Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] on [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 2 | What 's the strangest place you have ever woken to find yourself on a Sunday morning ? |
| 3 | Where would you most like to find yourself on a Sunday morning ? |
| 4 | His father objected that the police had arrested him unlawfully , because the law lays it down that no-one is allowed to do on Sunday the work by which he earns a living , and the police were therefore not allowed to arrest anybody on a Sunday . |
| 5 | He offered to sell it on the Keele campus . |
| 6 | They are lovely to visit — especially when you want to feast yourself on a Dorset cream tea — but it is the rolling countryside and stunning coastline which attract the many lovers of the outdoors . |
| 7 | you know what I mean , erm to play them on a Sunday which |
| 8 | My dad used to buy it , always used to buy it on a Sunday evening . |
| 9 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We sell it as a novelty and make people sign a declaration saying they understand it is illegal to use it on the UK phone system . |
| 11 | But at £2 each , they are expensive and last year the Department of Health ordered GPs not to prescribe them on the NHS . |
| 12 | Tommy Roberts used to phone me on a Saturday when I first started working there . |
| 13 | There is talk of a film of The Factory Whistle , with Alan Bates , and they are going to read it on the BBC too . |
| 14 | Hamilton elected to station himself on the Queen Elizabeth , de Robeck 's flagship . |
| 15 | I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday . |
| 16 | ‘ And Spain was a cosy hideaway for our export villains ; ergo , her boyfriend was waiting for her to join him on the Costa del Crook . ’ |
| 17 | Sorry to bother you on a Sunday morning . ’ |