Example sentences of "[noun pl] on [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , but what 's the point of having a new suite , and having old covers on it like that . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember when I first set eyes on you at that cocktail party and I thought , In spite of her dark flowing hair and her Mediterranean beauty she has a bite about her that can only be British . |
| 3 | Was , was there more fear , wa wa was it more likely that the press would fear repercussions on them in some way , if they were to break confidences . |
| 4 | The second step is controlling the actual physical effects on you of all the adrenaline which is produced when you sense you are in a threatening situation . |
| 5 | Cos there 's some , they used to be carrying timber down the dock all one length and what already slung , already stacked for 'em and the way it cost , the way it go put the wires on me for sure now and there ai n't much to let now . |
| 6 | When Henry Homer wrote this in 1767 the canal age was in its infancy , but he predicted that not only by the turnpikes but with the aid of " an even more valuable project of increasing inland navigation , a facility of communication is soon likely to be established from every part of the Island to the sea and from the several places on it to each other " . |
| 7 | For as if the attacks on him from Labour and Liberal Democrats were not enough . |
| 8 | So if we can be quite clear in our minds from now , you might get questions on it tomorrow , you might get questions on it at some point in the future during the week , but they inevitably come at some point . |
| 9 | How did he always manage to turn the tables on her like that ? |
| 10 | and it 's has n't got needles on it at all . |
| 11 | However , as the table has to be moved out of the way whenever the patient gets up , it should not be too heavy , or have too many items on it at one time . |
| 12 | The candidate survey differed from the client survey in three respects : first , the rate of response was slightly lower , despite the fact that it was carefully based on the Financial Times listings of movements of executives and on firms where much headhunting was known to have taken place ; second , the views of headhunters were more negative ; and third , none would mention the names of specific search firms or venture opinions on them in particular . |
| 13 | Richard was the kind of man who has two clean handkerchiefs on him at half past three in the morning . |
| 14 | It is evident that even at seventeen Nietzsche took life and his own views on it with great seriousness ; also , that implicit in those views was an uneasy relationship , here in its first stage , between the inevitable " mere specialism " of the professional classical scholar and a growing " longing for Greece " . |
| 15 | The law , the result of years of lobbying by the Roman Catholic church , bans abortions in private clinics and puts strict limits on them in public hospitals . |
| 16 | I 've got some bollocks on it about some girl in my class called Karen wanking or something and all sorts of other shit and like |
| 17 | But her menu , when it arrived , had no prices on it at all . |
| 18 | If he 'd had his hands on her for one minute , he could have given her something to remember him by ; if only he 'd spat a single obscenity into her ear before running off , it would have been something . |
| 19 | But Wilkinson said : ‘ I am not interested in Manchester United and gaining or losing points on them at this stage . |
| 20 | Black-leaved ilexes grew in the churchyard and a brassy laburnum had flowers on it for one week out of the year . |
| 21 | And I had the TV cameras on me for most of the time . |
| 22 | And they probably have cameras on it for all I know . |
| 23 | Autopsy evidence of the injuries to the front seat occupants , together with the lack of markings on them from diagonal shoulder strap restraint , suggested that the upper torso restraint of both front seat occupants had not been effective . |
| 24 | not only as to its erm very elaborate tracery patterns and and mythical beasts on it like that , around here , but also as to its colour cos although the original we found was actually blackened , when one took when I took a very powerful torch to it , you could actually see the colour in the crevices still , this red colour . |
| 25 | Is there no lids on them at all ? |