Example sentences of "on [pron] [noun sg] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not realised how important it was before now ; had not understood how much their strength depended on them being of a single mind . |
| 2 | you 're gon na stand on my foot in a minute then I 'm gon na kick you in the bollocks with the other foot ! |
| 3 | I had to sit and hold on my lap like a baby ! |
| 4 | She 'd sat on my lap in a friendly way , true , but that was just so I could get a better fix on her rug . |
| 5 | She laid it on my lap in a soft caress . |
| 6 | I did not appreciate the irony of being knocked dead on my back with a bunch of flowers clasped to my chest . |
| 7 | During my annual medical check-up in 1987 , Dr Dingle discovered a blood irregularity , but as I was fighting fit he said it was probably just a virus and I was to forget about it during my impending holiday and to see him on my return for a second blood test . |
| 8 | Yeah , and I came , for three weeks I was coming down stairs on my bottom like a toddler , I could n't go from |
| 9 | This one meant either a crawl on my belly beneath a boulder , hoping to be able to escape out of the hole on the other side , or a wide sloping ledge on the right . |
| 10 | I , however , strutted out like a barnyard cock , booted and cloaked , a broad-brimmed hat on my head with a black and white plume hanging from it . |
| 11 | The policeman is civil and he lets me go , commenting on my eyesore of a car , warning me to get my tail-light repaired . |
| 12 | I might even see the remainder of my old Hyundai back on my desk as a loaner while ADM irons out the inevitable bugs in this Frankenstein 's monster I 'm creating . |
| 13 | D' you know that guy comes into my office about twice a day and perches on my desk like a bird of ill omen all ready to commiserate with me about my wretched lot ? |
| 14 | If I could not reassure her by telling her Neil was there , and watching , it was possible , more , probable , that she would insist either on my moving into a lodging in the village , or that some of the men from the village would keep watch on Otters ' Bay and the empty house . |
| 15 | She lies on top of me , breathing hard , head on my shoulder for a few minutes , then she stirs , pulls herself up so that I flop out of her and her hard little nipples stroke my chest . |
| 16 | In an interview with Fred Emery on BBC 's Panorama on 13 January , for example , he put the point in no fewer than three ways : ‘ I resigned on my judgement of a breakdown of constitutional procedures ’ ; ‘ I believe there was an affront to the Constitution ’ ; ‘ I decided there was a setting-aside of the Constitution and I resigned . ’ |
| 17 | I lay on my bed with a computer magazine and , from time to time , went to the window and looked down at the darkened street . |
| 18 | I lay on my bed in a cheap lodging house and cried and I tell you Ellen I wished I was with you and receiving your kindness which was great to me . |
| 19 | I once lied to Basil and this has been on my conscience for a long time . |
| 20 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
| 21 | I could not weep , though grief lay on my heart like a heavy stone . |
| 22 | When I walk out of the house and through the square on my way to a final peaceful meditation at my favourite bay view in trigo cebada , the young man from last night comes out of a doorway with a large cassette in his arms . |
| 23 | Whenever I go in a minicab on my way to a radio or television programme — the companies are kind enough to take us in a car — I end up discussing with the driver how he has come to Britain in the fairly recent past and now has a job driving round London . |
| 24 | ‘ I was just on my way to a meeting . ’ |
| 25 | This is something that 's been on my mind for a very long time and I mean , I , I , I think it 's about time we started getting rid of these things and updating our own toilets you know . |
| 26 | Mike , 47 , said : ‘ I did not want to be accepted on my fame as a comic . ’ |
| 27 | unannounced on my doorstep with a toothbrush |
| 28 | Since then the art world has begun to acknowledge his genius , and when you consider he 's probably about to become one of the most sought-after artists of his generation as his fame spreads outside Scandinavia you will understand my concern when a stranger appears on my doorstep with a curiously inadequate enquiry . |
| 29 | ‘ I read ridiculous things like Diana arriving on my doorstep in a pair of jeans which were absolute nonsense and fabrication , ’ she says . |
| 30 | I avoided the mob on the path by descending 200 feet sledging on my rucksack on a long snow bank . |