Example sentences of "[pers pn] on [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver spent all of his on the plastic ducks and collected ten prizes . |
| 2 | I know you play golf it might be a danger putting you on the golf courses . |
| 3 | Summarizing the argument , let me say that there are good reasons , based on sociobiological insights into hunting , which lead me to suppose that the cooperation , altruism and mutuality demanded by social-hunting techniques in 4-foot high hominids lacking all modern hunting technology meant that only the sons were likely at first to start to exploit the immense reserves of game which our gelada-like ancestors saw all around them on the savanna grasslands where they lived . |
| 4 | They insist that insecticide resistance , due in the main to their agricultural usage , is the principal cause of failures to reduce malaria transmission by an attack with them on the mosquito vectors . |
| 5 | With a stock exchange investigation under way into heavy trading in Dixons ' options ahead of the announcement , it emerged that as many as 300 people would have known of the bid shortly beforehand , many of them on the credit committees of lending banks . |
| 6 | They arranged them on the sand lemons or onions or oranges — in careful little piles and sold them for so much a pile . |
| 7 | One detects a certain apathy towards the whole business of synodical government , and parishes find it difficult to fill the vacancies allotted to them on the Deanery Synods . |
| 8 | These are known as ‘ Kent peg tapered tiles ’ as they narrow in length , holes being incorporated at the narrow ends to accept wooden pegs which locate them on the roofing battens . |
| 9 | For my part , I would humbly suggest : ‘ We shall assess them on the beaches , we shall assess them on the landing grounds , in the fields and in the streets … ’ and so on . |
| 10 | Taking two , freshly caught Highland sea-trout , he placed them on the mud flats below the bridge , where they were found the next morning . |
| 11 | I 'm a I I I 'm an er avid golfer , you I did n't say a golfer because that meant I could play , erm but I would n't put me on the golf clubs . |
| 12 | He was quite determined that I was going to try and escape , and followed so close behind me on the railway stations that I could smell his breath . |
| 13 | Behind him on the back seats of the bus four teenagers argued loudly over the cost of the litre of cider and half bottle of vodka they passed between them . |
| 14 | The next morning found him on the practice fields as soon as the sun was up , battering his post as though it were a mortal enemy . |
| 15 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 16 | Such was Kylie 's hatred of what she called ‘ pirate ’ pictures of her that she instructed her lawyers to look into ways of suing those who published unofficial photographs of her on the myriad items of memorabilia that filled shops all over the world . |
| 17 | Bernie Scholtz passed her on the iron stairs as she was hurrying out . |
| 18 | Then , every morning before the sun was up , Chola and Mina would take the mal in basketloads and spread it on the paddy fields as fertilizer . |
| 19 | Watch out for it on the ski slopes — if red is the choice , at least you 'll see it coming ! |
| 20 | I remember boiling the milk and pouring it on the tea leaves . |
| 21 | Well I erm I 'm basing it on the Tower Hamlets model . |
| 22 | A number of nurseries are offering it now , and you are likely to find it on the plant stalls of plantsmen 's gardens open to the public . |
| 23 | One Middlesbrough cinema manager , worried that the title might baffle or mislead his patrons , added a handwritten ‘ Gold Diggers ’ to it on the display bills supplied . |
| 24 | Perhaps we were selected by some mysterious computer which recorded the fact that we have each served a 17-year sentence — mine on the Back Benches , his in the Cabinet . |
| 25 | I 'll say thanks very much to Councillor Stuart Argyle for coming in our thanks as well to David Poole for joining us on the phone thanks David . |
| 26 | And I was absolutely amazed and I think all of us on the opposition benches were absolutely amazed at the city board that you appeared to have no proposals whatsoever to do anything about that situation . |