Example sentences of "on [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A male 's vigour in display may also indicate to the female a mate with whose genes hers can mix with a high chance of being passed on through future generations . |
| 2 | In fact there is little natural water hereabouts ; what there is usually disappears down cracks and fissures , tumbling down sunless waterfalls and on through subterranean channels to reappear some distance lower down in the valleys . |
| 3 | ‘ And Maggie 's always on about Victorian values , ’ I persisted , ‘ the sanctity of the family group — ‘ |
| 4 | On about all blacks . |
| 5 | Tied in questions , they , they usually ask , you know I went on to you on , on about tied ins , right , did n't you , has n't it , would n't you , right , would n't you prefer , would n't you rather , right , if you could would n't you . |
| 6 | He went on about various things but I only half heard him . |
| 7 | Chainsaw guitars , bonecrusher drums , some bloke yammering on about serial killers … a sound that could only come from one place . |
| 8 | Horses wo n't be airsick all over your lap ; they do n't drone on about overbooked hotels , or insist on playing Scrabble to pass the time . |
| 9 | So when she was going on about Nigerian boys , I said , " So what , if I went out with this guy , you 'd be lucky if he stayed with me . " |
| 10 | This is n't a political or geographical question , and I 'm not going to ramble on about environmental issues . |
| 11 | She was allowed to talk about herself if he was allowed to rave on about black men . |
| 12 | He 's going on about damn baths at the moment . |
| 13 | ‘ Willy rambled on about Norman archways and perpendicular naves , as if glad to have some arcane topic to take his mind off the inquest . |
| 14 | but erm he was on about certain aspects that he picked up from her , but having been in gypsy caravans round here , as when they were on Line Brook you see we were always at Line Brook for one reason or another |
| 15 | I gave him a lecture about how the car was too heavy , going on about power-to-weight ratios . |
| 16 | Reading of the treatment by Durham County Council of the old people 's homes that are being closed , I say it is an absolute disgrace and this by the people who keep on about caring councils . |
| 17 | I found it incredibly erotic , and the more Dennis maundered on about boiled sweets on the nose , the more erotic it became . |
| 18 | , I do n't think you 've got anything to worry about , have you seen that advert for Babycham no erm the advert with Babycham , erm , er running on about true romantics and he goes through all the differences his and this woman marrying this guy and she must be and she must be fifty five , and he 's about twenty three , twenty four and Rob turns round the other day and said , she 's got |
| 19 | So er I hope what this er series of interviews will er serve to prove , is both the quality of thinking that 's going on about public services , and our very strong commitment to the customers and citizens we serve . |
| 20 | Lucky to have parents who did n't throw up their hands in horror and carry on about unmarried mothers , being too young to know our own minds , etc . |
| 21 | But I was in a foul temper , and Rebecca had n't made it any easier by going on about missing papers , and how urgent it was that we had them back . ’ |
| 22 | I mean , what would you do if you were a lawyer and a boy came in and started yapping on about missing Wills like in some kid 's story ? |
| 23 | I heard from Bridget there 's some kind of row going on about masculine endings . |
| 24 | erm I 'm on about big tins . |
| 25 | LISTENING to Barenboim talk on about abstract matters like ‘ the sonic neutrality of the piano ’ , I began to understand why he had such a formidable reputation . |
| 26 | I 'm not on about houses I 'm on about main buildings like St Paul 's an' all that |
| 27 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 28 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , do n't go on about those women — they were n't a patch on you , you know . |
| 30 | If you care , then watch some people on WITHOUT WALLS go on about these topics at great and possibly mind-numbing length . |