Example sentences of "on [noun] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of which was the property in Frinton which was owned jointly by Mr and his step mother who was an elderly lady who was then residing in that er property and er around that time on the first of October Mr er telephoned Mr and er told him about that but at that time , was not anticipating that there would be an difficulties about the security on Frinton for these he had always , added his case , made it perfectly clear to the man at the National Westminster Bank with whom he was dealing , Mr that that property was not a property which er could er be offered as security because of the joint ownership and er while in conversation with the bank he understood that this letter had been sent and Mrs had been on holiday and that it was simply oversight on the part of the bank at this stage and that all would well after Mrs returned , which was expected in two weeks time . |
| 2 | The musée at Villeneuve is an appropriate setting for an exhibition on Laurens in that it is the permanent home of the Dutilleul-Masurel collection , donated by Jean Masurel in 1979 and containing works by Braque , Picasso and Laurens , Leger , Modigliani , Derain , Miró , Klee and others . |
| 3 | In the 1920s , when von Frisch was carrying out similar experiments on honeybees to those he had done with fish , he noticed that although initially a lone bee came to his food dish , soon afterwards many bees came . |
| 4 | He received an honorary LLD at Birmingham and St Andrews ; on retirement in 1935 he was made emeritus professor at Manchester . |
| 5 | On days like this you 'll only hear the sound of frost crunching , not sandwich munching . |
| 6 | On days like this she resolutely closed her mind to worries about Weenie and Co. , put thoughts about Peter aside , and concentrated on herself . |
| 7 | They buy the records and the video , so on days like this I must come out and see them and say ‘ Thank you ’ because I am in their debt . |
| 8 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 9 | When he re-emerged on record in 1987 he was ready for all comers and quickly established a reputation as the upcoming DJ . |
| 10 | In his Essay on Population in 1803 he was the first person to consider what would happen if the world 's population were to continue to grow unabated . |
| 11 | Cops and Perks and Eladeldi and the bloody Capellans out on Charon for all she knew . |
| 12 | I suppose you have not squandered money which is not your own on gowns like that you have on ! ’ |
| 13 | On top of that they have an extra cost other shops are spared — the royalty payable to the franchise provider . |
| 14 | Accordingly , father , sons and one daughter all brought wages home , and on top of that they had seven and sixpence a week from their lodger . |
| 15 | On top of that they have a random check system whereby a number of estates are sampled . |
| 16 | The framers of the American Constitution also had these objects in mind , but on top of that they had to provide for the desire of the thirteen colonies to be united for some purposes only and to remain independent for others . |
| 17 | And then on top of that we got Gerry Sheppard who did the chanting and the ‘ heys ’ on all those Glitter Band records . |
| 18 | But what the Opposition call a modernised valuation system has more components than a car manufactured in the constituency of the hon. Member for Dagenham , and on top of that we are promised a revaluation every year . |
| 19 | I 'm sure that there was some cash left from the bond scheme with the number of people that subscribed , on top of that we are fourth in the gates league with nearly 38000 on saturday agianst THEM . |
| 20 | On top of that it has a whole life of its own with sports , a nightly disco , live music , and a daily English film . |
| 21 | ‘ Gosh , I 'm so sorry I 'm late , I 've had a terrible journey and on top of that I 've got the flu . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got a headache , I 'm stuck here in this damned house , you keep following me around and annoying me , and on top of that I ca n't work ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And on top of that I 've got a date with the company minibus at half-past nine tomorrow morning . |
| 24 | on top of that I ca n't understand it I mean do , alright , have , but if the petrol 's gone up , it has n't gone up that much |
| 25 | I I 've got some mashed potato and carrot there I 'm going to put some onion on top of that I 'm going put |
| 26 | Er denim jacket on top of that I think . |
| 27 | It 's a valve-driven box with four separate switchable channels — jazz , funk , blues and rock — and on top of that you have the usual gain and master volume controls , EQ for treble , mid and bass and a switchable mid-boost . |
| 28 | On top of that you 've got no alibi for the time of the murders . ’ |
| 29 | On top of that you get compensation which is a maximum of ten thousand pounds and depends on erm whether you 've got another job , erm whether you 've contributed towards your own dismissal , and I think th the tribunal would knock something off for that . |
| 30 | If on top of that you say well let us have some independent people to some others who were elected councillors will find that they are not also on the police authority and that causes problems . |