Example sentences of "on [pron] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To suggest that there is an interested and informed big brother , on whom one side could lean , to give it some advantage over the other , is only to prolong the agony . |
| 2 | What would happen if I loved him more than he loved me , and if he were to cheat on me one day ? |
| 3 | I knew that some of his friends were into drugs , but I did n't know Ryan was until he collapsed on me one day . |
| 4 | She 'd call on them one day , he was confident of that . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | ‘ All right , ’ said Nigel , wobbling crazily on his one leg . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I want to improve the performance on my 1973 Range Rover by installing a US V8 . |
| 9 | ( Rule of Life No. 131 : If you ever really have to fight , pick on someone two weight divisions lower . |
| 10 | Although the market is growing by some 69% per annum now , Ovum says that 's already down 10% on its 1991 report 's prediction , and will fall to 27% per annum by 1997 . |
| 11 | VAUXHALL MOTORS today reported a 1992 pre-tax profit of £223.7m up 69pc on its 1991 figure . |
| 12 | The company believes this should pave the way for the deal to be signed and allow it to concentrate on its multi-billion dollar restructuring . |
| 13 | After four years of discussion , the European Commission 's Open Microsystems Initiative is reported to have finally set out on its five year mission to develop next generation microprocessor and software technology , which will utilise both new and existing architectures . |
| 14 | In December the Commission reported on its 1986 survey . |
| 15 | Gavarnie is a single-minded , ungainly village , bent on its one charge , of dispatching visitors , on foot , by donkey or on pony back along the track to the cirque , an hour away . |
| 16 | Danvers , Massachusetts-based PictureTel Corp is cutting prices on its M-8000 bridge product family : it says it will offer a fully H.320 version of its M-8000 Multipoint Bridge starting at $45,000 for the M-8600 with three ports : the M-8600 is for customers with only a few videoconferencing systems and limited requirements for linking a large number of sites on the same call ; the H.320 standards-compliant version will ship in the autumn . |
| 17 | Most tellingly , Labour 's vote was well down on its 1990 performance in the provinces . |
| 18 | Examples of the current price differences are : £136 charged by Ford for an Escort Mark III front panel , compared with £54 from an independent supplier — the true cost of making such a panel is closer to £10 ; Peugeot charges £136.50 for a bonnet on its 405 model , £85 from an independent ; A headlamp on a Granada Mark III can cost £106.50 from a Ford dealer , £67 from an independent . |
| 19 | If radio had depended on advertising revenue to operate on its 1940s scale , TV would have killed it . |
| 20 | NEC should be first out with compatible products this December , followed by Sony and Sanyo Electric in mid 1993 , Nihon Olivetti in the 3rd quarter of 1993 on its M-700 platform , and Silicon Graphics probably late in 1993 . |
| 21 | IT 'S disgraceful that jailed gangsters Reg and Ronnie Kray have been allowed to commission a kids ' computer game based on their Sixties reign of terror . |
| 22 | From behind bars , the notorious twins — already the subject of books and a film — have commissioned a firm to create a game based on their Sixties reign of terror in Bethnal Green . |
| 23 | For the moment , it was left to England to capitalise on their 2–0 lead in the resumed one-day series , with three matches to come in a fortnight . |
| 24 | The Londoners have won twice and drawn twice on their six League visits to Anfield , as well as having that Cup final to savour . |
| 25 | His workers stress they are aiming to win the battle of ideas in the campaign and a substantial increase on their 1987 tally of 1.5% . |
| 26 | While share prices are little changed on their 1987 peak , dividends have grown by 70 p.c . ’ |
| 27 | There are really three lochs rather than one , almost separate , but joined by narrows , and after a wild winter , when the snows begin to melt , these narrows become rivers in their own right , with ice-cold waters pounding through on their three-and-a-half mile journey to the sea . |
| 28 | Recorded in Vienna on their '89 tour of duty and mixing established Rollins-show standards from ‘ Hot Animal Machine ’ , ‘ Life Time ’ and ‘ Hard Volume ’ along with a handful of ( as yet ) unreleased items — the most spectacular being the towering desolation of ‘ Out There ’ — ‘ Turned On ’ is the closest possible documentation of the live Rollins experience short of having the man come and play in your front room . |
| 29 | Recorded in Vienna on their '89 tour of duty and mixing established Rollins-show standards from ‘ Hot Animal Machine ’ , ‘ Life Time ’ and ‘ Hard Volume ’ along with a handful of ( as yet ) unreleased items — the most spectacular being the towering desolation of ‘ Out There ’ — ‘ Turned On ’ is the closest possible documentation of the live Rollins experience short of having the man come and play in your front room . |
| 30 | If the sheer grit of Craig Pain 's men in wresting victory from Tongan grasps filled the Crown Colony cup with good cheer what was to come next sent if cascading over the brim as the Fijians opened the floodgates to drown the New Zealand assault on their sevens citadel . |