Example sentences of "on [art] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rodney Marsh and Alan Parry commentate on the biggest thing in Boston since the Tea Party . |
| 32 | To be honest I ca n't remember , I know my lot on the last thing Wigan was doing two hundred and thirty an hour , so twelve times twenty , two hundred and thirty |
| 33 | HOG 's first aim , explains X/Open 's Martin Kirk , was to ensure that the various participants were not all working separately on the same things — but at the same time , that all the appropriate ground was being covered . |
| 34 | Which seems to me to impact on the same thing . |
| 35 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 36 | The success of get rich-quick schemes and some of the earlier pyramid ventures depend on the same thing . |
| 37 | The Portuguese , Greek and Italians are in on the same thing too . |
| 38 | You were on the same thing all day all day long . |
| 39 | This show was based on the same thing . |
| 40 | We 've had twenty minutes on the same thing ! |
| 41 | I saved on the knitted things by making all his little woollies myself and I was given six baby vests . |
| 42 | A conscious decision is needed to get government out of things the private sector does better and to concentrate government on the basic things that only governments can do . |
| 43 | They did a surprisingly brisk trade , although mostly on the little things , the ewers and basins , china dogs , trays of ancient photographs . |
| 44 | The Hoflin affair had n't worked out quite the way he 'd planned either , although he 'd spent a lot of time and money on the little thing . |
| 45 | ‘ He took us right back to basics , started us again on the simplest things . |
| 46 | When he had finished piling the boxes up , Charles looked once more round the room and his eyes lighted on the very thing he needed at that moment — a torch . |
| 47 | Now , from Trivers and actually it would be better on the , on the proper thing would n't it ? |
| 48 | That 'll make you No. 14 on the whole thing . |
| 49 | My position on the whole thing started to wobble last year when I had some reflexology ( a foot massage ) which made me more relaxed than I 've felt for years . |
| 50 | I 've I 've have been given notice that there is one proposed amendment which I intend to call now because then we can vote on the whole thing |
| 51 | Really , you 're giving them time and control and it 's up to you , it 's an alternative choice on the whole thing . |
| 52 | Now we also heard today that the oil prices are rising again , does it , does this have a bearing on the whole thing |
| 53 | We are also forcing the white people in the communities now to take a stand on the whole thing ; they 've always ignored us . |
| 54 | I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe . |
| 55 | Then a silence began to fall on every living thing around the Cages except for a Man running , not towards Woil but to the visitor caught by the hand in the talons of Creggan . |
| 56 | You need to find your own level with the person , and they certainly do n't need your comment on every single thing that they do . |
| 57 | " You ca n't expect me to agree with you on every single thing , Papa , " he said , keeping his voice low so that it did not carry to Senator Sherman and his sons , who were strung out in single file on their ponies behind them . |
| 58 | ‘ She did a piece to camera on every single thing she did . |
| 59 | Cos they 've got see I do n't know whether I do n't know whether it makes it Hemmings hey 've got nought percent disc er interest and all that sort of stuff on every single thing |
| 60 | he wanted to be the decision maker , and he wanted to make the decision on every single thing himself and then he was turning round and saying to his secretary , well ca n't you do anything ? |