Example sentences of "on [prep] the [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Mr Atkins former job is as Minister in Northern Ireland so he 's unlikely to know a lot about what was going on in the in the Commons at the end of last session which is a bit unfortunate . |
| 2 | Er but in in terms of the proposals they actually make erm we find them somewhat contradictory in that erm it says earlier on in the in the committees report that erm accrued rights must be protected erm , it does n't say accrued rights which have to be lost through misappropriation of assets must be protected . |
| 3 | What we 're saying on the whole is that we , we are moving south erm militarily we , we now control most of north China , we begin to move on to the into areas of very high tenancy where landlordism was thought to be at its extreme but all we 're doing is reducing rents and interest rents . |
| 4 | The then of course when the wartime came along , the last war , I did n't , I did n't used to rush away , I , I had that sense to not just , to rush on to the with the rest of them , so I joined the fire brigade , the regular fire brigade . |
| 5 | Could metal ions be made to stick on to the outside of the fullerene football ? |
| 6 | When the nest-cup is well formed the bird fetches lichen and weaves this on to the outside of the nest . |
| 7 | holding on to the outside of the jamb . |
| 8 | There 's er a collar and a what they call a which is a protein tube and then it has various spikes at the end that make it stick on to the outside of the bacteria . |
| 9 | We had driven back to the village and had just turned off the road on to the In Salah track . |
| 10 | The inhabitants inside certainly know everything that goes on on the outside of their windowpanes , however . |