Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb -s] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My cat piddles on the carpet and yawns . |
| 2 | My ash falls on the floor . |
| 3 | My eye falls on the geraniums by the window , which all the way through this conversation , presumably , have been continuing to scent the office air . |
| 4 | My head lolls on the window glass . |
| 5 | Then the scuffles subside and I think I hear my bedroom door opening , so my finger tightens on the trigger and I hear my name and I shake my head and I recognize the voice and I know it is Jancey and she 's shouting where am I and I think they 've grabbed her and made her act the decoy and I 'm trying to work out what to do when I hear what she 's saying . |
| 6 | My daughter plays on the floor |
| 7 | The shadow of my hand quivers on the page . |
| 8 | My advice to my touch judges on the action to take is ‘ what would you have done if you had the whistle in your hand instead of a touch flag ’ ? |
| 9 | My motion centres on the level of employment , because there are 2 , 700 more people in employment in Shrewsbury now than there were a decade ago . |
| 10 | My mother hovers on the brink of life , not knowing whether her heroic struggle will be worth even a fraction of the effort she expends . |
| 11 | Its removal depends on the findings of a two-day symposium on bovine spongiform encephalopathy scheduled to be held in Brussels in September . |
| 12 | Back room stage so small the performers have to rest their mike stands on the floor in front . |
| 13 | Their case lies on the counter like a mussel , |
| 14 | trace their insect trails on the flat water . |
| 15 | Their usefulness depends on the task you have in hand . |
| 16 | British Coal knows its future depends on the outcome of the election . ’ |
| 17 | The first two are necessarily variables , in that their meaning depends on the time and circumstance in which they are used ; ‘ style ’ , however , can be defined as possessing a constant and specific property . |
| 18 | Its falsity hinges on the fictional nature of the dichotomy between ‘ family ’ and ‘ work ’ and on the meaning of the term ‘ work ’ . |
| 19 | Its magnitude depends on the borehole geometry , resistivity contrast between mud , formation and cap rock , formation thicknesses and location of the casing shoe . |
| 20 | Eileen , from Sedgley , West Midlands , leaves work at her son 's butcher 's shop every Tuesday to go to Burton Road Hospital in nearby Dudley and returns after completing her trolley rounds on the wards . |
| 21 | Its output depends on the difference between these two inputs . |
| 22 | The insect combines the information from all the rhabdoms to produce a picture , and its definition depends on the number of ommatidia . |
| 23 | Once more her argument rests on the potential of self-evaluation to influence change . |
| 24 | Many set the odds on Rank achieving his ambitions very low indeed , seemingly believing that , as Eric Ambler was later to remark , ‘ a policy of selling British cars to America with their steering wheels on the right would have had the same chance of success . ’ |
| 25 | Nonindividualistic conceptions are likely to be among the expensive tastes since their realization depends on the cooperation of others , and they will take some convincing to come round to the agent 's point of view . |
| 26 | The strategy 's objective is to achieve a patient record that will be accessible wherever a patient is treated and to build on that record an entire clinical information system , so its success depends on the support of doctors . |
| 27 | Gadansk 's Honour is a possible for the 1,000 Guineas at the following Newmarket meeting , but her participation depends on the performance of Miznah in tomorrow 's Nell Gwyn Stakes . |
| 28 | The oscillatory rhythm resulting from repetition of the cycle is therefore myogenic and its frequency depends on the mechanical properties of the cuticular thoracic wall . |
| 29 | Because the widespread poverty of older women and the penury experienced by some groups among them derive to a considerable extent from the operation of social and economic policies within patriarchal capitalism , any major change in their status rests on the development of alternative policies . |
| 30 | Their explanation relies on the ‘ turnover costs ’ that would be involved : the fact that insiders are more productive because they have had more on-the-job training ; that such training may well come from insiders who on being sacked will not be there to supply it ; that harassment via picket lines , the ‘ angry silence ’ , etc. , can be employed even by displaced insiders , that the unpopular act of replacing a whole work-force is likely to cost the firm in terms of lost' good-will ‘ . |