Example sentences of "to [pron] [noun] on the " in BNC.

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1 But this time it was hard word Mr Dakin responded to my sallies on the weather , cricket and the price of milk with a series of grunts .
2 I went over to my clothes on the empty bed .
3 Now for instance using that A P I , I could write a piece of C code , a piece of Three G L , which could access the database as if it was local to my machine on the client .
4 I confided my problem to my neighbour on the hide bench .
5 According to my neighbour on the other side , this apartment contained something very unusual in the way of leggy redheads .
6 Talking to my sister on the phone about the visit she insisted that the feeling of being absent in my mother 's presence was nothing to do with the illness , was the emotional underpinning of our childhood .
7 The Government recently announced the establishment of a further dozen environmentally sensitive areas , which included one close to my constituency on the south downs .
8 But by the Tuesday night my throat had all dried up and , though I tried to motor on , I had to take to my bed on the Wednesday .
9 I would go to my chamber on the same gallery as poor Cosmas and , of course , notice something was wrong .
10 ‘ Point this American out to my friend on the train .
11 So saying , I left them and went back to my work on the machine .
12 Dylan Thomas immortalised such machinery in Draper Mog Edwards ' soliloquy in Under Milk Wood : I have come to take you away to my emporium on the hill , where the change hums on wires .
13 We all wave goodbye to my father on the stoop as he is taken off in a little red car .
14 I knew there would be some details that might fill in a few gaps and , indeed , I had not known that Mme G had kept in touch with Otto and that , prior to my arrival on the scene , he frequently drove over to Reine with tempting delicacies that Jean-Claude invariably refused to eat .
15 ‘ I talk to my mother on the phone , ’ she remarked .
16 Because it was listening to my advice on the ‘ phone , of course !
17 I am grateful to these sponsors and to my colleagues on the project , Alison Kelly , Barbara Smail and John Catton .
18 When I think of the misery , the frustration and the anger caused to my constituents on the east Suffolk line , I despair .
19 In commenting to its members on the distinction between fixed and current financial assets , the Building Societies Association has undertaken to consider guidance on the criteria they should apply .
20 The government responded to its difficulties on the economic front with Mengistu 's announcement of limited liberalization measures in March , including steps towards the introduction of a mixed economy , with scope for private enterprise and a free market in agricultural trade , although the state would continue to own the land .
21 The Commission therefore referred to its observations on the residence requirements .
22 Eugenics owes its specific place in our history to its influence on the emergent pedagogy of sex education .
23 Having done that , it reaches one leg across to its equivalent on the other side , removes the accumulated pollen from the comb with a stiff brush that sprouts from the end of the leg and transfers it into a deep bowl lying on the outer surface of the opposite thigh .
24 Thus the Treasury faced little opposition to its policies on the basis that the sterling area was in any way harmful to the interests of the colonies .
25 Do two passes of the carriage to read the cams and then , when the carriage is at the opposite side to the point cam ( in this case on the right ) , move the left point cam back to its position on the right of the N1 cam .
26 During this process it was suggested that a dummy engine be installed to save time and weight , but this idea was rejected on the grounds that the idea was for the Norseman to be as live an aircraft as it could be , and for it to taxi from the hangar in which is was being restored , across Howey Bay , to its position on the shoreline , adjacent to where it would be mounted on the pole .
27 The law , however , has never allowed a corporation to sue in respect of injury to its feelings on the basis that the injury might be suffered by its agents : as Lord Reid said in Lewis v. Daily Telegraph Ltd. [ 1964 ] A.C. 234 , 262 : ‘ A company can not be injured in its feelings , ’ and he added , ‘ it can only be injured in its pocket ’ but pecuniary damage to a corporation 's reputation was not in issue in that case .
28 The Party conference would rise to its climax on the Friday afternoon when the Leader spoke .
29 The Russian submarine has returned to its base on the Kola peninsula .
30 The Severn Trent Water company , which supplies water to much of central England , has justified its recent unannounced addition of large amounts of chlorine to its water on the grounds that it was intended to counteract any possible terrorist action related to the Gulf conflict .
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