Example sentences of "[pers pn] on the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They cry themselves to sleep , he behind his wooden bars and she on the big sagging bed . |
| 2 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 3 | Against you on the right eight hundred pounds and I shall sell then are you all done at eight hundred pounds ? |
| 4 | I think I can help you on the particular limited point of deaths and their effect . |
| 5 | Franco pulled glasses two at a time from the sink and set them on the tiny draining board . |
| 6 | Mr Jim Woolsey , a member of Scowcroft commission and one of the Democrats ' leading missile experts , says it makes much more sense to put them on the vast military bases of Nevada and California , where they could be continually on the move . |
| 7 | She poked busily at the concoctions , withdrew the tins from the oven and put them on the scrubbed wooden table to cool . |
| 8 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
| 9 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
| 10 | Sometimes Dana would come and sit with me on the hard little chairs . |
| 11 | Her excitement , as she sat next to him on the narrow dirty furry seat of the bus , was almost too much for her . |
| 12 | ‘ Aye ’ I said in a trance and found myself moving closer to him on the broad warm bench . |
| 13 | To my surprise , voices from the Labour Benches shouted , ’ Put him on the Scottish Grand Committee . ’ |
| 14 | She watched as he sat opposite her on the worn old sofa and proceeded to pour the brandy into the glasses . |
| 15 | Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in . |
| 16 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 17 | Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National . |
| 18 | Then take a second card from the middle pile and place it on the other outside pile . |
| 19 | The school seemed cold and it was certainly dark for the main windows faced north and tall buildings surrounded it on the other three sides . |
| 20 | Using the striped ribbon technique , make a small gift tag and lay it on the small red parcel with a white twisted ribbon to secure . |
| 21 | ‘ Boyz N The Hood ’ has grossed over $50 million ( and still counting ) at the American box office , putting it on the top ten releases of the summer . |
| 22 | Sorry to be so vague , darling , but blame it on the unreliable British climate . |
| 23 | You 'd be well advised not to overdo it on the old liquid refreshment , however , as the return leg beside the river involves crossing an awful lot of stiles . |