Example sentences of "on [adj] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Having posted shining results for years , Compaq recently warned that its second-quarter sales will be 15% down on 1990 's figure , and that profits will tumble by close to 80% . |
| 32 | Aethelred 's parents had been married in 762 , so he will only have been about 11 when he became king on Alhred 's expulsion and those around him must have exercised real power . |
| 33 | Price on 007 's life |
| 34 | Price on 007 's life |
| 35 | This may have been a conscious effort on Æthelred 's part to divide Olaf from Swegen , with the intention that he should then conquer Norway ( as he did ) and be a thorn in Swegen 's flesh ( as he was , until Swegen defeated and killed him ) . |