Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This intake of information from several sources at once is a complex process , and the value to learners of silent viewing is that it lets them concentrate on one element at a time . |
| 2 | My right hon. Friend will recall that I asked on 18 July for an inquiry , and my constituents will welcome what my right hon. Friend has said today . |
| 3 | And er so that 's er I stopped on six months , being an orderly , because I could n't go back into tailoring , obviously , because er it might have aggravated it all again . |
| 4 | In addition , it will be eligible for up to £3.66 million under the urban crime fund initiative that I announced on 26 November . |
| 5 | I announced on 15 January the establishment , with the joint support of British Aerospace , of Hutton grammar school in Lancashire as the first voluntary-aided technology school . |
| 6 | The European arts festival , which I announced on 9 December will be a rewarding and imaginative way of celebrating our Presidency of the European Community in the second half of the year . |
| 7 | so he j , now he does make an effort in some of his books and , I mean they say write small , I mean on one page if he wrote any smaller I need a ma |
| 8 | If this is so , can you please let me have one of the two data only copies I requested on 14 February ( Ref. 020 ) ? |
| 9 | and this kind of thing it 's getting er I just think I 'm going to end up more confused by trying to do it all at once than if I concentrate on one thing at a time . |
| 10 | ‘ At night I hunt on four feet , ’ was the boy 's surprising reply . |
| 11 | I put on five pounds at Torremolinos one year and he went on and on about it . |
| 12 | By the way , to anybody that 's listening to this , I 'm not really huge but I put on five pounds since I stopped smoking . |
| 13 | I put on one kilogram . |
| 14 | ‘ I put on twenty-three pounds in the past two months . |
| 15 | I played on four albums for Barry Gibb ; I worked for Dionne Warwick on the ‘ Heartbreaker ’ and some film music for ‘ Staying Alive ’ . |
| 16 | Here is evidence , I read on one card , that the Pagan Mysteries were instituted pure . |
| 17 | Electroluminescent backlighting , lasting 10 hours between charges , gives a clear display even in total darkness , as I discovered on one dive to 36 metres . |
| 18 | I remember on one occasion the four of us went down to Glastonbury Fair where he sang , but due to a balls-up over the sound and the electricity , they did n't put him on until the next day and that was at about 5.00 in the morning when the sun came through . |
| 19 | I remember on one occasion I dashed out of the television studios to the bookshop in Norwich without a trace of make-up on and these kids fell off their bikes , saying ‘ Ugh , in real life you do n't look at all like you do on TV . ’ ’ |
| 20 | I remember on one occasion having strained my own courage to the absolute limit on a contract worth 10 million , which at that time was very large indeed , in order to obtain another 200,000 . |
| 21 | ‘ I remember on one occasion , soon after I began operating , cutting into an artery by mistake , and a great spurt of blood like a fountain came up into my face . |
| 22 | ‘ I decided on four days because I reckoned that that 's as near to being a full-timer as you can be , while still gaining something significant for yourself . |
| 23 | I wer I started on ten shillings a week there , down there , at er fourteen . |
| 24 | Shall I embark on two volumes of Henry James ? ’ |
| 25 | PAMELA : Since I must not say what I think on one hand nor on the other , let me depart your presence . |
| 26 | And in twelve years as an experienced shop steward , I can only recall having a full time officer in I think on three occasions . |
| 27 | Er at present I get sixty one pound a week old age pension , I 've a works pension of about twenty some pound a week , so that I live on eighty pound a week . |
| 28 | There is only one small difference between what I said on 14 November and what I have said today . |
| 29 | I paused on one foot . |
| 30 | … In fact I have on one occasion in my life dreamt of a Pan-Indonesia which will include not only Malaya and Papua [ ie. Australian New Guinea ] but also the Philippines . ’ |