Example sentences of "on [pron] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , cos it only dawned on me cos the first of September |
| 2 | she said there 's a delay on them but the any that went , they 'll definitely be in tomorrow . |
| 3 | The council tax , too , will fall disproportionately on them because the 25 per cent . |
| 4 | Many towns in southern California are bewildered by the new duties the plan would impose on them and the new taxes that would be needed . |
| 5 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 6 | Exploiting Boniface 's injudicious move , Edward sought to rekindle popular support for his Scottish campaign by a debate in parliament on his and the papal claims , in the course of which he employed no little historical research to justify his own rights , to refute the pope 's , and to persuade the public of all this . |
| 7 | Spend two days in tour fatigues with this new , arena-compatible Nirvana production machine — ‘ I do n't know the names of most of the crew , ’ admits Dave — and it dawns on you that the overriding issue here is not that Kurt Cobain is on heroin ( or is n't , or was , or is and is trying to get off ) but that his wife is a Grade A pain in the arse . |
| 8 | Lifeboat crews in turn depend on you and the thousands of Governors and other supporters that you represent to speed them on their way with the resources you provide so unstintingly . |
| 9 | The might before in the hotel lounge , with his wife , Lonnie , beside him , bemusedly aghast , he grilled a pleasant waitress until he knew how many tips she got each week , how many children she had , the frequency of men hitting on her and the general contour of her reality . |
| 10 | ‘ He likes all women , ’ Kylie giggled as she recalled his masculine effect on her and the other girls in the show . |
| 11 | Because she was so tall and slim all the clothes looked marvellous on her and the other girls would groan their envy . |
| 12 | They really did pick on her and the only reason was that she would n't stick up for herself . |
| 13 | It would be convenient to report that Ross Cranston 's performance was as immaculate as his appearance or that it is on him that the smart money will be laid . |
| 14 | In general , however , the contract of a mentally disordered person is fully binding on him unless the other party was aware that he was so insane as not to understand the nature of the transaction . |
| 15 | But now British Rail has reversed its decision on him and the two others at a freight depot in Doncaster . |
| 16 | Villepreux , however , has a long-term contract with Italian club Benetton Treviso and he is unlikely renege on it unless the French Federation is prepared to match the terms of the deal . |
| 17 | There 's a bar on it until the eighteenth of September is n't there ? |
| 18 | It was a red Transit , one of the new designs which look like they 've been punched in the nose , but there were no markings on it and the rear windows had been painted out . |
| 19 | When one thinks , however , that coming up the Sacred Way one 's first sight of the building would be the corner , the long Gigantomachy stretching in front of one , the combat of the east abutting on it and the seated gods closing the composition at the end , one understands that it is so designed to suit its position ; as the formal archaic structure of the west frieze suits the highly decorated frontally approached entrance-façade . |
| 20 | She wore a babyish frock with little pink flowers embroidered on it and the gentle charm which she used on people who might be frightened of her . |
| 21 | You bang down on it and the darn thing is n't there . |
| 22 | In th , over here , it only cost forty fa , forty five pound and you can play one or two players on it and the pro score is eighty eight per cent . |
| 23 | The greater the volume of business on a particular exchange , the greater the ability to trade freely on it and the more business it should attract . |
| 24 | The early feminists make more of an impression on us than the overwhelming mass of their contemporary sisters who took it for granted that their place in society would be one of legal and social inequality to men . |