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 | I have sat around tables with senior male television executives and listened to them on the one hand bemoan the lack of good women presenters and on the other make suggestions of possible women candidates so inappropriate as to be laughable . |
| 3 | This being the case we can talk back to them on the same basis and presumably they will understand . |
| 4 | I think that Harold himself always had a feeling , despite the nine years between us , that my succession would not make enough difference between his regime and the next , and he mentioned this argument to me on the 17th . |
| 5 | A young woman sat with her back to me on the far side of the great fourposter bed . |
| 6 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 7 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 8 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |
| 9 | Finally , on Sunday morning Emerson woke up to find it raining — and Monza is not the track for rain , nor is rain a help to someone on the third row of the grid . |
| 10 | Could you please give some indication as to when you 're likely to respond to the letter sent to you on the twelve of the first nineteen ninety three ? |
| 11 | I have got in my diary that I 'm coming down to you on the twenty third of December ? |
| 12 | The three other prints will then be available to you on the same basis and each may be paid for in the same way . |
| 13 | She had reduced the voice to something on the same level of annoyance as a heavy breather . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Her excitement , as she sat next to him on the narrow dirty furry seat of the bus , was almost too much for her . |
| 16 | ‘ Aye ’ I said in a trance and found myself moving closer to him on the broad warm bench . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 21 | He had already acquired some ex-episcopal lands back in 1647–8 , in settlement of earlier debts owing to him on the public faith . |
| 22 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 23 | I walked back into the lounge and said , ‘ You clever girl ’ to Sally and sat close to her on the wide sofa . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Sara stood by the open window and the scent of tobacco plant was wafted strongly to her on the warm evening air . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He was perfectly amiable to her on the few occasions when they did meet ; sometimes she even felt that he liked her . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When he proposed to her on the last night I think she took him because , having been in her room for seven days , she 'd met nobody else and could n't bear to see her investment wasted . ’ |