Example sentences of "[indef pn] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of his salary in national insurance , someone on the Prime Minister 's salary pays 3 per cent . |
| 2 | Someone on the far side of the cloisters made a joke in Dutch and another gaggle of European youths burst into laughter . |
| 3 | Even though she 'd been dead for so long it could sometimes seem that she was still with him , a presence in the next room , someone on the other side of a door who waited and listened but who never stepped through , except when he dreamed . |
| 4 | This has subsequently been changed , but suggests the view the SFA might take ; it would be logical for it to do so , since a market counterparty of this type is supposed to be someone on the same level as the firm . |
| 5 | You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him . |
| 6 | If you 're on a sailing or windsurf holiday you may still book without a supplement if you 're willing to share with someone on the same holiday . |
| 7 | Should you not suspend the sitting until there is someone on the Tory Benches who is capable of walking over and picking up the notes to the Minister ? |
| 8 | ‘ Someone on the Coptic side wants to keep things on the boil , wants to stop agreement from being reached . |
| 9 | Finally , on Sunday morning Emerson woke up to find it raining — and Monza is not the track for rain , nor is rain a help to someone on the third row of the grid . |
| 10 | ‘ You think there 's someone on the Moslem side who 's got an interest in keeping things on the boil ? ’ asked Georgiades . |
| 11 | Either someone on the German side understood English or the TARDIS 's telepathic circuits were at work again , because the Germans also began dashing for the exits on their side of the cavern . |
| 12 | Close to it at a March meeting in 1585 accusations of a theft of some Scottish spurs and counter-accusations of ‘ a pretended matter beforehand ’ began to fly to and fro , until without warning someone on the Scottish side shot and killed Russell . |
| 13 | Detectives say someone on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night . |
| 14 | In fact nobody on the entire establishment could say it except Charlie the farm foreman and he only though the could say it . |
| 15 | Somebody on the other side of the curtain brushed against my knees . |
| 16 | They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise ! |
| 17 | Well perhaps you or somebody on the other side might care to tell us how you 're gon na take it from three to three and half , cos I 'll quite happily tell you then how we 'll take it from three and half to four percent , so we welcome that as a step in the right direction . |
| 18 | Even under the old Labour scheme somebody on £130 a week would pay £26 in national insurance — employers and employees contributions combined — whereas under the Conservative proposals somebody on the same earnings would pay only £19.24 . |
| 19 | The Economist described the situation vividly : ‘ Whenever one hears somebody on the French radio vituperating against ‘ adventurers ’ one can be sure that M. Cohn-Bendit or some other leftist student is the target . |
| 20 | He made no comment on Lesley 's invitation and Charlotte 's acceptance of it , none on the curious complexities which had confounded their own relationship since they left ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ two hours and more ago . |
| 21 | Because here 's the weird thing about these relationships with women : you get everything on the first date . |
| 22 | He was so dangerously persuasive — and it would be all too convenient to blame everything on the absent Miss Philimore . |
| 23 | Certainly , the only go , the only way I run a shift , the way she runs checkouts , is erm , by going , you , it 's the same thing every day , you 've got to run through everything on the same point order , because you know , you 've been doing it , it 's got to be done at the same time , like bread the last lot 's got to be on by four . |
| 24 | ‘ Everything on the top line ? ’ |
| 25 | And he had to say something on the bloody tape did n't he ? |
| 26 | ‘ They wo n't have regular fashion articles , but might have something on the political significance of hemlines . ’ |
| 27 | Yeah , yeah , cos our , our be inclined to leave something on the front door step and go . |
| 28 | we 'll sor we 'll find you something something on the mellow side , June . |
| 29 | I think you need something on the other panel , above the oculist charts , he said at last . |
| 30 | He was wrestling with something on the other side of that landing door , pushing open the door with one foot and shouting : ‘ Come on , then ! |