Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , all inductivists would claim that in so far as scientific theories can be justified , they are justified by supporting them inductively on the basis of some more-or-less secure basis provided by experience . |
| 2 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 3 | He gets up , holding the thin sheets of paper in front of him , perhaps just a little further away from himself than he normally would , and puts them delicately on the desk in front of me . |
| 4 | ‘ It caught me right on the side of my face , ’ she said . |
| 5 | no here they are , I know I 've seen them somewhere on the window sill |
| 6 | ‘ Thank you , darling , ’ she said and punched me vigorously on the arm to tell me to get lost , though it was half a joke , it 's always half a joke with Dodger . |
| 7 | She was unimpressed by both her grandfather 's reputation and his work : she had removed from her bedroom wall a large still-life of gladioli and a small representation of a baby 's head and stacked them carelessly on the landing in order to make room for a poster of Humphrey Bogart . |
| 8 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 9 | Whereas the vertical combs of honey-bees have cells on both sides , the paper-wasp 's horizontal combs have them only on the under-surface . |
| 10 | ‘ Certainly the play advocates a continuation of the war , as plays nowadays are required to do , ’ said Deems , folding his hands and placing them gently on the table before him , as if to show that he concealed nothing . |
| 11 | ‘ I said to Bernie if they were mine I 'd want to take them inside on a night . |
| 12 | If you closed your eyes you could imagine them together on the promenade , arm-in-arm like they should be , the doctor with a silver-knobbed stick , loving one another in a public place . |
| 13 | He did n't know what was happening between Gesner and Suzi any more , had n't seen either of them since the Season began , since that dreadful scene at Willi 's party , but he knew he had to submit himself to yet another bout of torture and watch them together on the stage . |
| 14 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 15 | They went into the staff-room and grabbed a coffee while they waited for the results , then they studied them together on the lightbox . |
| 16 | However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him . |
| 17 | He patted me gently on the shoulder . |
| 18 | He tried to wipe them away on the sleeve of the plaid shirt , but it was no good . |
| 19 | There was no board outside proclaiming it to be a guest house , or hotel , so if it was n't , and they only took in private guests , or friends , she could hardly go dumping herself on them just on the recommendation of someone called Annie , could she ? |
| 20 | She knew that the police do not have white cards , but did not press them further on the issue . |
| 21 | Zeinab added to his unease by opening her handbag , taking out the three small bottles of perfume and dropping them deliberately on the floor . |
| 22 | Suddenly she leaned across the desk and kissed me quickly on the mouth . |
| 23 | If you must , kiss them once on the forehead when they say good night . |
| 24 | But do n't sit them directly on the base of the pond , where the filter will soon become clogged with sediment . |
| 25 | I , I want to talk to you about er the conversation I had with Alec yesterday , he seems to be inundated with having to get details about on his er , all his paperwork and so on , and he seems to be inundated and he sounded a bit low , quite frankly , to me yesterday on the phone that he was getting inundated with all this |
| 26 | Or if they do manage to put you in a bedroom , remember that you 've got a whole camera team there , and they usually want to do some extraordinary shot from very close up , so they put you right on the edge of the bed , probably on a board which you 're about to fall off at any minute . |
| 27 | I could n't really tell you much on the phone , and anyway we can talk now . |
| 28 | I 've not really heard you much on the phone . |
| 29 | ‘ But your lifestyle keeps you constantly on the move , ’ he pointed out . |
| 30 | So we 're not actually changing your water tablets as such , we 're just knocking a little bit off and leaving you just on the Frusamide bit of your water tablet , okay ? |