Example sentences of "on [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There followed lean years in a cottage in Sussex , ‘ living on nothing but spaghetti ’ while he perfected his newly-discovered skill . |
| 2 | Nikos is , among other things , a barefoot waterski champion and does the most wonderful tricks flying through the water at 60 mph on nothing but the soles of his size 11 feet ! |
| 3 | The busy ‘ factory ’ went on producing , running on nothing but aspiration , perseverance , and the passion for art . |
| 4 | After the Helga Maria was finally towed into the remote Faroe Islands , a coastguard said : ‘ They were on nothing but a bottle drifting on the high seas . |
| 5 | It had come from Chessington Zoo and trodden on nothing but concrete all its life . |
| 6 | But a new note has surfaced , a note which points out that while philosophical scepticism may have nourished and stimulated the mind of Greeks trained in civic religious observances , it was not nourishing to modern minds trained on nothing at all . |
| 7 | The generations of this century will , in their turn , hand on to the next generation the archaic unconscious problems , unless the guilt becomes too strong , the rebellion so great , the need to kill and be killed so overwhelming that we hand on nothing at all . |
| 8 | The slots and slits in their visors were full of dust , their drooping gauntlets gripped on nothing at all . |
| 9 | He twisted in the air , coming round to face her again , drawing his legs up under him , lying back on nothing with his heels against his buttocks , his knees spread . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 11 | He 's an expert on nothing except how to make profit . |
| 12 | It also incorporated a tiny iron-framed window with thick bubble-glass panes which opened and closed on nothing in particular . |
| 13 | There was an increase in the urban programme but on nothing like the scale he wanted . |
| 14 | Where great houses , from the middle ages into the seventeenth century , had been built to contain a single household in an ordered hierarchy beneath one roof , their classical counterparts in the eighteenth century and Regency became increasingly an expression of stratification into two quite distinct classes , though as yet on nothing like the scale of the grand Victorian house . |
| 15 | But , perhaps most importantly , there was an end in sight and soon my mother — who nursed him heroically for most of the year , and on whom by far the heaviest load had fallen and would fall — once again took over from me . |
| 16 | If I ca n't manage it in a quiet room , or a temporary study , I impose it on everyone at least for a short time . |
| 17 | At some earlier , more enthusiastic , stage in my career as a detective I had compiled dossiers on everyone of any importance in the City . |
| 18 | ‘ We know that these murderers are an assault on everyone of whatever denomination who claim Christ as their inspiration , ’ he said . |
| 19 | From this point on everyone in the movie starts colliding like large tankers with their navigation shot to hell . |
| 20 | There has been a strong movement in favour of delegalization and privatization of family and personal matters ; but when moral panic breaks out law continues to be invoked as ‘ binding on everyone in society , whatever their beliefs … the embodiment of a common moral position ’ , despite the recognition that ‘ in our pluralistic society it is not to be expected that any one set of principles can be enunciated to be completely accepted by everyone . ’ |
| 21 | Lancashire County Council leader Louise Ellman said the document drawn up by the North West Regional Association which she chairs would have an impact on everyone in the region . |
| 22 | This latter feature is , however , radiantly bestowed on everyone by the charismatic Norton . |
| 23 | you came up on me without warning |
| 24 | He was the young player who had made such an impression on me during my year on the amateur tour . |
| 25 | I did only one series of interviews with him and I do n't think it rubbed off on me to that extent . |
| 26 | What happens if there 's an assault on me to be taken into the reckoning ? |
| 27 | As he said , ‘ My position and my name impose obligations on me of whose importance I am well aware . ’ |
| 28 | There 's a young woman of 17 who lives just down the road from me and has taken to calling on me of late . |
| 29 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 30 | He turned on me with one of his nastiest looks . |