Example sentences of "on [pron] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 2 | I 've got half a dozen billeted on me at the moment . |
| 3 | One man has died and another was seriously injured when a fifteen tonne machine fell on them at a factory in Gloucestershire . |
| 4 | The following proposed amendments to the Constitution are for your careful consideration so that you can comment and vote on them at the A.G.M. on Friday , 19th March 1982 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll tell you quite frankly , I would n't know where to put my hands on them at the moment . |
| 6 | Ministers have taken the decision despite warnings from some civil servants that their failure to fund research into nuclear safety could backfire on them at the Sizewell public inquiry now under way in Suffolk . |
| 7 | ’ One has to balance these things carefully : they 're capable of erupting if churches are inflicted on them at the rate of more than , say , one every other day . |
| 8 | Though Japanese prints , which he collected avidly , helped distil their decorative beauty , their strict linearity is at times offset by whip-lash curves , as the line of the trees doubles back on itself at a bend in the river . |
| 9 | Electrical engineers will be reminded of the torque versus speed curve of an induction motor which exhibits an unstable and unmeasurable set of values as the curve turns back on itself at the pull-out torque . |
| 10 | I only work on one at a time because I find it quite niggling if something is n't finished . |
| 11 | Similarly , as the hand wanders in a doodle , the mind is free to concentrate on something at the back of it : in this case , the ideas just put before the children . |
| 12 | The old man nodded briefly , chewing on something at the side of his mouth . |
| 13 | ‘ Is this how princes use their power and privilege ? ’ she raged , and his hands loosened their grip on her at the fury in her face . |
| 14 | A black depression descended on her at the thought . |
| 15 | In other words , according to this view , Germany along with all the other nations stumbled into war in nineteen fourteen , was then declared , simply because she was the defeated party , declared to be the guilty party , erm had punitive terms imposed on her at the Treaty of Versailles , and as a result of this moved towards extremism in internal politics , with the erm consequence that the Democratic Republic of Weimar collapsed , erm Hitler came to power , and Hitler was some kind of evil person , a Satanic messenger from Hell , who first of all visited his atrocities on , on the Germans before doing the same to Europe as a whole . |
| 16 | Mr Butner — who developed a friendly , working relationship with Diana — eventually called on her at the palace . |
| 17 | the stimulator on her at the moment . |
| 18 | A man died when a wall collapsed on him at a farm in Gloucestershire . |
| 19 | To begin with , after the attack on him at the Lambeth Baths hall , his view of himself changed in a literal sense . |
| 20 | Coroner Ronald O'Doherty said the boy had died five hours after the insecure steel goal-posts fell on him at the Derry City Council ground . |
| 21 | A SCHOOLBOY was killed when a wall collapsed on him at the weekend . |
| 22 | At the ship 's office I was informed that Sir George Clerk , the British Ambassador , had sent a message that as soon as I landed I was to call on him at the Embassy . |
| 23 | Michael Pumfrey had spent part of his childhood in Cullbridge , though the existence of Burleigh School had made no particular impression on him at the time . |
| 24 | Jessica 's interest is Rory Collins , we 're working on him at the moment . |
| 25 | The letter is brief and unsigned , saying only that my lord wishes me to call on him at the Garden Tower at my earliest convenience . |
| 26 | Saver Plus — the ideal combination if you are looking to make the most of your surplus cash but may need to call on it at a moment 's notice . |
| 27 | Yet her work touched on it at every point ; and without such experience , without the knowledge of such suffering — if suffering it was — what authority did she possess to speak a word of meaning in the world ? |
| 28 | And I tried to get on it at the beginning of the week but he told me it was fully booked . |
| 29 | In Carthage an inveterate schism ( Donatism ) originated when a devout and wealthy lady who treasured the relic of a martyr was rebuked for lavishing kisses on it at the commemoration of the faithful departed at the eucharist ; ‘ she went off in a huff |
| 30 | Poindexter discoursed on it at the hearings , tamping his pipe , with the aid of the sort of brightly-coloured maps usually found in school atlases . |