Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [is] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paper in our lounge and in the hall , and tha where you put that piece to cover it up , it 's all black under there where it 's wearing on the corners of the wall where you go round and kno it looks black , so I 'm sure it 's black underneath and you just |
| 2 | If the comb is n't level , it may be because you did n't put it in symmetrically , or that the weights are n't positioned symmetrically , or it 's caught on the ribber , or you tied the end of the yarn to the clamp when you started . |
| 3 | Yes I am the outcome of it all is that she 's waiting on the wall , getting piles and I 'm going to go down the shop with her . |
| 4 | Although it is based on a mudane Chrysler Concorde saloon , the two-seater version looks like it has been driven straight off the set of ‘ American Graffiti ’ . |
| 5 | The house has disappeared there , although it is shown on an eighteenth-century map complete with avenues , ponds , and gardens , and today a fine eighteenth-century brick gateway , enclosed garden and levelled lawn remain . |
| 6 | Chrysler went to GM-owned Lotus to help develop its first multi-valve engine , although it 's based on an existing Chrysler four . |
| 7 | The badge is secret — and no-one should know that it 's hiding on the front until she gets the T-shirt or jumper on . |
| 8 | A lot like the pig above , except that it 's found on the grasslands and savannah woodlands of eastern and south-eastern Africa , is slightly bigger , is more bristly than hairy and is a muddy colour . |
| 9 | THE Independent has announced that it is calling on the Office of Fair Trading to investigate The Times for unfair competition . |
| 10 | In situations where you do n't feel OK you can use your Adult to prevent the feelings ‘ surfacing ’ in your overt behaviour and to control your behaviour so that it is conducted on an I 'm OK — You 're OK basis . |
| 11 | The particular value of task-centred work is that it is based on an intention to form an agreement or contract between the client and the worker , thus freeing the client from the burden of always being a grateful recipient . |
| 12 | As we have seen , Strawson 's analysis gains its plausibility from the fact that it is based on an appeal to our everyday view of ourselves , which is offered as an a priori reason for adopting an individualist approach . |
| 13 | It is not within the scope of this book to enter into a detailed explanation of the technique of the horn , but the fact should be firmly grasped that it is based on the possibility of producing by means of varying embouchure the upper partials of the harmonic series derived from a fundamental note , the pitch of which depends on the length of the tube . |
| 14 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is based on the Labour party 's ideological dislike of people who are not wholly dependent on the state ? |
| 15 | So important is it to wintering wildfowl , that it is included on the International List of Wetlands of the RAMSAR Convention and must be especially safeguarded against threats of reclamation for farmland and industry , and against over-shooting by wildfowlers . |
| 16 | The only problem I had with the book is that it is hinged on the premise that hardened psychopaths are capable of deep love — somehow that does n't ring true . |
| 17 | Maria learns from the men she drinks with in the cafe that he is hiding on the rooftops . |
| 18 | Unix Labs is appealing the judge 's decision , claiming that he is mistaken on a matter of law . |
| 19 | If he is to practise standing up , the plinth height may be raised , so that he is perched on the edge with his legs fairly straight : this reduces the support under his seat , but makes it easier for him to stand . |
| 20 | He feels so close to the nature of the place that he is photographed on the jacket of his book wearing a curious hat and holding the tusk of a wild pig . |
| 21 | What happens here is that if a white lady wants to go to the toilet and she 's working on a line , she does n't ask anyone 's permission , she just gets up — out she goes , powders her nose , has a cigarette , whatever they do — then comes back . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's this young girl in a Mao tunic and a red star on her cap — she 's Jean-Claude 's latest — and she 's sitting on a bookcase , high up , legs swinging . |
| 23 | I I have n't contacted only from what who er Granville said so I picked up the communion the straight away and then I could n't and she 's coming on the or that Sunday the first |
| 24 | The reason that the buyer selects a packet labelled , say , ‘ cocoa ’ from the shelf is that she wants cocoa and she is relying on the description ‘ cocoa ’ accurately to identify the packet and its contents . |
| 25 | Now her powerful , operatic voice appears on Soul II Soul 's ‘ A Dream 's A Dream ’ and she is working on a solo album , ‘ Glomozon ’ , to be released on the Soul II Soul label . |
| 26 | NOT only does the woman in the new Spennymoor town centre sculpture look like she 's sitting on the toilet , and the greyhound look like a ferret or a sausage , someone said but when they went to erect the blessed thing last week it did n't fit the space available . |
| 27 | I remember spending hours looking at the cover of Deep Purple 's ‘ Machine Head ’ , looking at the little photos and thinking , ‘ He 's playing a Strat and he 's standing on a Vox amp ; right , that must be the sound . ’ |
| 28 | And he 's banging on the engine cos it makes him sick |
| 29 | He never went in this mornin' , and he 's knocked on every door in Foley Street . |
| 30 | And when he marries he says he 's going to buy a house a car and he 's going on a holiday . |