Example sentences of "on [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually it began to dawn on me that while in the celluloid world all things were possible , in the other world it was quite a different story . |
| 2 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 3 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |
| 4 | You see , I was on my astrological cusp on Monday , it was n't at all propitious for me . |
| 5 | from time to time I am having to call on my rusty knowledge of French to make myself understood . |
| 6 | But I was congratulated on my general knowledge of nursing , and the Latin . |
| 7 | Roughs , based on my general knowledge of the subject , were presented at my first meeting with the ‘ team ’ and accepted in principle . |
| 8 | We met briefly once in the water on my ill-fated outing at Laniakea : he was planing down a wave , I was scuttling up it , looking for a way out . |
| 9 | On my second outing with the boots I was trying to assess how watertight they were as it was raining heavily . |
| 10 | On my second attempt at the wood I walked the path end to end to try to judge if my feelings that the place was of good age were wrong . |
| 11 | I made a bad mistake on my second lot of commercials — for Skol — by letting myself be persuaded by other people against my own instincts , so from then on I was very firm about what I wanted to do and what I was prepared to do , and it 's made my life easy . |
| 12 | I sucked on my hollow reed for a while , staring up at the sky . |
| 13 | After nights of fox predation on my small flock of sheep , I wonder if the anti-hunt protesters would like to hear the cries of my bereft ewes who have lost their lambs ? |
| 14 | On my final day at Berkeley , my fourth-form pupils presented me with some flowers and a small mounted copy of Claude Lorrain 's ‘ Hagar and the Angel ’ . |
| 15 | As soon as I had the diet ready for issue at the classes , Pat was first on my mental list of people who I hoped would particularly benefit . |
| 16 | As the train approached Edinburgh 's Caledonian Station I found I was as nervous as on my first journey to Bletchley . |
| 17 | I gave it one of its earliest tests on my first trip to Coombe Abbey at Coventry , where I had sixty pounds of bream ( weighed ) and only stopped catching when I ran out of groundbait . |
| 18 | On my first venture into the spanking new penthouse offices , clutching some very crap live reviews of some extremely crap bands , I encountered a bizarre race of pointy-headed mutants who had remained hidden from civilisation for countless generations . |
| 19 | It was the latter who inspired me on my first day at the tech . |
| 20 | The short brown gym tunic with its blue and gold woven girdle that I wore on my first day at Elmwood was a symbol of entry into a new world of lady-like refinement and academic elitism . |
| 21 | On my first day at the Istituto Tecnico Macedonio Melloni , which was about twenty minutes ' walk from where the tram stopped , all the new pupils were being greeted at the top of a large staircase by the headmaster , a rather forbidding figure who had a white beard and gold-rimmed spectacles , and was dressed in a black suit . |
| 22 | On my first day at the university I met my teacher , Professor Waldman , who was one of the greatest scientists in the world . |
| 23 | I met him on my first day at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1965 . |
| 24 | Certainly children who start their primary school life in the late 1980s will enter a far richer classroom than did the children I was responsible for on my first day of teaching . |
| 25 | On my first day of school my mum kept trying to wake me but I pretended I was asleep because I was so nervous , eventually mum knew that I was playing a trick . |
| 26 | A graphic example was given me when on my first day of lecturing in a college of education a student came up and earnestly asked me : " Do you believe the Bible — yes or no ? " |
| 27 | On my first day in Alaska I made a bee-line for the local radio station KFAR where I met the manager , Augie Hiebert and we spent the rest of the day talking shop . |
| 28 | ‘ On my first day in corporate finance I was translating for a Japanese MD who was hoping to buy a British company . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Bob was very helpful when he played under men and gave me a lot of helpful advice , especially after Middlesex had scored 120 for 0 against use before lunch on my first day in charge ! ’ |
| 30 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |