Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 2 | Actual guides were waiting for them on the Scots side , from the Graham tower , producing a grim smile from Douglas , for one of his principal headaches as Keeper of Liddesdale was apt to be the inroads and cross-border raiding of these same Grahams , Kirkandrews prominent . |
| 3 | It was close in the end but it might have been even tighter if Colbert had n't made way for them on the last stage . |
| 4 | Ann , would you be able to have Sally for me on the first of May ? |
| 5 | He was good enough to organize a complimentary flight for me on the Imperial Airways ' flying boat which plied the sea and air routes between Long Island Sound and Bermuda several times each week . |
| 6 | Nine till one for me on the late show Adrian . |
| 7 | Please reserve a place for me on the POTENTIAL TEACHERS DAY on Saturday 8th March , for which I enclose the fee of £5.00 . |
| 8 | My father looked after me on the long journey home , and sat with me for every minute . |
| 9 | Their conversation ceased as the eloquent tones of Michael Stein carried towards them on the public address system . |
| 10 | They crossed the road to face the oncoming traffic and had just passed a 40 mph speed limit sign when he looked over his shoulder and saw a car heading towards them on the wrong side of the road . |
| 11 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |
| 12 | She walked ahead of me on the narrow path ; she had slender legs and pretty ankles . |
| 13 | ‘ I felt I might have passed the pair in front of me on the last lap but what was the point , I had no chance of winning and this is a tough circuit . ’ |
| 14 | But I 've seen a few of them on the slippery slope — the Shiny Set , the stars , the Washington |
| 15 | I can hear the two of them on the narrow stair outside , Summerchild placing his feet with ostentatious care on each step , bending his head rather further than is strictly necessary under the low ceiling , while Serafin demonstrates his effortless familiarity with such picturesque difficulties . |
| 16 | There was one of them on the other side of the street . |
| 17 | There have been before the present application which was approved , there have been applications refused because the Oxford City Planning Committee were concerned particularly about er access and parking arrangements , and the effects of the extensions er on the front of the building , er very close to Sandy Lane , by the impact of those buildings in particular on residential amenity , on the houses and the occupants of them on the other side of Sandy Lane . |
| 18 | The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October . |
| 19 | He bombarded Burghley with schemes for exploiting Newfoundland in 1585 and 1586 , interestingly proposing the financing of one of them on the tontine principle , but they involved impractical proposals , as the international fishery could not be controlled by any one country except at vast expense . |
| 20 | Markby nodded towards the line of people ahead of them on the flagged pathway to the church door . |
| 21 | And if you ever came up with eight of them on the one coupon , you could also mark X in the box for no publicity as you made plans to spend , spend , spend . |
| 22 | These shepherds live wild , most of them on the same mountain just outside Florence , in abandoned houses which often have no light or running water . |
| 23 | She lay on her back on the grass within the avenue made by the great standing stones , between the ninth and tenth of them on the northern side . |
| 24 | After all , the Minister is surrounded by a large number of them on the Conservative Benches . |
| 25 | It was strange , his feeling of contentment , sitting here in this garden , empty coffee cups in front of them on the white table . |
| 26 | Nearby is Villa Taranto , famous for having over 20,000 plants and trees on display , many of them on the endangered list . |
| 27 | He had been retired since 1979 after completing 42 years ' service — 12 of them on the main board . |
| 28 | Victor Wellington said there was a ring of yours on the dead woman 's left hand . ’ |
| 29 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought I would leave a few of you on the G'bai side of the mountains with the pack beasts . |