Example sentences of "something on " in BNC.
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| 1 | To standards of conduct attained in other countries , metropolitan standards , or to something on the island ? |
| 2 | Something on the glass . |
| 3 | I think you need something on the other panel , above the oculist charts , he said at last . |
| 4 | The input/central distinction is something on which I shall be heavily reliant when I come to my positive thesis . |
| 5 | She has done something , something on a different plane from making a toy church or pipping a social rival at the post or committing a mindless atrocity . |
| 6 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've learnt from our past mistakes in approaching Thurrock and Nottingham and we 'll use the experience we gain from Southwell to the full at Telford to build something on a far grander scale , ’ Muddle says confidently . |
| 8 | There are people who never leave home without one , while others feel ridiculous wearing something on their head . |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't feel dressed without something on my head or a really good hairdo — it 's got to be a hairdo or a hat ! ’ |
| 10 | He also had a more unusual reason for needing something on his head . |
| 11 | I just gave him something on the side . |
| 12 | The problem was that I think David was moving so much away and into this trip of actually doing music with a message — of actually delivering something on stage which meant something to other people of his age . |
| 13 | It would only be a matter of ti me before the pubs , the little grocer and the dry-cleaner 's were replaced by some establishment selling something on which an enormous mark-up could be obtained . |
| 14 | The F-14 is based on elderly technology , and it would be extremely expensive to produce a workable bomber from it , something on the order of $50m a copy . |
| 15 | His initial intention was to publish something on Epicurus merely as an appendix to the Exercises . |
| 16 | The waitress then finds something on the menu that approximates to it . |
| 17 | The boy was stooping now , searching for something on the bank . |
| 18 | He was wearing a tin helmet and staring at something on the wall , a picture . |
| 19 | ‘ He 's got something on his chest . |
| 20 | And Miss Lilian will be here to take her a nice little something on a tray if she wakes before we 're back . |
| 21 | On their way across the churchyard Mrs Hollidaye pointed down to something on the ground . |
| 22 | Lunch is often a sandwich or something on toast ( like cheese or eggs ) or a pie or pasty . |
| 23 | If we see something on the side of the road , and we think the horse may shy at it , and we look at it very hard and carefully , the horse tends to be less likely to shy . |
| 24 | And the polite , formally suited African was writing something on a sheet of paper , to her instructions . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to do something on Sunday . |
| 26 | The broker is still recommending the chemicals giant as the ‘ perfect election heldge ’ — if the Tories get in , the big blue chips can not fail to attract support ; if Labour prospers , well , at least there will be a few capital allowances washing around and , in the words of one dealer , ‘ fund managers will have to buy something on Friday morning ’ . |
| 27 | Perhaps she could get something on the N.H.S. ? |
| 28 | He claims he keeps tripping over something on the ground . |
| 29 | In ‘ The Pocket-Book 's Petition to Parthenissa ’ , the book begs Parthenissa to write something on one of its pages , after which it will be content : ‘ Nor once , repining at my Cell , / With Darkness , Dirt , and Mira , dwell ’ [ ML , 2 , 94 ] . |
| 30 | So far as teachers are concerned , it might be necessary to tap a pupil on the shoulder to point out that s/he has dropped something on the floor , or to grab hold of a pupil to prevent an assault by that pupil on another . |