Example sentences of "on the [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out on the ridge that night he decided there was nothing for it . |
| 2 | Yes , we go up on the Ridge most of the time because er we 've all got mountain bikes ; it makes it a bit more fun . |
| 3 | They were now on their way to join 1st Commando Brigade on the ridge this side of the River Orne , on our left nearest to the coast and probably next to No. 3 Commando . |
| 4 | Sally-Anne had known nothing of this — only that standing with him on the ferry that day was sheer enchantment . |
| 5 | Aye but they 're they 're starting off on the South that 's what you 've got to think . |
| 6 | Erm we 're trying to have beer put on the price each time now to make it worthwhile so you get a chance of getting your money back . |
| 7 | ‘ I decided I was fed up with having to go out on the road all the time in order to pay a mortgage on a house I never spent any time in ! ’ he told me . |
| 8 | You know , it probably sounds weird , but after you 've been on the road all that time , you kind of forget whether you 're any good or not . |
| 9 | Only a few hundred were killed on the road each year ( about 4 per cent mortality ) , which , as the Table shows , is insignificant compared with the overall annual mortality rate of 50–60 per cent . |
| 10 | All that shelling last night , the activity on the road this morning , things seem to be moving . ’ |
| 11 | If he had set out to prove that the passionate interlude on the road this morning had been genuine on his part he had certainly succeeded . |
| 12 | They are converting the caravan into a mobile darkroom and hope it will be on the road this Easter . |
| 13 | The free weekly magazines sent to doctors financed by drug advertisements joined in with a vengeance on the lines that ‘ Fowler 's drug list ends prescribing freedom ’ . |
| 14 | It holds a pool of the securities of each listed company and on dealings on The Exchange each seller transfers to SEPON , thus momentarily augmenting its pool and out of it SEPON transfers the appropriate amount of shares to each purchaser . |
| 15 | We 'll work a little bit on the maths and a little bit on the English each time . |
| 16 | Unofficial strike action followed and the union 's own bankers were granted an injunction prohibiting the NUS from transferring any of their property abroad , on the principle that third parties must ensure that they gave no aid to any action which might occur if the union 's property were sequestrated as a result of some future contempt of court . |
| 17 | Though the basic broad principles of the hierarchy are observable from its inception , probably toward the end of the fifteenth century , it was only gradually that it became elaborated ; and it was only with elaboration that the hierarchy tended gradually to become more rigid and to exert an increasing influence on the attitudes both of the ulema toward their own aspirations and of the people toward the ulema . |
| 18 | What one believes to have been the effects of the growth and elaboration of the hierarchy on the attitudes both of scholars towards their own role and of others towards scholars has been discussed at the beginning of the chapter , but one may , perhaps , in conclusion , briefly reinforce the point by quoting a remark attributed to the Grand Vezir Karamani Mehmed Pas a concerning Hocazade . |
| 19 | The one where you are forced to have a group photo of the three acts you have separately promised to put on the cover that week |
| 20 | On the cover this week is Jimbo Kerr , lead singer with rising starts Simple Minds , whom we declare to be ‘ serious dance music ’ . |
| 21 | On the cover this week is Jimbo Kerr , lead singer with rising starts Simple Minds , whom we declare to be ‘ serious dance music ’ . |
| 22 | The team secretary , Paul Williams , said : ‘ We have had phenomenal numbers on the hills this winter and obviously the number up there is related to the number of accidents . ’ |
| 23 | On the Green that night I was ready to say I had backed a loser , and to be graceful in defeat , a gentleman to the end . |
| 24 | There were never enough to go around , especially on the house where I was , where there were two other girls on the works and four girls on the gardens all coming in filthy dirty and wanting a bath . |
| 25 | It 's the second mix on the B-side most spinners are plumping for , riding into tranceland on a deep repetitive bassline and helped along by fountains of floaty keyboards that wash you away into hypno-city . |
| 26 | Unfortunately both Marx and Engels , in their enthusiasm for this confirmation of their theory , also took over from Morgan 's work on the gens several totally unsupportable assumptions which are in fact quite unnecessary for what they were trying to argue . |
| 27 | When all the guttering is in place you can start on the downpipes These are generally fixed from the ground working upwards , but you must make sure that you are working to the right line if ( as is common ) the guttering is offset from the wall . |
| 28 | If you can manage it , you can keep on the go all day , hitting winners on the tennis court or flying the British flat at water polo ( let's hope we do better this year ? ) , or competing in the Irene Palace swimming Olympics . |
| 29 | I 've been on the go all day . |
| 30 | On the board this morning we 're going to have a bash at thinking about some targets , we 're going to have a bash think about , how you think you 've done so far ? |