Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have my breakfast to cook and today 's the day of the Two Thousand Guineas , I ca n't keep my mind on everything at the one time . " |
| 2 | He made a pun on it for the title of his revue Cranks . |
| 3 | However , it is true that many people have succeeded in shedding weight on them in the past . |
| 4 | Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman . |
| 5 | Do you remember those lovely Himalayas with snow on them in the distance , the picnics out to Wildflower Hall ( Lord Kitchener 's old residence ) , the horrible rock pythons twined round an Indian 's neck ( they were harmless ) , the lepers that bothered Rachel , and the teas at Davico 's ? |
| 6 | For Anna , pregnant at eighteen ) her stretch marks had had quite a devastating effect on her by the time she was eight months pregnant . |
| 7 | But also , in this reductio ad absurdum of masculine sexuality , men become redundant as the women threaten to perform phallic violence on themselves in the attempt to forestall male violence ( Genevora to the duellists ) : ‘ The first blow given betwixt you , sheathes these swords/In one anothers bosomes ’ ( 177 — 8 ) . |
| 8 | The sponsors of the bill made clear their intention to press for a vote on it within the current legislative session . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's just like a piano and so much so that we have n't even got one at home and I did n't practice on one before the competition I can just switch to playing it instead of a piano , ’ said Lisa . |
| 10 | And the other thing about the I-s is if you make sure you put a dot on them on the top then if it looks a bit like if you people ca n't tell that you 've done an E or an I , if you 'd a dot on top it 's got to be an I . |
| 11 | ‘ The first job , of course , was to try to find any traces of nitroglycerine on anybody in the club or in their rooms . |
| 12 | In the Preface he described the superstitions of the Irish peasantry and the rigid hold on them of the Roman Catholic priests , who used all means to confine them to the Irish language , lest if they learnt English they might converse with members of the Church of Ireland or attend its services . |
| 13 | To see it , is another matter — such is the hold on us of the myth of mental processes . |
| 14 | Federman has fully digested Beckett 's influence on him to the point of formulating carefully thought-out positions on the new direction fiction will take . |
| 15 | She felt a flood of heat as he stared down at her , felt the deepening intensity of his gaze on her in the few seconds before his mouth descended slowly to take possession of her lips . |
| 16 | ‘ Is this how princes use their power and privilege ? ’ she raged , and his hands loosened their grip on her at the fury in her face . |
| 17 | Keynes began work on it during the worst year of the slump , under a government which had slammed the door on his favourite project of public works . |
| 18 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
| 19 | That was why Aunt Alicia took pity on him in the first place , Jenny had said , because he had nowhere to put his horses . |
| 20 | ‘ It means , mother , that Craig is trying to put the blame on me for the thieving he 's done . ’ |
| 21 | Unfortunately it has not paid for the creation of a large modern high-tech manufacturing sector or created permanent jobs in the service sector on anything like the scale required for the future . |
| 22 | You know the wood on them over the years it 's |
| 23 | Enough death and suffering already laid blood-guilt on her over the old guilts from home . |
| 24 | Then they cut the PA on us at the end of the show , turned the lights on us before our time was up , and cut my power . |
| 25 | Lin Foh hesitated , frowned , then glanced back at the two young Foreign Office men ; they were hardly protection for the Colonel ; rather , were deliberately overt presences with him , keeping an eye on him on the instruction of the Foreign Secretary . |
| 26 | ‘ I was rather wondering , Uncle , ’ he smiled at the man who had kept a fatherly eye on him from the age of ten , ‘ how you felt about serving some of that excellent champagne I know you have in your cellar . ’ |
| 27 | Keep it in the quarantine tank , cease medication and keep an eye on it for the next few months . |
| 28 | Well it was the same no distinction at all in that sense , but er you know we were sort of they had more serious things to talk about than I wan er you know I knew the cook , er couple of o other apprentices from the carpenters shop we used to go into the main th there was no-one to keep an eye on us in the in the mess-room you see , no-one to tell us . |
| 29 | From this point on everyone in the movie starts colliding like large tankers with their navigation shot to hell . |
| 30 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |