Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have therefore grouped them on a broad geological basis : sand , chalk , clay , and the gravels and loams of the coastal plain which probably also enjoys a modest climatic advantage over the rest of the county . |
| 2 | ‘ I rang the airport straight away — they 've booked me on the first flight out . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , ’ grunts Graeme Souness , as he ambles across the mahogany lined reception at Ibrox . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've caught me on a bad day , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 6 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 7 | Apparently Mr Baker had met him on a social occasion , and had been impressed by his traditionalist views . |
| 8 | Erm but they er have only done it on a localized basis . |
| 9 | ‘ You could have done it on the sly , like , arranged to speak to her in private . ’ |
| 10 | I 've even seen it on a Finnish bus-shelter . |
| 11 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 12 | You 've got me on the touhgest part of the course and I 'm quite out of breath . |
| 13 | Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know ! |
| 14 | And then you 've got him on the right hand side look making cheese , this is brother again , that 's not brother . |
| 15 | Billy 's been brilliant because we 've had him on an album-by-album deal , and he could have jumped ship , but he 's been really loyal . ’ |
| 16 | The Provisional IRA have also used it on a few occasions . |
| 17 | We 've got it on a two two five bearing |
| 18 | The bill was passed by the House by 273 votes to 154 ; the Senate had approved it on the previous day by 62 votes to 34 . |
| 19 | In arriving at these estimates I have based them on the following estimations and assumptions : |
| 20 | We 've already complimented you on the general pass rate . ’ |
| 21 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 22 | Unionists proved quite able to handle the new mass electorate , and their efforts to gear up to meet new challenges in and after 1911 had set them on the right road . |
| 23 | The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being . |
| 24 | He can console himself with a winter passage booked to Australia , and the knowledge that his talent and determined character have finally set him on a rightful path to the pinnacle of the game . |
| 25 | On a shelf was a pebble that had been polished by running water ; it was ovoid , a piece of granite about big enough to hold in a clenched fist ; a seam of quartz halved it on the diagonal . |
| 26 | You said you 'd spent it on a new banjo . ’ |
| 27 | So I wo n't go through the rest of it , it 's a long and er it 's just brought us on the same sort of thing , but what it proves is that we are getting somewhere and that is what I thought was rather important news , which I want to do . |
| 28 | His wife , who was alleged to have aided and abetted him on the second occasion was jailed for three years after a two-day trial . |
| 29 | On September 13 the Guangming Ribao , pilloried her on the front page under the headline , Dai Qing — the Rebellion ‘ Reporter ’ . |
| 30 | Seb entered the gipsy encampment warily , remembering the reception Boz and his friends had given him on an earlier visit . |