Example sentences of "a [noun] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe fate had to give you a shove on to the right path . ’ |
| 2 | And I take it erm the commission structure is just the same if I am continuing a contract on for the following year . |
| 3 | Delaney swung a foot on to the ladder . |
| 4 | With a bit of practice , you can learn to put a condom on without the punter knowing you 've done it ! |
| 5 | The baker and the newsagent were open and there was a light on in the Carabinieri station that stood between them . |
| 6 | He was driving past , saw a light on in the shop and demanded to know what was going on . ’ |
| 7 | There was a light on in the house on stilts ; he could see a faint glow through the curtains of the window on the left of the door . |
| 8 | There was a light on in the hall , and apparently on the second floor , though that might be a landing . |
| 9 | In one house , on the corner , there was a light on in the front bedroom . |
| 10 | Outside , another fierce white explosion of water burst over the side , carried by the screaming banshee of a wind on to the armoured glass plate of the bridge . |
| 11 | Oh , you can buy a cheap ones with a just a tape on without the |
| 12 | Reaching to steady the ashtray , I spilt the coffee , and also hooked my elbow in the telephone 's lone dreadlock — so that when , with a final heroic convulsion , I burst out of the bed , the swinging casket somehow smashed into my shin and then dropped like a bomb on to the bare mound of my foot Twenty minutes later , by which time the pain had done its worst , I unpeeled my way through the sodden address book . |
| 13 | personally an and from er and the rest and he , he 's gone to this area and he 's looked and he , he 's seen and he may have interpreted this , or wanted to interpret it so that when his report went back that the , he was saying that we must get a move on to the people in the Party saying that we need to get involved now , we need to be in all these areas , we need to be helping things develop and , and being a part at the front . |
| 14 | I HAVE been hearing of a move on at the moment which , if it spreads , could see us all getting our pay in pints . |
| 15 | It has been nigh on a full month since we first made a landfall on to the north shore : since we rode in the longboat on the crest of the shining surf and I set my foot withal on this fair land in the name of the King . |
| 16 | There 's a crisis on at the studio . |
| 17 | As I told you , there 's a crisis on at the studio . |
| 18 | BIG Ron Atkinson took a microphone on to the Villa Park pitch to promise fans that he and chairman Doug Ellis would pull together next week to sign Dean Saunders from Liverpool . |
| 19 | In very light cross winds there is always the possibility of dropping a wing on to the ground and swinging badly . |
| 20 | If the posts are only intended to curve the back , this can be better achieved by planing a curve on to the struts before they are glued to the back . |
| 21 | Permission has been requested by the Darlington council recreation committee to build a platform on to the railway museum at Hopetown Lane . |
| 22 | Permission has been requested by Darlington Council 's recreation committee to build a platform on to the railway museum at Hopetown Lane as part of general improvements . |
| 23 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 24 | I 've had a radiator on in the hallway . |
| 25 | I 've had a radiator on in the front room . |
| 26 | As soon as she was safe her rescuer ‘ took off like a streak on down the channel ’ . |
| 27 | He bent and threw a log on to the fire . |
| 28 | Five went to their usual dealer to buy cannabis or speed and , as there was a drought on at the time , were offered and accepted heroin instead . |
| 29 | Although the flats are very compact , generally following the standards laid down for this type of housing in DoE Design Bulletin 29 , they share the facilities of a jetty on to the river , and a roof-top conservatory and roof garden , all of which were made possible by a £200,000 grant from the Historic Buildings Council . |
| 30 | We do n't need a coat on in the car do we ? |