Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleanor Thorne moved her head about uneasily on the pillow for a moment or two , wishing she had not complained about the soap , for now Alida might change the brand , keep that tablet to herself , And if it did not lather well , it had such a distinctive scent , a scent Eleanor liked . |
| 2 | It is claimed that after decay of the soft tissues , small mammal bone does not survive exposure for long on the ground , becoming soft and disintegrating within one year ( Voorhies , 1969 ) . |
| 3 | Generally speaking , the amount of sleep lost is not made up for entirely on the recovery nights . |
| 4 | To claim your goodies , you need to arrive at the box office after 10.00am on the date of the film you want to see , bearing a copy of that day 's Independent . |
| 5 | and the final year I think there 's sort of less on the timetable but people tend to do more work for it and do a project as well but in the , in the first year erm you know it 's not that difficult to , to pass it erm er and there are always the , the , the referred papers in September so if you 're , if you 're keen |
| 6 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 7 | Cocoa prices in 1989 also tumbled to a 14-year low owing to the sixth consecutive year of oversupply on the world market ( estimated at between 100,000-154,000 tonnes for 1989-90 ) ; failure to agree on the minimum price to be defended and continuing problems stemming from unpaid producer levies , estimated in 1989 to be well over $100,000 million . |
| 8 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 9 | Retain a copy of both on the client file , and put a further copy of both on the department 's CFS file . |
| 10 | About ten miles east of here on the coast . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's rented an old farmhouse right out in the middle of nowhere on the common , beyond your place and even more isolated , believe it or not . |
| 12 | Two further examples may show the effect of Ultra on the conduct of the war : the sinking of the Bismarck on 27 May 1941 ; and that critical moment in the Western Desert in August 1942 when Montgomery , through Ultra , was able to predict the direction and strength of Rommel 's attack at Alam Halfa , where the Axis failure prepared the ground for the British success at El Alamein in the autumn . |
| 13 | ‘ He loved my dollars more , ’ Jared Tunstall had replied , hard for once on the daughter he had always indulged . |
| 14 | In the Gospels Jesus is for ever on the move . |
| 15 | Mickey Mouse is the symbol of healthy American children , but underneath that there are kids — like yesterday on the TV news — who are shooting their teachers in school . ’ |
| 16 | If the matter is dealt with purely on the basis of the doctrine of consent , then I submit that there is no room here for invalidating the transsexual 's consent . |
| 17 | A loud slam from somewhere on the floor below put an end to further reluctance . |
| 18 | From somewhere on the hillside I could hear the clip-clop of a cow 's feet . |
| 19 | The last communication had been a letter from somewhere on the west coast of America , and my eventual reply had been returned ‘ not known at this address ’ . |
| 20 | Although he was pleased that they had managed to set everything up on time , he continued to mutter about the remaining android being alive , threatening them from somewhere on the planet . |
| 21 | " Of course , he could have been put in somewhere on the flood and been carried upstream and then down again . |
| 22 | Police plan security checks from 8am on the road between Balmoral Castle and the church . |
| 23 | The pattern of old stream courses can be clearly seen from above on the valley floors , but Peel believes that spring sapping may have been very important in the formation of the wadis . |
| 24 | That they never bore fruit was due as much to Bolshevik neglect of them as to the eventual insistence from above on the abolition of the private farms . |
| 25 | Lucy 's voice was calling her from outside on the landing . |
| 26 | It is therefore proposed that the mare infills are the result of dust migrating into the mare basins from elsewhere on the Moon . |
| 27 | The conductor does Beethoven no favours and the ballet is a little long but is worth seeing ) , Requiem tonight , 27 Oct ( when Sylvie Guillem dances Grand Pas Classique with Cope ) ; La Bayadere Fri ( Guillem , Bussell , Cope 13 Oct ) ; Postal booking : Prince of the Pagodas. 7 Dec ( Gala ) , 8 , 11 , 14 , 15 , 19 , 20 Dec. 65 amphitheatre seats are sold from 10am on the day . |
| 28 | Langbaurgh 's mountain bike series concludes in Guisborough Woods on tomorrow with registration from 8.30am on the day . |
| 29 | Last entries must be received before 5pm on the day . |
| 30 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |