| 20 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 21 | Any persons who saw anyone on that train looking agitated or with traces of blood , we 'd like to hear from them . |
| 22 | And that 's why we tell them and there are some other things you tell them on the phone of course which you 'll find out about on the training school . |
| 23 | In another part of its robots programme , the Department of Industry puts up cash to help firms to pay consultants who advise them on robot applications . |
| 24 | These are known as ‘ Kent peg tapered tiles ’ as they narrow in length , holes being incorporated at the narrow ends to accept wooden pegs which locate them on the roofing battens . |
| 25 | Any charge can then be in favour of the trustees who hold it on trust for the debentureholders . |
| 26 | The reasons they push it on you is that young people particularly do activities that are liable to get infection . |
| 27 | To wit : Syrett , beautiful but doomed , cut his hand on a wine glass at a party and , after ignoring his doctor 's advice to avoid climbing , did irreparable damage to his tendons which started him on a tightening spiral of alcoholism and eventual suicide . |
| 28 | The historical development of associations concerned with the employment relationship during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries may be explained as a negative response on the part of employers to accommodate the external challenges which confronted them on the basis of three broad sets of factors . |
| 29 | His luck — and he would have a lot of luck ( which he acknowledged generously and constantly ) — was to meet here the first of many teachers who set him on his way . |
| 30 | Gable regards this as an insult to the audience handed out by critics who consider themselves on a higher level . |