Example sentences of "to [pron] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Candidates for an overseas assignment should have had the opportunity to digest all information given to them on the new job , country , life style , compensation package and effects on their careers and families before being interviewed for the post . |
| 2 | A young woman sat with her back to me on the far side of the great fourposter bed . |
| 3 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 4 | I call the first row a zig-zag row as the yarn must zig-zag between the beds , that is , go from one needle on the main bed , to one on the ribber , to one on the main and so on . |
| 5 | Her excitement , as she sat next to him on the narrow dirty furry seat of the bus , was almost too much for her . |
| 6 | ‘ Aye ’ I said in a trance and found myself moving closer to him on the broad warm bench . |
| 7 | He followed their swift line as together they swung low over the water and landed , the splash of their coming rippling softly back to him on the still air . |
| 8 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 9 | It was of no consequence ; Garland knew every step of the way and Mitch trotted ahead , pursuing an erratic course as he nosed out the rich odours brought to him on the moist air . |
| 10 | He had already acquired some ex-episcopal lands back in 1647–8 , in settlement of earlier debts owing to him on the public faith . |
| 11 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 12 | I walked back into the lounge and said , ‘ You clever girl ’ to Sally and sat close to her on the wide sofa . |
| 13 | After a while he took off her cardigan and his jersey and then the rest of their clothes , and made love to her on the folk-weave bedspread of her university bed . |
| 14 | Sara stood by the open window and the scent of tobacco plant was wafted strongly to her on the warm evening air . |
| 15 | She asserted that she had been done out of her rights to the ownership of Mrs Ferrar 's London house , which had been promised to her on the old lady 's death . |
| 16 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 17 | Her mind slid over this problem and rejected it , her thoughts returning to memories of Johnny as he had been when he had attempted to make love to her on the previous night . |
| 18 | In relation to what on the corporate guidelines ? |
| 19 | It 's no good whispering them to yourself on the top deck of an otherwise empty bus , you 've got to shout them in school halls , fields , front rooms of houses , from your bedroom window … anywhere , really . |
| 20 | But he refused to compare the projected newspaper to anything on the present market , and insisted that only he could shape it . |
| 21 | Finally , at a sad time for Rosamund and myself , our sincerest thanks to so many rugby friends who have extended , through kind words and deeds , their sympathies to us on the tragic death , after a short illness , of our daughter Charlotte . |