Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm surprised I have n't heard about you on the grapevine . |
| 3 | In short , Labour and the Liberal Democrats will have the argument won for them on the ground — and as long as they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation , rather than punitive redistribution , the current election election result has given them a platform from which effectively to challenge for power next time round . |
| 4 | Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time . |
| 5 | Yes , Mrs Jones , we have a room booked for you on the thirtieth of July — can I be of any assistance to you ? |
| 6 | I had an Abaya ( the long black gown ) which I had carried with me on the plane and a scarf to cover my hair , so I was able to enter the Ministry of Health without shocking the men too much . |
| 7 | Knitweave can be thought of as a stocking stitch fabric with the weaving yarn caught into it on the purl side . |
| 8 | Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back . |
| 9 | He looked at me as if I had trodden in something on the way in . |
| 10 | She thought of the times she had put her hand into Nick 's , how she had sat beside him on the grass only half an hour ago . |
| 11 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 12 | The idea of starting an airline had come to him on the demise of Laker Airways in February 1982 . |
| 13 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 14 | I have come across it on the American networks , where all script conferences are attended by a legal-looking chap whose only contribution is to say ’ We do not want to offend any groups ’ from time to time . |
| 15 | I wondered if her presence was an invitation ; I felt that if I stretched out my hand to grasp hers she would have sat by me on the bed . |
| 16 | He had already heard of us on the river grapevine , about our journey upriver with Muhammad and Milhaez and Romany . |
| 17 | Well I , I had n't heard of it on the telly , I |
| 18 | This is the means by which LCH becomes the exclusive counterparty to both seller and buyer in respect of a contract made between them on the market . |
| 19 | This was because human beings worked things out in their minds in terms of concepts and moral rules , and these concepts and rules were not things the individual made for himself on the spur of the moment . |
| 20 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |
| 21 | Now , new offices were being built for it on the other side of the road , but they were not quite ready , and meantime , the new publisher from the East and his editors functioned in an atmosphere of such utter confusion that it is doubtful if an efficiency expert could even have fought his way in through the door . |
| 22 | Unfair , maybe , but a horribly damaging allegation to have made about you on the eve of the Lions ' selection . |
| 23 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |
| 24 | I mean you get Sweet Fanny Adams done with them on the run up to Christmas anyway , E.l.S . |
| 25 | True , the word star could be loosely applied to him on the basis that he had ‘ starred ’ in more than a dozen films . |
| 26 | I would have said to you on the phone we do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 27 | I 'm sure I 've I said to you on the phone I think . |
| 28 | You can appreciate by the remarks my agent made to me on the telephone ( words which I swear I have not amended or distorted in any way at all ) just how big and unpleasant a problem I have sitting like a gibbering troll on my innocent shoulders . |
| 29 | Coy then took the DDI through the report Adam had made to him on the phone . |
| 30 | Sir Anthony concludes : ‘ A regulatory agency — which is what the Department were , at the time , in relation to the protection of investors — ought , to my mind , by definition adopt a rigorous and enquiring approach as regards material coming into its possession concerning an undertaking about which suspicions have been aroused , and also as regards representations made to it on the part of the undertaking in question . |