Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pron] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Council members mostly agreed they are a hazard , and Peter pointed out that if the car that hit him on a roundabout had been fitted with them , he would n't be here now . |
| 2 | This is merely the reaction time required in picking up the card and placing it on a pile without making any choice based on the value of the card . |
| 3 | ‘ It tripped on the rein and lamed itself on a tree-root , ’ said Crane . |
| 4 | At Skouriotissa a bulldozer scoops up ancient slag and dumps it on a new road . |
| 5 | ‘ The vessel , from Bangor Marina , was half-sunk , but the Hummer and the lifeboat managed to tow it into the harbour and beach it on a mud bank , ’ the spokesman said . |
| 6 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 7 | Her husband Harold was a lamplighter and when he came home from work he was obliged to take off his boots in the passage and place them on a sheet of newspaper before entering the inner sanctum . |
| 8 | He had realised , for instance , when Martha was born , that he would do well to take flowers to the hospital , but not that if you buy an azalea in winter and carry it on a bus and through a number of cold streets , all the buds will drop off before you arrive . |
| 9 | A group of Turkish workers in South London buy lamb and bread and take it on a coach to the striking miners in Wales ( 1984 ) . |
| 10 | This occurred just after I took a turning and found myself on a road curving around the edge of a hill . |
| 11 | Answer the following question and send it on a postcard to The Krays , THE FACE , The Old Laundry , Ossington Buildings , London W1 . |
| 12 | Plans are afoot to dismantle the Control Tower brick by brick and reassemble it on a seven acre plot of land that has been acquired as a shrine to the famous musician . |
| 13 | The thing that you do best , which is playing guitar and doing it on a level which is artistic and creative , not only is that challenging but it 's satisfying too … ’ |
| 14 | I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know . |
| 15 | ‘ Christopher got this money and spent it on a holiday skiing . |
| 16 | Find the equation of the IS curve and plot it on a graph . |
| 17 | Alexandra ( 4.3 ) quite spontaneously sorted a set of pots , matched each with the right-sized lid and graded them on a shelf by size . |
| 18 | Up my elbow and er anyway put it used to take it back to the shop and er well I was still inside the shop , down to a certain place in the shop and put it on a on a stand and then there 'd be a on that stand , beside the bucket , was a a box of not Lux not Lux soap but er yellow soap . |
| 19 | Folasade felt she had changed in that having a baby had given her more confidence and put her on a more equal footing with her mother . |
| 20 | Canon says that Still Video is an ideal medium for multimedia presentations because users can mix photographs , text and graphics on a computer , record them on a still video disk and display them on a TV . |
| 21 | The EDFAX documentations states that the program allows users to compose and edit teletext pages of information store pages of information on disk recall pages of information from disk and display them on a screen create a local electronic magazine , database or notice board develop artistic and creative skills relating to the presentation of information develop language and communication skills gain an understanding of the videotext display format . |
| 22 | If he records his findings at each visit to a given process and plots them on a graph a tendency to drift can be detected . |
| 23 | If he records his findings at each visit to a given process and plots them on a graph a tendency to drift can be detected . |
| 24 | She went into another room and threw herself on a bed . |
| 25 | Valiant had a near miss at intercepting her one day as she homed into the Thames after a channel crossing but lost her on a chase up the Medway in which they stood no chance with the power boat 's superior speed . |
| 26 | Stand the pot in water until the surface of the compost looks moist , then pop a clear , polythene bag over the top and place it on a warm and sunny window-sill . |
| 27 | He unzipped his black jacket and flung it on a chair . |
| 28 | Boyd unzipped his sheepskin jacket and flung it on a kitchen chair , opened the plaid shirt he was wearing and scratched his chest wearily . |
| 29 | If the accused takes the umbrella and leaves it on a bus , the victim is unlikely to get it back . |
| 30 | The winner must waive the normal six months ' grace afforded to a champion and defend it on a 50-50 purse basis when called upon . |