Example sentences of "on a [noun] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made Dinah go and unlace herself , put on a cotton wrapper she had lately bought , and stay near her bed till the pains came , but meantime to walk up and down . |
| 2 | Sometimes on a winter afternoon it would start coming in and get so black you could n't see . |
| 3 | I had one repaired for Susannah , it had been left to her by an aunt and she had managed to smash it against a post or something and broke the shank and knocked out one of the erm , stones , so on and so forth , and eh , together with some repairs on a charm bracelet I had to pay thirty seven pounds for the whole jolly lot . |
| 4 | I want to end by saying that we need now to f go over this hurdle of liberation make sure that the vast majority of black South Africans who are deeply angry and I saw this anger because I was in South Africa when Chris was assassinated and this anger was turning into rage and the country was on a knife edge it could have blown up , the country would have burned had it not been for the diplomatic achievement of , of enormous stature by Nelson Mandela when he addressed the whole nation and in a sense seized power informally from white and black and the country managed to survive that but if that anger turns into rage again then the country could burn and I do n't say this to be dramatic but just to warn that in those moments when the media and so on do n't explain the situation well do n't forget our people because they have had to cope with this situation . |
| 5 | For failing to report you 'll be fined twenty pounds and your licence will be endorsed and for failing afford precedence on the pedestrian on a zebra crossing you 'll be fined ten pounds . |
| 6 | At an IOWME ( International Organisation of Women and Mathematics Education ) discussion group in 1986 ( see Isaacson , Rogers and Dekker , 1986 ) , Gila Hanna reported on a gender analysis she and Erika Kuendiger had carried out on data from the Second International Mathematics Study ( SIMS ) . |
| 7 | If , for instance , the animal became imprinted on a tennis ball it might subsequently attempt to mate with other tennis balls ! |
| 8 | Three months after the executions , he wrote his vignette , probably basing it on a newspaper account he read in the Paris edition of the New York Tribune ( Baker 1969 : 108 ; Reynolds 1972 : 82 ) . |
| 9 | On a test piece you can work out a lace pattern in blocks or strips — this is especially simple with the push button method of needle selection — then fit a crossover into the plain stocking stitch sections . |
| 10 | While I munched on a choccie biccie I noticed loads of free stickers lying around — each design had a different concept . |
| 11 | They use so much petrol on a taxi business they got she 's got about a dozen still I think . |
| 12 | So it 's surprising that when we 're staying in a guest house on a walking holiday we 're content just to order ‘ a packed lunch ’ , and hope for the best . |
| 13 | There was a bar on the premises , and on a YCs night it would be filled with the laughter and gossip of young drinkers , some below the legal age of drinking . |
| 14 | Now on a North Yorkshire I ca n't remember which paper it is . |
| 15 | ‘ On a cost basis we are approaching one third of the cost to the competition . |
| 16 | On a London bus she had heard a driver announce Stoke-Jewington when driving through Islington . |
| 17 | On a school outing he , and some other pupils , were involved in shoplifting . |
| 18 | Unlike on a school day I would have the chance of getting up at my leisure , for I would begin at ten o'clock . |
| 19 | Because medical practitioners are either salaried or paid on a capitation basis they have no financial incentive to " overtreat " , and the competitive bidding-up of salaries has not been possible when pay and salary structures are nationally negotiated ( though this may change in future ) . |
| 20 | if you think you 're going on a cruise liner it 's obviously gon na be , you know , fairly well off people . |
| 21 | Now that we do it all on a computer screen we need to define the pieces before we can start . |
| 22 | ‘ After I saw him on a TV programme I phoned him . |
| 23 | Sitting on a stone wall she listened to tourists who sprawled on grass where they were asked not to encroach . |
| 24 | let me ask you something else on a development Mr I when I watched use the er help from time to time there are major items of expenditure , after the properties built , correct |
| 25 | Like if I worked at home on Saturday night , and I worked at home on a Sunday lunch-time it would be really , really busy all the time , and like there 's four areas to cover in and there 's only two areas and I think its too |
| 26 | good hour , let's all sit round listening to bloody band on a Sunday night it 's only to , Lancaster to go in bar for twenty five pound , there were five |
| 27 | On a Sunday night you used to show different films from the rest of the week . |
| 28 | ‘ If you 're not in by half past seven on a Sunday night you 've no chance of getting a seat , ’ a regular member told me . |
| 29 | ‘ On a Sunday afternoon we all go to practise in Henknowle community centre at Bishop Auckland . ’ |
| 30 | As it was er quite late on a Sunday evening I did in fact take the opportunity to listen at the door of the flat in question . |