Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] on an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert had been vague about them on an embarrassing number of occasions . |
| 2 | A bond began to be formed when they asked Martin to place protection for them on an icy pitch just below the summit . |
| 3 | provide an opportunity for the debriefing of students , discussing both the work supervisor 's and tutor 's assessment of them on an individual basis . |
| 4 | Now here 's the interesting bit , in the next few minutes , I 'll be telling you how you can win the chance to travel with me on an all expenses paid trip . |
| 5 | Employers demanded that unions bargain with them on an industry-wide basis and their pressure was critical for the eventual securing of the industrial union principle of organisation . |
| 6 | We wanted to have an urgent word with him on an important matter . ’ |
| 7 | Now Sebastian is dead , long dead , and Alix is married to Brian Bowen , son of a saw polisher , grandson of a furnaceman , and often sits with him on an old settee in her stockinged feet . |
| 8 | It 's a matter of recognizing the anger in me on an everyday basis so that I do n't bottle it all up to the point of explosion . |
| 9 | Holding a joint of beef before him on an outstretched arm , he would wave his free hand over its surface in a gesture approaching a mystical rite , conferring upon the excellence of his merchandise a value far in excess of what the none-too-prosperous housewives of Reine hoped to pay . |
| 10 | If Paul Fisher , another rich escapee from the smog , was hoping to drag his native city into the line of 1746 fashion , he chose the wrong architect when he asked Isaac Ware to design Clifton Hill House for him on an awkward shelf of eastward-facing garden . |
| 11 | The opening of the Scherzo sounds remarkably like the twittering of birds in the trees , something I first noticed when it was played to me on an 1820s Graaf piano similar to the one owned by Schubert . |
| 12 | The short of mountaineer that invariably takes the empty berth next to you on an alpine refuge matrazenlager . |
| 13 | ‘ As a matter of interest , he specifically stressed that I must talk to you on an impersonal basis only . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , ’ Fabia agreed , but what was more than obvious to her , with Ven stressing , ‘ specifically ’ stressing , that Lubor talk to her on an impersonal basis only , was that he still did n't trust her not to ask personal questions about him . |
| 15 | Unless the tenant here was a statutorily protected tenant , as the premises were not let to her on an excluded tenancy she is entitled to the benefit of that protection . |
| 16 | Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends . |
| 17 | Kyle of Lochalsh is the next port of call , and the way to it from Plockton returns to the T-junction at Duirinish , turns along its main street and skirts the next village of Drumbuie , scene of a great hullabaloo two decades ago when a proposal to construct an oilrig installation off-shore was repulsed by spirited opposition , a home subsequently being found for it on an uninhabited shore of Loch Kishorn . |