Example sentences of "on [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A policeman came to call on me that Thursday evening , after Angy 's body had been found , asking what time the class ended and where I went afterwards … that sort of thing . |
| 2 | I pile the CDs on top of the tapes which balance on my redundant vinyl collection that 's heaped on top of the ancient 78s I 've had for years . ’ |
| 3 | God knows what had possessed me to put my proper name on my real driving licence , but once it goes into the DVLC computer , it stays . |
| 4 | NCT has given me such a lot as I have moved twice when each of my children was 6 months , and as I attended really brilliant ante-natal classes before I had … and now that I am starting out on my ante-natal teacher training which will cost the branch £250 ( This is actually the cheapest training offered by any charity e.g. a Relate counsellor costs £600 to train ! ) , |
| 5 | ‘ On Saturday the 14th , I was carried off on my reserve team debut at Arsenal with ruptured anterior cruciate knee ligaments . |
| 6 | Putting on my best bedside manner , I went to the cheerful locals . |
| 7 | Q Please could you give me some advice on my male Geophagus steindachneri ? |
| 8 | ‘ My daughter told me she 'd spilt nail varnish on my new bedroom carpet . ’ |
| 9 | Lily , I 've on my new sailor suit . |
| 10 | I want to improve the performance on my 1973 Range Rover by installing a US V8 . |
| 11 | On my first visit Amman was an overgrown , untidy Arab village , surrounded by seven hills . |
| 12 | ‘ A Miss Dorothy Tuckey on my first training course . |
| 13 | ‘ And on my current strike rate it certainly could be during the England series . ’ |
| 14 | I show my palms and turn on my sweetest Bugs Bunny grin . |
| 15 | Pa is standing on my blue nursery stool . |
| 16 | I mean , if somebody says , ‘ Do n't step on my blue suede shoes ’ , and somebody comes over and steps on his blue suede shoes , what does that guy think is gon na happen to him ? ’ |
| 17 | Straight from school , I would catch a bus on my regular weekend pilgrimage to my Pop 's house , an hour across the city . |
| 18 | The smallest road I could find on my not-very-good road map headed south-east from Idar towards Kaiserslautern , through the hill country of the Bergland . |
| 19 | My people , I must admit I have written to Hot Press over the past few issues but due to the fact that I am concentrating on my forthcoming solo gig in the Attic on George 's Quay on November the 6th at 9 o'clock , ( cover charge £2 ) , be there or be square etc. , the standard of my letter writing has faltered somewhat . |
| 20 | There have also been several representations from those sitting on my left hand side , about the possible answers to question one D in the affirmative . |
| 21 | What I 'd ask for now er erm is a sort of general rounding up , summing up staring on my left hand side . |
| 22 | I followed the man , staying on my high woods path . |
| 23 | It is the lint and fluff on my old winter coat , stuck to the sleeves like dead bugs , and it is the same old towel hanging from the rack in my bathroom , stiff with decay but still pink , still the shape it was over a year ago , the last time I used it , the last time I shoved it across my stubborn wet flesh and up between my legs and rough through my tangle of sopping hair , the same hair , the same hair . |
| 24 | Tick a tick a , back on my old friend Jack . |
| 25 | Let me update you on my social security saga . |
| 26 | Here I am sitting on my little iron cot and feeling very lost without you , seasoned trooper though I may be . |
| 27 | Please let's have more pics and features on my favourite player Goran Ivanisevic . |
| 28 | I know Switzerland well , or did on my own time track . |
| 29 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 30 | Having taken the plunge and opened the package I was delighted to find that the software is n't copy protected — no problems running it on my hard disk systems here , or so I thought . |