Example sentences of "on [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Neither man liked the other , but they had strewn eggs in their own pathways towards each other and they walked on them all afternoon . |
| 32 | Al any mark or a white spot on them all tricks of the trade . |
| 33 | Tom , if you 're in charge of that , let's get these delegates on them front pages , we can do without the Tories . |
| 34 | She 'd call on them one day , he was confident of that . |
| 35 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 36 | In committing the count 's rights to written record , Henry 's clerks had conferred on them new authority . |
| 37 | They said their father contacted them suddenly for the first time two months ago after walking out on them 18 years ago . |
| 38 | This means that a surplus of 38 votes can only be transferred if there are 3,800 voting papers or fewer which have expressed on them subsequent preferences for continuing candidates . |
| 39 | They did not often visit us , for Dad called on them several times every week , being a good and generous brother . |
| 40 | And als , erm and on them three services is what we said a few moments ago , they got the choice of three different options . |
| 41 | The belly was covered in long piercing spikes , and I was going to fall on them any minute , and thousands of spikes would plunge into me — puncture me , penetrate my flesh — and out would pour my life 's blood , red and sticky , all down my body and down the elephant 's body and streakily into the waters of the pond . |
| 42 | " … last time I ever go anywhere on them British Railways . |
| 43 | It it 's sitting in those chairs I was yeah sitting on them , on them sloping chairs |
| 44 | Not on them little boxes . |
| 45 | Not on them little ones , no , you have to have special adaptors to make those little ones go everywhere . |
| 46 | Well er Fred and his wife went several times on them last year |
| 47 | We made up some ground on them last weekend and have to continue to do so . |
| 48 | But I ate myself silly on them last night and made myself feel sick so I 'll never eat them again now . |
| 49 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 50 | The result is of that is not fortunate that they 've been delayed but that in fact we have as much money to spend on them next year from the capital receipts as we will have spent this year , so in a sense we , we 're not going backwards there either . |
| 51 | Society puts pressure on them both ways . |
| 52 | ‘ All right , ’ said Nigel , wobbling crazily on his one leg . |
| 53 | In 1798 he exhibited No. 447 , ‘ Derwent Water from Castle Rigg ’ , and in 1801 , No. 649 , ‘ View from Kirby Lonsdale Churchyard Westmorland ’ , but this appears to be the last entry , probably because once he had moved to Ambleside he concentrated on his one man shows in the area . |
| 54 | You see , I was on my astrological cusp on Monday , it was n't at all propitious for me . |
| 55 | This time , as I stroked the downy hair on my tiny son 's head , I was the mother — a mother who had lost her child . |
| 56 | Briefly I held its glow through half shut eyes , felt its warmth concentrate on my upturned face . |
| 57 | I pile the CDs on top of the tapes which balance on my redundant vinyl collection that 's heaped on top of the ancient 78s I 've had for years . ’ |
| 58 | from time to time I am having to call on my rusty knowledge of French to make myself understood . |
| 59 | God knows what had possessed me to put my proper name on my real driving licence , but once it goes into the DVLC computer , it stays . |
| 60 | ‘ I continued to play for Clapton and Arsenal , and signed professional in 1930 — on my twentieth birthday . |