Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I have in mind then is a description of the route from a cyclist 's point of view ; distances , gradients , junctions ; alternative routes , eg longer loops for the more adventurous ; cafes , pubs , tearooms , and public places with benches ( because cyclists often like to ‘ eat their piece ’ out in the open ) ; some illustrations of landscapes ( these could either be line drawings based on sketches , or photographs ) ; and perhaps something on the history of the place-names , which is of interest to many cyclists ( eg where did Biggar get its name ? ) . |
| 2 | ( f ) Airspace and underground It is a fundamental proposition that in the absence of indications to the contrary a conveyance of land includes not only everything on the surface but everything beneath it down to the centre of the earth and the space directly above ( Grigsby v Melville [ 1973 ] 3 All ER 455 ) . |
| 3 | Erm I mean , nevertheless , obviously it 's just somebody on the scene is a bit |
| 4 | Just somebody on the Council with a lot of , a lot of , there 's a |
| 5 | hammocked above you on the luggage rack |
| 6 | Alice put the telephone down carefully , and looked at herself in the small , oval mirror hanging above it on the wall . |
| 7 | He thought it was easy for a newcomer to acquire school and institutional business because there was always someone on the lookout for improved service . |
| 8 | It is one of many ancient Egyptian obelisks to be found all over the civilised world : in Paris and Istanbul as well as London — Rome has a dozen of them — although there are still plenty on the banks of the Nile . |
| 9 | You 're then taken down into the operating theatre and the first injection you are given is usually something on the lines of erm er special K , ketomine or the most common one is |
| 10 | Oh he said oh I 'd like to give it all a good he wants to clean it there 's always something on the floor , it 's like a erm lino , it 's probably but all bigger squared |
| 11 | And like they on the bus , yeah , cos all , all the little school girls are sitting there with these huge tits out |
| 12 | The whole thing must be nearly over — hardly anything on the stalls — nothing to eat — people looking surreptitiously at their watches wondering if they were at all justified in slipping away home . |
| 13 | While you are fishing , keep an eye on what 's happening near you on the river . |
| 14 | Three chords and you could play just about anything on the album . |
| 15 | Okay now anything on the minuses apart from this suggestion that that could be both . |
| 16 | Well we on the beach on on the there , we went th we were there from morning till night wh during school holidays . |
| 17 | I can hot it on the hob . ’ |
| 18 | In the Three Essays on the theory of Sexuality ( 1905 ) there was almost nothing on the phase which followed the anal , and which became known as the phallic stage . |
| 19 | I remember visiting a remote island off the west coast of Ireland , and being struck by the fact that almost everyone on the island had the most enormous jug-handle ears . |
| 20 | Miami is a wonderful example of the art — the ocean , a long line of hotel pool areas and almost nobody on the beach in between . |
| 21 | But the UN , which is trying harder than SWAPO probably realised to be an honest broker , had almost nobody on the ground anyway . |
| 22 | Telephone campaigning is an expanding field and one that can be very effective , but it is open to misuse ; you can say almost anything on the telephone and campaigners have to be trained in the right technique . |
| 23 | The dealers say that barely anyone on the ISE 's ruling council has experience in the derivatives markets . |
| 24 | There was scarcely any unsavoury incident and certainly nothing on the scale of the problems at the same venue four years before when the American wives were hissed and cheers greeted almost all of their husbands unsuccessful shots . |
| 25 | Occasionally someone on the team will say , ‘ Oh , we must have so-and-so , ’ and someone else will shout back , ‘ You must be joking , I ca n't stand him ! ’ |
| 26 | and peasant antagonism ought to have been greatest and therefore you on the face of it it seems surprising does n't it that land reforms did n't take place immediately , or they were n't attempting land reform to take place immediately . |
| 27 | Because quite honestly we tell them absolutely everything on the phone before we we go . |
| 28 | Erm no in in terms of selling advertising we make sure that the prospective advertiser knows absolutely everything on the phone . |