Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Stretch up as if you are trying to reach something on the top shelf of the kitchen at home and you know you are going to succeed . |
2 | It is unwise to erect one on a grassed area unless you use scaffold boards to spread the load |
3 | I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm only going on the fact that I I tend to do everything on the cheap so I tend to get if I can find somebody who does photocopying I can do it then we 'll do it . |
4 | Yeah , yeah , cos our , our be inclined to leave something on the front door step and go . |
5 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |
6 | Perhaps that 's because being a larger lady I prefer to have something on the large side rather than the small ! |
7 | And he had to say something on the bloody tape did n't he ? |
8 | Ask Mr. if he wants to say anything on the main motion . |
9 | Did you want to say anything on the main motion now er thank you . |
10 | No doubt , as the election approaches , the Conservatives will seek to blame everything on the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) — a close friend of the Chancellor , whom I am glad to see in the Chamber . |
11 | He was so dangerously persuasive — and it would be all too convenient to blame everything on the absent Miss Philimore . |