Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course Francis had thought about it as something that was inevitable , and he had plans , but they had never seemed very real and he had looked on them as castles in the air . |
| 2 | They treat such dissertations in an entirely different way from Ph D theses , generally appearing to put a lower value on them as contributions to the science . |
| 3 | Cut the tomatoes in half and then make faces on them with pieces of cheese , olive or egg . |
| 4 | Little specific attention was paid to older people in the White Paper , Working for Patients , nor to the effect on them of changes in the GP contract , but the implications of the changes for the care of older patients may be significant . |
| 5 | Preston 's maternal grandad , his Great-Uncle Eddie and a cousin called Pete had all died from having things dropped on them from cranes down the docks . |
| 6 | Yet the time may come when the unions will have expiated their follies of the sixties and seventies , partly through the rationalisation and mergers of the past decade , partly through reforms forced on them by changes in the law during the eighties , partly by a public rediscovery that trade unions are a necessary part of a free society . |
| 7 | This is the thesis that women 's morality , which in certain vital respects , particularly in relation to sexual behaviour , often differs from men 's , has been imposed on them by centuries of conditioning by men . |
| 8 | The need continually to monitor one 's standards of attainment may be new to some teachers , but is an essential part of self- evaluation : community language teachers may not be ready for the responsibilities placed on them in terms of analysing pupils ' needs and progress , or in terms of raising the status of a language . |
| 9 | Northwich , Middlewich and Nantwich , as well as Droitwich in Hereford and Worcester , were all known to the Romans for their salt deposits , and several ancient routes across Britain are known as ‘ salt ways ’ because salt was carried on them in trains of packhorses to the far corners of the kingdom . |
| 10 | Led by the bank manager , the two women descended to a corridor and more antiseptically white walls that seemed to crowd in on them like banks of snow . |
| 11 | Again last week we talked about the feasibility of going to Australia for a week and the impact it would have on you after things like jetlag . |
| 12 | Eight days later the first Duke of Wellington was calling on her with reports of a coming clash : the king 's desired divorce from Queen Caroline . |
| 13 | He found the personal habits of the coolie recruiter deeply repugnant and this only increased the resentment he felt at his helpless dependence on him for replacements to his dwindling labor force . |
| 14 | Kirstein wanted to see the ballet in preparation before confirming the commission , so John began working on it with dancers of Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet , including Miller as the heroine . |
| 15 | A huge head it had on it with rows of teeth and this long sleek green body with all the fins sort of pushed down towards the tail to give it speed in the water I suppose . |
| 16 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 17 | For comparison , he asked the Head of Department to comment on it in terms of variety and amount . |
| 18 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 19 | The pirates jumped on it like cats upon a mouse . |
| 20 | The same may be true of the Prinias horsemen , but the relief there is rather low , and an alternative is that they turn their eyes on us as guardians of the house : the ‘ terror-mask ’ , a concept we shall meet again . |
| 21 | They were either bought in by Don Bennett himself , and there were very few of those that got through my fine mesh , or those who were somehow or other forced on us by agencies over which we had no control . |