Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know , the one where some lumbering forward finds himself on the openside and , just as he is about to get well and truly creamed , he ships the ball — and the whole of the opposition 's back row — over to you ? |
| 2 | The organizer taps someone on the head and that child has to tiptoe round the circle while ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ tries to point to the person . |
| 3 | Such sarcasm ill becomes anybody on the shaky ground that Goldschmidt here treads . |
| 4 | The management prides itself on the true Italian-style home cooking served in the dining-room , and the excellent roof-top terrace affords beautiful views over Sorrento and the Gulf of Naples . |
| 5 | This is a family-run hotel and the management prides itself on the fact that Citalia guests have always received a warm welcome . |
| 6 | Even Hermsprong ( 1796 ) , one of the first political novels , whose eponymous hero models himself on the noble savage , confines itself to great houses or to those that emulate them , while the savage himself , in true romance tradition , turns out to be an aristocrat , and the rightful heir to his wicked uncle 's estate . |
| 7 | Developed as a result of all the efforts being poured into the LCD screens for portable computers , the LCD tablet allows anything on the computer 's screen to be projected via an overhead projector onto a conventional screen . |
| 8 | What if a council finds itself on the brink ? |
| 9 | The Governor-General lays it on the line , no ‘ ifs ’ or ‘ buts ’ , and you — you do n't believe him . ’ |
| 10 | A butterfly sticks them on the leaves of the particular plant that her caterpillars eat ; a blowfly on the dead flesh that her maggots will relish ; and some wasps , for the sake of their young , become body-snatchers . |
| 11 | And even if the driver sees something on the line ahead of him , he usually can not stop in time . |
| 12 | With older children it could be that each child makes his/her own list on a piece of paper ; with younger children maybe we do it as a class , and the teacher writes everything on the blackboard ; or perhaps nothing is written down by individuals , with each giving what they will need to the teacher who 's a " quartermaster " . |
| 13 | Hungary 's Democratic Forum , whose Hungary-first populism puts it on the right , also objects to the pace of reform that the Free Democrats want . |
| 14 | With the disc , the lamprey clamps itself on the flank of a fish , and with the tongue it rasps off the flesh , eating the fish alive . |
| 15 | You had got perms and heaven knows what on the go . |
| 16 | The OALD prides itself on the number and quality of its examples — it contains far more than any comparable dictionary . |
| 17 | What really matters at the moment is that the rugby pot keeps itself on the boil , so that it wo n't need too much of a boost from the fickle flames of European International rugby , when it returns in the New Year , to reactivate the interest of the casual followers uncovered by the World Cup . |
| 18 | Cluster of four fielders round 's back now , they 're all crouching as Tufnell comes in to bowl to , is it an appeal from Tufnell as the ball raps him on the pad but he 's playing well forward , but the question Tufnell is asking really to John Hampshire is he playing a shot ? |
| 19 | If a secured creditor omits to disclose his security in his proof of debt , he must surrender it for the general benefit of creditors unless the court relieves him on the ground that omission was inadvertent or the result of honest mistake ( r 6.116 ) . |
| 20 | The surgeon mounts it on the side of the operating table and fixes to the end a surgical instrument or a biopsy needle for taking samples of tissue . |
| 21 | Sunday morning sees us on the way to one of the prettiest corners of the state of Vermont to visit top breeder 's herd VT Pond View . |
| 22 | The creature flings itself on the nearest character , crazed with pain and the desire to escape . |
| 23 | A wild midnight gallop lands her on the very doorstep of her ancestral home , and the fun and games commence . |
| 24 | I mean we 've got , four , four , four cars in our house , the gran lives in the granny annexe inside , god knows how the fucking hell she got a parking space , somehow she did , mum 's got her 's in there , my old mans parked his opposite , we 've got a big double drive as well , my old man parks his on the right and I park mine on the fucking left , its like a parking lot out there in the mornings , and if when he says |
| 25 | Women compositors did not want equal pay , she wrote , for no girl of sense puts herself on the level of a comp all round but if the division of labour assigns her a task she can perform , what reason is there she should not do so ? |
| 26 | The project prides itself on the intensive post-placement support offered to the children by their old key workers , and to the family by the family placement worker . |
| 27 | This walk takes you on the coastal path around to Polkerris and then back to your start point on the Saints ' Way — a 35-mile route which crosses Cornwall from Padstow to Fowey . |
| 28 | 1 April : The Sun guns for Jack Straw , for having three houses : ‘ I 'm alright Jack — Shadow education minister lectures us on the scandal of private education from the luxury of his £300,000 cottage , his £200,000 town house and his £40,000 flat ! ’ |
| 29 | Keep the money the customer gives you on the till shelf ( DO NOT put the money straight into the till ) . |
| 30 | A book on composition bases itself on the assumption that the reader is already familiar with conventional harmonic principles . |