Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Technological improvements allowed them to capitalize on that wealth in the 1920s . |
| 2 | I asked on that occasion for considerably more information . |
| 3 | When I insist on that priority , as I can tell you I most certainly will — with the full support of the Prime Minister in doing so — then I 'm sure my colleagues will see the point of that . |
| 4 | I sit on that bench for quite a while — till it starts getting dark . |
| 5 | The R/T was bad and I thought he said ‘ below you ’ so I concentrated on that section of the sky almost exclusively , leaving it to Dick to watch above us . |
| 6 | What I done on that night was no more than any other police officer does or would do in the same situation . |
| 7 | Yes , it 's just a plaque and erm but The thing that erm I enjoyed on that occasion was meeting the other conservationists who 'd been called up . |
| 8 | When I get on that plane , I 'll just sit myself in a corner and concentrate on what I have to do . |
| 9 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 10 | To my way of thinking you had seen too much of my secretary , I decided on that instant that to take you out of his vicinity was an excellent idea . ’ |
| 11 | Yes , I went on that voyage as cook , and the beauty of it was the boat was called the Happy Days ! |
| 12 | Erm yes erm well at the ti at first I could only move my head , but when I went on that holiday , St Giles had been working on me with nerve machines and muscle machines |
| 13 | I went on that morning to sell this union the benefits we provide . |
| 14 | A private internal affair needed resolving , and I went on that review group , I was prepared to do all that I could to resolve it . |
| 15 | Nobody 's got any expectations of what I do on that day . |
| 16 | Certainly it would be very difficult to introduce any statistical rational erm to the desegregation of Greater York to its district components , bearing in mind the small populations er in some of the Greater York er districts , we think that the general level of detail erm in the structure plan is appropriate , and we think to go down to any finer detail would be an inappropriate to a structure plan , and thirdly I think on that issue , er we would think that it would prejudice erm the work that District Council would want to do erm in their er local plans . |
| 17 | I think on that note we might now pass on er to er presentation of bills . |
| 18 | Shame I won on that lottery Gary ! |
| 19 | What I said on that occasion was to confirm a policy agreed with the hon. Gentleman 's own party . |
| 20 | Oh I did n't like them I was , I could see them riding up the leg just like that pair I had on that day and in the end they look so grey and they look like |
| 21 | As a matter of fact , before I left on that Friday evening I bought a painting from her — The Blind Gypsy — for my mother 's birthday . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There are still so many grey areas when I reflect on that trip , Fernando , ’ she murmured . |
| 23 | A travel book would not be enough : anything I wrote on that country would need to be designed to assist , in however small a way , the war effort , even though Italy was still uninvolved . |
| 24 | ‘ What would you give me if I stood on that boulder on one leg ? ’ asked Christopher , eyeing a small rock on the extreme edge of the cliff . |
| 25 | Nairn , as a holiday resort , has the name ‘ the Rye of the North ’ , and along the shore and near the golf clubs — one of them built on that land donated by David Thomson 's great-uncle — people park caravans hoping for mildness from the Moray Firth . |
| 26 | I do n't think we did this one properly did we ? you only use your right hand cos you push on that foot |
| 27 | It seems they had two er registers really , one register meant that you were a part of the movement , the other register I imagine meaning you were actually an enemy of this movement so if you got on that register you , you were in , that that would er spell very bad news , so consequently you were trying to join the , the , the first association . |
| 28 | Did you knock on that door ? |
| 29 | What do you think on that Barry , on that score ? |
| 30 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |