Example sentences of "of [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After a day he will know the names of everyone on the set and he goes to great lengths to make sure we all enjoy ourselves , organising lunches and so on . |
| 2 | That scream went like a knife into the heart of everyone on the train . |
| 3 | At one point in 1987 I was bowling up the M6 talking to a colleague in London on my ‘ hands-off ’ Cellnet phone — it had a microphone in front of me on the visor . |
| 4 | Her name is Elisa Stasi and that 's the last bit of information you 're getting out of me on the subject . |
| 5 | P. E. A man dropped dead in front of me on the street and I took him to the mortuary and I got into trouble over it because I did n't search the body properly . |
| 6 | So I rang United Airlines head office , at my own expense , and spoke to a woman who could find no record of me on the UA computer . |
| 7 | I pointed out that it had already been a month , and there was no record of me on the Chicago computer . |
| 8 | She walked ahead of me on the narrow path ; she had slender legs and pretty ankles . |
| 9 | I 'm happy to cruise along in traffic on the road but when there is someone in front of me on the track , I become quite mad . |
| 10 | I kicked pebbles ahead of me on the path up from my caravan to my mother 's hotel and , with each ‘ thwok ’ , my terrible adolescent idealism was refuted . |
| 11 | I say ‘ Yes ’ a lot and show them some photos of me on the Etive . |
| 12 | In the family album are some photographs of me on the lawn with Susannah , my Indian ayah , to whom I was devoted . |
| 13 | Our favourite photo was taken of me on the marble slab . |
| 14 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 15 | If one of those things does n't t ally with the record of me on the machine , then the doors will lock — including the doors to the elevators — and alarms will sound in about twenty places on the compound as well as in New York . ’ |
| 16 | One can easily produce evidence at the present day of great local abundance ( e.g. of starfish or pilchards ) , but I know of nothing on a modern sea-floor to compare with the abundance plus wide distribution of the examples just mentioned . |
| 17 | Another reason for our inability to give accurate figures is due to the prevalence of several other types of population movement , some of them on a huge scale , although extended over a longer period . |
| 18 | You could admire them from a safe distance , but you would n't want to run into one of them on a dark night at the crossroads . |
| 19 | Union Discount alleged breach of a duty of care in tort and claimed in respect of the dishonour of four bills of exchange drawn by Berg , three of them on a company called Esal Commodities Ltd . |
| 20 | If you are lucky enough to own any old sepia family photographs , it can look extremely attractive to arrange a collection of them on a wall , as you can then give them all co-ordinating mounts that are decorated with your favourite pressed flowers , or perhaps choose some flowers that are appropriate to the family . |
| 21 | There were platoons of them on a sort of scrounging patrol , begging food from gardeners or shoppers . |
| 22 | State surveys other than the Census The state conducts several other surveys at regular intervals , all of them on a sample basis . |
| 23 | The equipment in all the workshops was rudimentary , but items of reasonable quality were produced and sold , some of them on a stall outside the front gate of the prison . |
| 24 | Of importance here is the fact that 14 interviewees ( 23 per cent ) were regular users of another opioid , principally Diconal , eight of them on a daily basis . |
| 25 | Carrie saw a big bowl of them on a table and then their reflection — and hers — in what seemed hundreds of mirrors . |
| 26 | In this case , a more precise purpose might be , " I want to find out the relative sizes of the most common dinosaurs so I can draw scale pictures of them on a wall chart . " |
| 27 | In the United Kingdom in 1988 , there were 1298 publicly maintained nursery schools catering for some 98,000 children , 82% of them on a part-time basis . |
| 28 | I spent almost all of them on a visit to a barber and on a meal , after which I felt my humanity returning . |
| 29 | There were more double doors at the end and in front of them on a tubular chair sat a uniformed constable reading the Sunday Express . |
| 30 | As a result , proposals have already been laid before the ICI Main Board for exploiting two of them on a world scale — acrylics [ as mentioned above ] , and terephthalic acid , part of the petrochemicals business . |