Example sentences of "[pers pn] on [art] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They think they have seen her somewhere before — was she on the television last night ? |
| 2 | ‘ Was that you on the phone last night ? ’ |
| 3 | Now that list is provided with you on the day first day of your assignment . |
| 4 | ‘ Caught you on the hop this morning ! ’ said Postie . |
| 5 | Brigadier Gatehouse is coming to start you on the shooting next week and Miss Bedwelty is coming to discuss the riding arrangements today . ’ |
| 6 | and just make sure about a few things do n't we on the book one . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , put them on a Code Red standby . |
| 8 | Zollner 's illusion makes parallel lines seem to diverge by placing them on a zigzag striped background . |
| 9 | The tickets have gone the tickets have gone for the er the Phil Kelsall concert you can get them on the door four quid on the night a week on Friday at eight o'clock at the er Alfreton Leisure Centre but our complimentary tickets have gone , long long gone . |
| 10 | and I 've we 've taken the the old settee down to Carrie 's and moved the two seater and the armchair down this end and they flew in tonight straight up on the sofa , I said to it 's gon na be tough for a week or so but they 've got ta get used to staying on the floor , I 'm not having them on the furniture all the time cos they just absolutely ruin it ! |
| 11 | Owen had a badly gashed forearm , Cynan some splinters of his own shaft lodged deep under his ribs , and all of them minor cuts and bruises ; but they had left behind them on the crest several of their enemies wounded by lances and arrows , some probably dead . |
| 12 | mm , I 've seen them on the front that 's all yeah , mm |
| 13 | ‘ I noticed them on the launch this morning . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We know that , Mr Vigo , ’ he said , wrenching his eyes away and fixing them on an eggshell thin service , made to contain jasmine tea . |
| 15 | But he s he met me on the road one day and he said to me , Miss , it would pay you to give a decent price for it , he said to me . |
| 16 | So I said ‘ Well , there 's no need to be frightened of him , he would n't touch you ’ , but you see then somebody was talking to me on the phone last night and said the same thing ‘ We do n't come any more to say prayers as we go through the churchyard because we 're frightened ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Yeah , and a long memory ; I still have n't forgiven you for not trying to rescue me on the ice that time . ’ |
| 18 | Constanze attempted to launch him on a career similar to his father 's — as a child-prodigy pianist — and on returning to Vienna he took composition lessons with Salieri , who proclaimed his ‘ a rare talent ’ . |
| 19 | Thus Old Den left the scene of his many triumphs on the shoulders of his son and his friends , leaving behind him on the bar fond memories of countless great nights of debates , discussion and song , echoed now in the keening of the women from their seats in the corner . |
| 20 | He 's here all right — I met him on the shore two nights ago . |
| 21 | Mr. Gilbert hit him on the head several times with the bottle and they were both kicked . |
| 22 | Sally-Anne had known nothing of this — only that standing with him on the ferry that day was sheer enchantment . |
| 23 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 24 | I see him on the bus one day round here . |
| 25 | Stick him on the end that . |
| 26 | So the universe does seem to be roughly the same in every direction , provided one views it on a scale large compared to the distance between galaxies , and ignores the differences on small scales . |
| 27 | No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons . |
| 28 | I saw it on the board this morning . |
| 29 | It 's up there , I saw it on the door last night . |
| 30 | Okay , well put it on the agenda next time |