Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on [pron] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when people are stamping on his head he still carries that inane smile . |
| 2 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 3 | If they have been so informed , I would be very grateful if I could be told on what date they were told . |
| 4 | The taxing master must , of course , be told on what basis he is to conduct the taxation . |
| 5 | It can , of course , be based on whatever criteria you want . |
| 6 | The Warwickshire jurors , on being asked on what authority they had returned that ten townships ‘ with their woods , wastes and fields ’ had been afforested by King John , and that in 1154 there had been no royal forest in their county , replied that they knew by what their ancestors had related and by the common talk of the country . |
| 7 | After the failure to initial the Treaty , he admitted that " pressure is being put on my colleagues which raise doubts about the usefulness of preserving the state " . |
| 8 | She had to comply and soon afterwards he was crowned : as the crown was placed on his head his retainers , to a man , drew their swords with a rasp of steel and brandished them in the air . |
| 9 | Erm right er Tom was going on his holidays our Union bloke about a fortnight nor three weeks something like that after the strike situation . |
| 10 | I think she well and the house was certainly getting on her nerves but whether it was because she was ill it was getting on her nerves I do n't know . |
| 11 | but Yvonne was saying on my wages I would n't get a mortgage ! |
| 12 | It was known on what path he would be returning — or at least , according to what he had led us all to believe . |
| 13 | Had I known I was trespassing on his domain I would never have entered the woods so lightly . |
| 14 | He wore a hair-net and was brandishing on his fist his Caesar wig with the laurel wreath . |