Example sentences of "[noun pl] on [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd scarcely set eyes on him since the night they 'd had dinner together at the house in Westwood . |
| 2 | All during the meal , she 'd been aware of his eyes on her across the table , the warmth in them as tangible as a caressing hand . |
| 3 | They had been working all the evening , sewing Rosie 's wedding-dress , and it would be terribly unlucky if the bridegroom set eyes on it before the great day . |
| 4 | 8 Mark in the beds and borders on it to the dimensions required , in the required positions . |
| 5 | Students selected on the basis of success in some form of study which has placed similar demands on them to the ones which they will experience in higher education have been shown to respond as least as well as , it not better than , the traditionally qualified entrants . |
| 6 | Ralph Downes , who helped with the instrument 's design , made some Pye Nixa recordings on it in the earliest days of stereo ( 1958 ) to show just how effective this spatial effect could be in the music of Bach . |
| 7 | She borrows books on it from the local library and copies out old patterns . |
| 8 | A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival . |
| 9 | Scotland failing to capitalise on pressure and inflicting wounds on themselves at the same time is another common event , though , and a first-half penalty missed by Gary McAllister had a profound effect on Andy Roxburgh 's side . |
| 10 | They inflicted wounds on themselves in the sword dance and castigated themselves with ankle whips made of leather and bone , sprinkling the altar of the goddess with their blood . |
| 11 | This means that in order to slay the Grand Theogonist the enemy must inflict the full 3 wounds on him before the end of the next shooting or hand-to-hand combat phase . |
| 12 | national vocation I I really think that it 's worse because they 've not , whereas when I was a trainee you had your six weeks on produce , your six weeks on whatever in the branch of that now and they did n't have that , they have n't got any training plan , so they 've got nothing to say well career , branch branch need here and I need to be here and I need to be here . |
| 13 | Friends insisted last night that reports of a bitter row over the Maastricht Treaty with senior ministers , or that the vicious attacks on him by the anti-European Tories had driven him out , were wrong . |
| 14 | He complained of increased media attacks on him by the Moldavian Communist Party under its new first secretary Grigory Yeremey [ for whose appointment see above ] , featuring allegations that his administration was failing to protect party property ; of " back-stage scheming " against him in Moldavia 's Supreme Soviet ; and of his inability to work with republican Prime Minister Mircha Druk . |
| 15 | Elinor dreamily remembered what it was like to feel that your lover possessed all the wonderful qualities you wanted , before you realized that he did n't possess them , and that perhaps you had forced those qualities on him in the first place . |
| 16 | There are to be two features on her in the illustrated papers , Uncle Lionel says . |
| 17 | There are so many pressures on you in the West to look good . |
| 18 | His drastic remodelling of the archaic and irrational administrative system , replacing it by a system of intendants on something like the French model , his abrogation in June 1789 of the Joyeuse Entrée of Brabant , the most important of the constitutional documents which limited his powers in the Netherlands , his collection of taxes which had not been approved by the provincial estates , all aroused furious opposition . |
| 19 | Do we have any notes on him in the hospital ? ’ |
| 20 | After a long day filming , our three Busmen went off with notes on everything from the capital of Grand Cayman to the flag of Ougodogoland . |
| 21 | This engine was still in the original crate and had only six hours on it as the result of run-up tests done at the factory in 1944 . |
| 22 | Further , it makes me angry with myself to find that the perfectly natural and utterly unfair result is that I begin to dislike Paxford , no exercise of the will convincing me that it is not the unfortunate P. who is boring me with his views on everything under the sun . |
| 23 | She continued : ‘ I am 70 years old but I felt I must make this sacrifice for them , even though the constraints on me in the future are very great . ’ |
| 24 | Assets are frozen , you ca n't get your hands on them on the whole until you 've got your grant of probate or you 've made declarations if it 's a small will . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll tell you quite frankly , I would n't know where to put my hands on them at the moment . |
| 26 | Software developers should be able to get their hands on one from the end of this month , with general availability pegged for next February when Microsoft NT arrives for it . |
| 27 | ‘ It assumes that he went round armed with a little pistol , or that he knew where to lay hands on one in the house . ’ |
| 28 | In fact sir , the County Council 's figures produced in another appendix , ca n't lay my hands on it at the moment , had put this figure in as three thousand six hundred and fifty , but the nub of those two things are , that over that six month period , we 're not only seeing more houses built but we have more consented , and that has n't affected the residue that appears in the rest of these schedules . |
| 29 | Betty would probably rather be in the Dordogne , but she was here making sure that Lydia did n't lay violent hands on herself in the profundity of her misery , or let herself go to seed in the spiritless fashion of an old thistle . |
| 30 | We 'll give you a room here , do some tests on you over the weekend and take you to the theatre on Tuesday . ’ |