Example sentences of "on the [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Jack filled him in on the scanty information they had already obtained . |
2 | Jonathan put on the deepest voice he could manage . |
3 | If the lurcher catches a rabbit on the feeding grounds it will almost invariably scream — and this is the best thing to happen . |
4 | * To comment on the recent debate I think you do a great job and I like the new look . |
5 | During my spell on the late desk I went out on no fewer than eleven murders . |
6 | It also calls on the government to act on the relevant commitments it made at the UNCED summit [ see ED 59/60 ] , and on the major supermarket chains to provide information on the biodiversity of the foods they stock . |
7 | On the 25th March we held the London Branch Annual Dinner at La Cucuracha Mexican Restaurant . |
8 | On the narrow bridge he stood in front of her again , blocking her way , looking back past her at the House . |
9 | Sergeant Bird 's gaze strayed idly upwards to the strip of Vapona hanging from a kitchen cupboard , then slowly retraced its path to fix on the anxious woman he was interviewing . |
10 | cos have cheese on the you know er , on the cool counter you know that 's how they sell it |
11 | But after 27 days he has travelled 270 miles and on the 28th day he travels the remaining 30 miles and reaches land before he goes to sleep . |
12 | Back in his own office , he found Cashman talking on the cellular phone he carried wherever he went . |
13 | On the appointed day I presented myself at the villa . |
14 | When we heard of the decision to construct a new reservoir on the Durham/Northumberland border , Ann and I carefully noted opening day in our diary ; and on the appointed morning we rose at dawn and sallied forth , bustling by ash-covered Consett Iron Works , the light of battle glinting in our trout-starved eyes . |
15 | From then on they met separately in wine bars , reporting back intermittently on the drunken evenings they had had . |
16 | On the medium-side-of-sweet palate you 'll find hints of lime , quince and plum . |
17 | And then with shoulders bunched and my eyes on the messed pavement I shuffle off down the drinker , and sit with tankard and tabloid in the comer by the fire . |
18 | Our conversation moved cautiously round the subject of corruption in public life , and I quoted Burke , whose Thoughts on the Present Discontents I had been studying , to the effect that wisdom consisted in part in deciding how much evil to tolerate . |
19 | On the present occasion he was convicted of attempting to rape and then murdering an 81-year-old widow . |
20 | However , it has been suggested that on the present basis it would take 46 years to clear the backlog in housing disrepair … |
21 | As the enclosure movement gained impetus towards the end of the eighteenth century , many of the poor could not afford the fences necessary to confirm their claim to the land , and therefore sold it to the wealthy ; those who could were often unable to raise a living on the poor land they acquired , and sold it too ; those who were squatters had no right to land at all and none to sell . |
22 | These occasions bore no fruit , however , and the effectiveness of his power really depended more on the skilled team he had behind him — with Sir Henry Self coordinating their relations with Whitehall from his own intimate knowledge as an ex-mandarin — and on the strength of the pressure of argument which they maintained . |
23 | Mum 's anger and frustration was based , not entirely on the fact of the girl being a Gentile , but on the great expectations she had anticipated for the boy . |
24 | The botanical gardens are bare and there are few signs of the famous flower festival exhibitions in the cold grey wet transition between winter and spring : on the four days I was there it rained every day , finally removing the last traces of soot-encrusted snow from the pavements but leaving everything streaked with a post-winter dampness . |
25 | Isabel sat up and concentrated on the small casket he placed beside her . |
26 | Amabel , for the first time in her life , had felt in less than perfect harmony with her John-William when he had declared that Linnet , on the small dowry he was prepared to give her , was aiming too high . |
27 | Manville nearly choked on the small cheroot he was in the process of lighting up . |
28 | His hands rested on the small daysack he carried on his chest . |
29 | It was n't , it was n't on the regional news it was peculiar ! |
30 | Yes , he 's always jumping on me to tell me to do more for local radio and get South East Arts and South East Arts clients more regularly in contact with local radio , and I must admit on the latter case I do think that many of our clients do spend a great deal of time and erm want to be active with local radio . |