Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ . |
| 2 | it 's just some noise I heard on the tape . |
| 3 | God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 5 | And it could turn out that the car I left on the Foulness road was stolen from a car park in Colchester or somewhere . |
| 6 | Checking a positive climb and flicking up the quick-retracting gear I concentrated on the slow process of building speed , getting the flaps in at 130 and maintaining a gentle increase in height with steady acceleration to 170 knots , when the nose can be raised for 3,000 fpm to show on the VSI as she really starts to go . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's the same side which finished on a high by winning the Divisional Premiership final at Old Trafford last May , apart from Aussie second row Paul Carr . |
| 8 | Now in that room at Fontainebleau so many years ago , I studied Francis but my eyes were drawn to that bloody ring which sparkled on the fourth finger of his left hand . |
| 9 | A club which exists on a shoestring budget could have elected to play Rangers on a neutral ground , and made at least four times the amount of money Arbroath will get from next month 's Cup tie . |
| 10 | It is the lineage which rests on a ‘ community of dispositions and interests ’ and has common ‘ ownership of the material and symbolic patrimony ’ . |
| 11 | It is not surprising that the Home Office has commissioned research which focuses on the criminal justice process rather than wider child care concerns . |
| 12 | In order to wean the company away from a reliance on theatre plays , he set up a major script department which drew on the talents of writers like Frank Launder , Sidney Gilliatt , Val Guest and Michael Pertwee , as well as occasionally giving jobs to young writers like Christopher Isherwood . |
| 13 | This study which builds on a previous study of social class variations in surgical rates , focuses on women suffering from menorrhagia ( heavy bleeding ) — a common indication for hysterectomy . |
| 14 | The slot for the fielded panel at the bottom of the curved members , needed a template which rested on the wood at each end of the slot to which I glued and screwed a 50 x 50 batten , the slot being routered to the correct depth in the middle and slightly oversize at each end . |
| 15 | These feelings of dwindling authority and social discontinuity which focused on the young were informed by the wider political insecurities of this anything-but-carefree era which was plagued by engulfing fears of national decline and incohesion . |
| 16 | David Hall exhibited at MOMA an elegant piece which drew on the lost potentialities of the Nipkow disc , mechanical heart of the early Baird Televisor , ‘ superseded ’ and eradicated by a progress which has been synonymous with standardization . |
| 17 | This term should only be applied to patients who fulfil the following conditions : ( i ) have a normal jejunal biopsy while taking a normal diet ; ( ii ) at some other time , before or since , have had a flat jejunal biopsy which recovers on a gluten free diet . |
| 18 | The subjective estimate could be based on pure hunch and guesswork at the end of period t - 1 , but in order to introduce a degree of empirical testability into the model it is normally assumed that is arrived at by some policy rule which includes on the right-hand side only those variables whose magnitudes are known at the end of the period t - 1 . |
| 19 | This light emulsion contains an ultra-fine powder ingredient which sits on the skin and alters the rate at which light bounces off it : the result is a complexion which refuses to look or act its age . |
| 20 | She kicked a tin which lay on the pavement . |
| 21 | Where a lease creates a term of years which is expressed to run from some date earlier than that of the execution of the lease , the term created will be a term which begins on the date the lease is executed , and not the earlier date . |
| 22 | The emphasis on the needs and best interests of the child in legislation , plus the traditional , case-based , local government structure of accountability generate a model of practice which focuses on the individual child and family . |
| 23 | Caffeine is found in varying amounts in coffee ( and tea ) , and is a stimulant which acts on the nervous system . |
| 24 | The result was periodic clashes between the government and organizations such as Protestant Action which insisted on the right to march where they wished . |
| 25 | He goes on to develop a theory of communicative action which focuses on the exchange of ideas and meanings in contrast to the exchange of goods . |
| 26 | There was n't one correct entry for 's crossword published in the last issue — so how about this new quiz which arrived on the editor 's desk via pensioner . |
| 27 | Working in India in a film industry which thrives on the sexual exploitation of women , Dhanraj spoke of the impossibility of positing a desiring female subject . |
| 28 | as good as the frictional force you get on the bottom . |
| 29 | Enclosure as a subject for poetry is usually associated with Oliver Goldsmith who touched on the question in ‘ The Traveller ’ ( 1764 ) , before producing ‘ The Deserted Village ’ ( 1770 ) . |
| 30 | I mean it 's no good you starting on the S and the T. |