Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the mental health commission , a body which monitors standards in mental hospitals , says in a report that at Coney Hill hospital patients were locked in the seclusion rooms for too long because there were n't enough staff to look after them properly on the wards . |
| 2 | Right , if you just want to come out of there and we 'll just have a look at the plot of the residuals , if you plot the residuals the test for serial correlation there well the test for serial correlation , right , and try and determine whether there 's a auto regressive structure to those parameters and I think Steve was talking to you about er auto regressions , so what the computer is doing essentially , it is getting the residuals from the model raised and it 's regressing them right on the residuals in the previous period , right , and it 's testing whether this parameter row , right , is significantly different from zero right , now if this is , if row is significantly different from zero , let's say it 's nought point six , that implies the residuals in T are not independent of the residuals in T minus one . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , all inductivists would claim that in so far as scientific theories can be justified , they are justified by supporting them inductively on the basis of some more-or-less secure basis provided by experience . |
| 4 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 5 | He gets up , holding the thin sheets of paper in front of him , perhaps just a little further away from himself than he normally would , and puts them delicately on the desk in front of me . |
| 6 | ‘ It caught me right on the side of my face , ’ she said . |
| 7 | And he 's he 's turned over this and just gon na slap one on me and I 've turned my head and gone like that and he 's fucking caught me right on the fucking lips ! |
| 8 | no here they are , I know I 've seen them somewhere on the window sill |
| 9 | ‘ Thank you , darling , ’ she said and punched me vigorously on the arm to tell me to get lost , though it was half a joke , it 's always half a joke with Dodger . |
| 10 | She was unimpressed by both her grandfather 's reputation and his work : she had removed from her bedroom wall a large still-life of gladioli and a small representation of a baby 's head and stacked them carelessly on the landing in order to make room for a poster of Humphrey Bogart . |
| 11 | If you are using guitar machine heads ( far more easily adjusted than pegs , which also require special tools to fit them accurately ) it is more convenient to modify the shape of the head and fit them only on the left ( if you are right-handed ) in the manner of Fender guitars . |
| 12 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 13 | Whereas the vertical combs of honey-bees have cells on both sides , the paper-wasp 's horizontal combs have them only on the under-surface . |
| 14 | ‘ Certainly the play advocates a continuation of the war , as plays nowadays are required to do , ’ said Deems , folding his hands and placing them gently on the table before him , as if to show that he concealed nothing . |
| 15 | ‘ I said to Bernie if they were mine I 'd want to take them inside on a night . |
| 16 | However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him . |
| 17 | If you closed your eyes you could imagine them together on the promenade , arm-in-arm like they should be , the doctor with a silver-knobbed stick , loving one another in a public place . |
| 18 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 19 | He did n't know what was happening between Gesner and Suzi any more , had n't seen either of them since the Season began , since that dreadful scene at Willi 's party , but he knew he had to submit himself to yet another bout of torture and watch them together on the stage . |
| 20 | They went into the staff-room and grabbed a coffee while they waited for the results , then they studied them together on the lightbox . |
| 21 | Let him take his chauffeur 's cap off very slowly and say softly to me , ‘ oh sir , I do n't never want to work for anyone else , never ’ ; let him kneel by the side of the great bed , in the moonlight , and let him lean over to kiss me gently on the lips and to run his leather-gloved hand tenderly across my cheek , across my lips , through my hair , saying all the time , ‘ oh sir , I 'm here sir , I 'm right here , I 'm right here by the bed ; was you calling me sir , did you call me ? ’ |
| 22 | The elephants were n't swimming in the pond , they were floating on their backs , and one of them was balancing me gently on the flat tops of its upturned feet . |
| 23 | He patted me gently on the shoulder . |
| 24 | Is yours right on the A fifty nine . |
| 25 | That 's right yes I spoke to someone yesterday on the phone and they said to pop it in , since I lived so close . |
| 26 | Self-evaluation , no matter how carefully the staff and governors try to be objective , lacks the valuable insight of someone genuinely on the outside looking in . |
| 27 | Theodora recalled its tensely held eye and mouth muscles : the face of someone perpetually on the verge of panic . |
| 28 | I , I , I also on the five , the er |
| 29 | Are the systems in the this ourselves now on the responsibility of the sample videos that are now running smoothly . |
| 30 | What I can do is bring you someone now on the line who can tell us exactly why that decision was made and exactly why that money was spent in the way it was because we 've been joined by Councillor John Power . |