Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're well-disposed enough , all the Percy tribe , because their own holdings are in the north , and they have nothing to lose here on the Welsh border . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps someone got through on a short-wave transmitter ? ’ |
| 3 | Outside , sprockets whirred as someone rode past on a bicycle . |
| 4 | But I quite see that you need someone to come in on a practical issue like what to do about his tenants . |
| 5 | ‘ What was once a one mile journey into Garrison for someone living just on the other side of the border became a 26 mile round trip . |
| 6 | At the same time I could hear someone tapping frantically on the glass door of the kiosk , someone far too anxious to clamber in with me . |
| 7 | Evening , music , a drink , and someone coming home on the six-eighteen . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've got someone coming in on a blue light , a young man who 's fallen under a train . |
| 9 | Before Taczek could say anything more someone tapped rapidly on the door . |
| 10 | For example , someone setting out on a journey to a malarial zone would be best advised to rely on drugs rather than trusting the stars ' message alone as a protection against the disease . |
| 11 | ‘ Someone pull in on the fishing-line , ’ he ordered . |
| 12 | One of the first questions you get asked of anybody when they first come on a training course here , er , certainly a sort of foundation course , is that somebody writes up on the board there T N T , and says what does that stand for ? |
| 13 | It was rather pathetic sometimes because he was upset at somebody going down on a discipline charge and getting the sack . |
| 14 | Nobody talked much on the way out . |
| 15 | In fact nobody said much on the way back . |
| 16 | Probably not , if one insists absolutely on the principle of non-repetition . |
| 17 | ‘ She went , because Nicola was never one to miss out on a chance to push herself forward . |
| 18 | In the thick of a stubborn recession , his Government portfolio is a tricky one to carry around on the General Election campaign . |
| 19 | But she shared one crucial thing with the whole of that community , friends and enemies : awareness that the struggle was not just a Scottish matter , but something fought out on the international stage . |
| 20 | The transit baggage had not been loaded and customs officials and police were insisting on all cases being opened and everything laid out on the floor . |
| 21 | The more one looks back on the record the more one is impressed by the role of Mrs Thatcher as a dominant figure and as an illustration of the power of the Prime Minister . |
| 22 | The shop assistant 's attention was suddenly caught by something happening out on the road , in the passing traffic . |
| 23 | It is difficult to draw a line between a company car that is a pure perk and one used constantly on the job by a salesman or service engineer . |
| 24 | One party would be returned to office with an overall majority and implement its manifesto program , a program neither known nor supported by most electors and one drawn up on the basis more of party dogma than of a dispassionate and well-informed analysis of Britain 's problems . |
| 25 | Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic . |
| 26 | I could leave everything lying about on the floor and nothing would get broken ! |
| 27 | We seem to have a labour party that treats education as some kind of middle class hobby that thinks of education spending as something spent only on the bourgeoisie , something to do with a university , something not really important for ordinary people . |
| 28 | In common with most teenagers , David took a couple of part-time jobs , one riding around on a pushbike with a basket on the front for a butcher , and another working for a record shop owned by Vic Furlong . |
| 29 | Yet , property taxes on Pocahontas-Kentucky 's surface land hardly yield enough to buy a bus for the county school system , and the $76 the county receives as payment on the mineral rights would not buy the bus a new tyre to replace the one worn out on the county 's unpaved and rough coal-hauling roads . ’ |
| 30 | So today at RAF Lyneham they made sure everything went right on the ground before they got in the air . |