Example sentences of "[pers pn] on the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They would just see it as , It puts you on the same wavelength , ’ Will laughs .
2 ‘ They would just see it as , It puts you on the same wavelength , ’ Will laughs .
3 That 's what they were doing , and then if you made too much slate this month , the following month they 'd drop your bonus down , so as to see as to keep you on the same level , so you could n't go any higher if you if you had good slate and worked your guts out .
4 You , who wanted me to enter you on the same night , with the same sound still in my head , a sound that I knew I had somehow , somewhere , heard before .
5 I may see you on the same plane . ’
6 The three other prints will then be available to you on the same basis and each may be paid for in the same way .
7 If you want two matches to be satisfied simultaneously you put them on the same row in the criteria range .
8 APT is the last building block in a set of systems — blessed with the contrived name LIFFEforce — which will allow exchange members and their clients fast and competitive access to the markets , enabling them to track and record their positions and settle them on the same day .
9 I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris .
10 However , it seemed a shame to be able to design the forms using the computer and not be able to complete them on the same machine at a later point .
11 However , it seemed a shame to be able to design the forms using the computer and not be able to complete them on the same machine at a later point .
12 A Country Diary : OXFORDSHIRE : On the first morning of this month , whilst watching the usual passage of gulls to the local refuse-dump , I spotted a flock of waders , estimated at between 300 and 400 , much higher up and heading due south , and , a matter of seconds later , a similar party followed them on the same course , and I was able to identify them as Golden Plover .
13 Though that 's beginning to be qualified a little because of the erm effects of erm national legislation , for example national employment legislation nowadays requires that all employers in a certain field of employment , and universities is one , erm pursue similar policies towards their staff , and indeed in our case erm pay them on the same pay scales and erm so in that sense we have to enter into agreements with trade unions and others which are binding on our members .
14 This layout was a physical expression of the administrative structure that Hammond was organizing for the office particularly , as Mary Anderson points out , the special status awarded to the Under Secretaries and their political departments , by placing them on the same level as the Secretary of State .
15 I would 've put them on the same level in all honesty
16 This puts them on the same footing as European growers after earlier anger and allegations that Ministry of Agriculture officials had agreed terms that disadvantaged UK grain growers .
17 Canonisation of artists has exploded : whereas in the last century you worshipped either Rubens or Botticelli , depending on your aesthetic credo , now it is legitimate to worship Gerome as well as Manet , while putting them on the same altar as living legends like Schnabel , Kiefer and Koons .
18 This being the case we can talk back to them on the same basis and presumably they will understand .
19 These shepherds live wild , most of them on the same mountain just outside Florence , in abandoned houses which often have no light or running water .
20 Now they will be scared rigid of stepping up and saying anything which could land them on the same mat upon which Lamb was so unfairly punished at Lord 's yesterday .
21 Try to place them on the same page so you can see they all work together .
22 When parents criticize or disapprove of what their children do ( when unacceptable ) , the fact that their offspring love and respect them puts them on the same side as their parents ; it means that they will take what is being said seriously , and will emulate them by beginning to criticize their bad behaviour themselves !
23 ‘ Oh , in cash , he paid me on the same day , insisted on doing so .
24 First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child .
25 Sophie was supposed to be doing the chorus so I grabbed Mary , and said come with me on the half way through , called Sophie why are you doing all the talking Dot and not Mary !
26 He would badger him about anything , often hitting him on the least pretext .
27 I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’
28 Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back .
29 If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you
30 ‘ Were they on the same side of the path as the moor gate ? ’ 'Yes .
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