Example sentences of "of [pron] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That scream went like a knife into the heart of everyone on the train . |
| 2 | ‘ After a day he will know the names of everyone on the set and he goes to great lengths to make sure we all enjoy ourselves , organising lunches and so on . |
| 3 | Her name is Elisa Stasi and that 's the last bit of information you 're getting out of me on the subject . |
| 4 | Our favourite photo was taken of me on the marble slab . |
| 5 | At one point in 1987 I was bowling up the M6 talking to a colleague in London on my ‘ hands-off ’ Cellnet phone — it had a microphone in front of me on the visor . |
| 6 | In the family album are some photographs of me on the lawn with Susannah , my Indian ayah , to whom I was devoted . |
| 7 | If one of those things does n't t ally with the record of me on the machine , then the doors will lock — including the doors to the elevators — and alarms will sound in about twenty places on the compound as well as in New York . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm happy to cruise along in traffic on the road but when there is someone in front of me on the track , I become quite mad . |
| 9 | P. E. A man dropped dead in front of me on the street and I took him to the mortuary and I got into trouble over it because I did n't search the body properly . |
| 10 | I kicked pebbles ahead of me on the path up from my caravan to my mother 's hotel and , with each ‘ thwok ’ , my terrible adolescent idealism was refuted . |
| 11 | Three hearings took place , two of them on the afternoon of 1 May . |
| 12 | Ahead of them on the stretcher was Eve , her face white . |
| 13 | I pass a great variety of them on the way to school and I myself actually live , work and play in some of them . |
| 14 | I guess I wanta play polo better so I can beat the shit out of them on the field . ’ |
| 15 | You let go of them on the Moon . |
| 16 | Sound thrust out of them on the milling pavement . |
| 17 | As usual , there were five of them on the village green , waiting for the school bus . |
| 18 | They were so close now he could feel the wind of them on the back of his neck . |
| 19 | And that 's when , you see during I can just remember previous to the war them coming there and then of course during the war there was very very few of them on the road then and then after the war they started to come back and that 's when this Billy and Harry and that came up from the side . |
| 20 | By now the Bonnard Renault must be a good 900 kilometres ahead of them on the road , and somewhere near Budapest . |
| 21 | He has made cars cheaper which is going to put more of them on the road . |
| 22 | With a stock exchange investigation under way into heavy trading in Dixons ' options ahead of the announcement , it emerged that as many as 300 people would have known of the bid shortly beforehand , many of them on the credit committees of lending banks . |
| 23 | Everyone stands at one end of the room with their eggs in front of them on the floor . |
| 24 | I do n't know though I mean he , he 's , he 's allowed that , he allowed that the fact that they could of been unarmed men and all that but he also condemned three of them on the evidence of this lead which he really should n't of done , he should of left an open verdict on those few cos lead could be transferred to . |
| 25 | Rose held two of them on the palm of her hand . |
| 26 | Yeah , and I said erm , and I said that were n't , if that was n't enough I said bearing in mind he 'd just come out of intensive care off a life support machine , I said and which I think that , that tells us that he needs a bit of extra care compared to some of them on the ward , I said I know they 're all important and I know you 're busy but I said I think you should 've had a bit of priority , he was dying , and you know he 's dying , you 'd been told , she said yes that 's right , I said but what really broke my bloody heart was from one o'clock that dinner time he sat in that chair , we left that hospital at half past eight and you assured us he 'd go to bed and when we came in the next morning at half past ten Joy he sat there exactly the bloody same , in the same filthy blanket and the same catheter on him , oh I went fucking mad and I said how dare you , I said because somebody 's told they 're dying does that mean they 've got to be forgot ? |
| 27 | Then with about 7 minutes to go , Goodmans speed got through the defence again and Beeny could only parry his low shot for Gray ( there was about 5 of them on the pitch ) to tap in . |
| 28 | Lots of them on the market . |
| 29 | Many spectators had squatted on the dunes surrounding the 6th , most of them on the Maiden itself . |
| 30 | She was held by the disturbing events of the night , and here was her chance to wait out a better understanding of them on the spot . |