Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun prp] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the summer , while Branson was away in Europe on business , Joan , now six months pregnant , returned to Scotland for a holiday . |
| 2 | Drew also quite liked an excuse to get away from Sukey on summer evenings . |
| 3 | Since I have been away at Scarborough on holiday I got the YEP every day and the special Leeds edition that they do every season . |
| 4 | his dad , played for Lincoln City and once for Darlington on loan ; eldest brother Mark was on Hartlepool 's books and now enjoys Northern League football with Murton . |
| 5 | El Rey , a 1:35 drum solo track featuring the explosive Watts , the sardonic Steepian Faith ( written by Kirkland , with Marsalis on alto ) , Bud Powell 's Celia ( lightly à la cumbre ) , and Kirkland 's Blasphemy , both with Kirkland on electronics and with drummer Don Alias the sole accompaniment . |
| 6 | He had travelled widely in America on behalf of peaceful arbitration of international disputes and in 1893 had persuaded the Commons to resolve in favour of an Anglo-American Treaty of Arbitration . |
| 7 | Green sometimes accompanied by his wife , was often in Keswick on business ( he would set off walking from Ambleside , and be picked up by the carrier at Wyburn ) and would call to visit his children , and take them out for walks down to Derwentwater . |
| 8 | As usual , much was made of the fact that he was younger brother to the wildly successful Peregrine , now in Japan on tour with his group . |
| 9 | And , quickly taking her name on board , ‘ You are here in Czechoslovakia on business and holiday , Fabia , I think ? ’ |
| 10 | After a short period back in Baghdad , Winchester returned to Britain to command 241 Field Company , which was then in Scotland on mountain training . |
| 11 | Overnight in Aswan on board . |
| 12 | For the sake of brevity , and because the point is clear , I quote again from Cross on Evidence , at pp. 423–424 : |
| 13 | I refer again to Cross on Evidence , p. 418 , where the statement of Goddard L.J . |
| 14 | And never more so than recently in Switzerland on holiday with Jack , and friends Julia and Gerry . |