Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both cases I worked on oil on panel which I later fixed to the walls . |
| 2 | I realized , thinking about it afterwards , that they were the numbers of the various different bus-routes I used on my way to school , together with the relevant extracts from their timetables . |
| 3 | If this is so , can you please let me have one of the two data only copies I requested on 14 February ( Ref. 020 ) ? |
| 4 | One of the last cruises I enjoyed on Viking took us south as far as Oban . |
| 5 | Four times I went on long visits to the St Jerome , his finest work . |
| 6 | We held hands going to school every morning , Jimmy and I , and three times I stood on my head for him at Miss Annie 's to prove my love . |
| 7 | But players ' agent Leigh Steinberg counters : ‘ You would n't be numb to it if you got the tearful phone calls I get on Sunday nights and Monday mornings . |
| 8 | He was quite different from the stringy little animals I saw on my daily round . |
| 9 | I remember when they went to Korea and they had to have these overcoats I sewed on hundreds of buttons , about 10 minutes each coat . |
| 10 | This massacre of the innocents I blame on The Silk Plant Company whose trees , plants and flowers are so lifelike , one can be forgiven for doubting the real thing . |
| 11 | I surreptitiously read certain books I found on his shelves . |
| 12 | We studied the operations required by those dominant data-types which act on a complete word : fixed and floating-point binary arithmetic , and logical values . |
| 13 | The first , comprising Chapters 2–4 , introduces the main debates in International Relations and the philosophical considerations which bear on them . |
| 14 | Two organizations which advise on sports for the disabled are the British Sports Association for the Disabled , and ‘ Les Autres Sports ’ . |
| 15 | Penry shot upright , yawning mightily as he rubbed eyes which focused on her with a noticeable lack of warmth . |
| 16 | Just as Inter-railers traditionally take overnight express trains to get a night 's sleep , so small teams of Germans are roaming North America , checking the schedules carefully for flights with catering or overnight trips which save on accommodation . |
| 17 | In the first two books there are also units which focus on situational English , while in the later parts of the series a functional syllabus is combined with a structural grading . |
| 18 | Chainarong Noonpakdi , head of the First army region and responsible for directing the army units which fired on the unarmed demonstrators , was made director of the Institute of Army Academics . |
| 19 | It was subsequently noticed that the corresponding Corporation cars and the ex-Gravesend cars which ran on Brill 22E bogies did not suffer from so many derailments , even though the bogies of the latter were reversed . |
| 20 | ‘ No , it were n't an interositor , them has triangular screens and positronic wave cross-band modulators which operate on the principle of ionized beta photons bombarding the nucleus of an alpha particle . |
| 21 | Ruth wondered if she was gazing at the dark whiskers which sprouted on her chin and made her so appropriately , though unfortunately , named . |
| 22 | Under the 1950 Shops Act the council has a duty to prosecute shops which trade on a Sunday . |
| 23 | The examples of ( 10 ) have interesting implications , but we shall restrict ourselves here to those aspects which bear on adjectival grammar ; we take them as confirming evidence that we are justified in following Bolinger and recognizing that certain adjectives qualify another property , qua property , and are not to be assigned , independently , to any entity present in or assumed by the structure of the sentence in which they appear . |
| 24 | The defendants applied to strike out the statement of claim of the local authority on a preliminary issue on the grounds that the authority could not maintain an action in libel for words which reflected on it in relation to its governmental and administrative functions and that the statement of claim disclosed no cause of action . |
| 25 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 26 | She dug her fingers in his hair convulsively and said the words which floated on top of her mind , thoughtlessly ; if she had thought about them , she would never have said them . |
| 27 | All opportunities which appear on the ABN are screened against Buyers . |
| 28 | And her voice was a parody of a servant 's showing dissent , a politeness which verged on the impolite . |
| 29 | The ecological model starts from the position that the growth and development of children can be understood only in relation to the nature of their interactions with the various environments which impinge on them and with which they are constantly interacting . |
| 30 | There had been a series of rumours about accidents : pods which malfunctioned on impact , leaving their passengers trapped and helpless ; pods which misinterpreted conditions of temperature and air pressure , releasing their human cargo while they were still several kilometres above ground . |