Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I know is that she never said so , and they 'd have had precious little opportunity , one or other of them being on call for two out of any three nights . ’ |
| 2 | yeah , yeah , I did n't know what they were like at seventy two it just said on window on one of them shops on Baldwin Lane |
| 3 | ‘ It is my wish that my Clerk Mr. Prince who is well acquainted with my business and affairs and in whom I place great confidence should continue in the management and conduct of the same … to sell and dispose or exchange all or any of my works on Ornithology and specimens of Natural History in the manner I have been accustom to do … to continue or complete as far as practicable the publication of any work or works of mine on Ornithology and to do all other [ illegible ] by issuing a Prospectus advertising the same … to purchase all necessary materials articles and things fit and proper for the carrying on of my business … to borrow for a temporary period any money from my Bankers , Messrs Drummond and Company … and if there by any surplus available for the purpose to invest the same in purchase of Stock … to pay the rent and taxes … make up , adjust and settle all and every or any Accounts … [ and generally ] to do perform and execute all and every or any other acts deeds matters and things whatsoever are necessary to be done in all other my concerns engagements affairs and business whatsoever during my absence from England as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as I myself might or could do if I were personally present and did the same . ’ |
| 4 | You praised two of my members on Friday , another one today , you after them or something ? |
| 5 | I was terrified of knocking on the door of the house to ask permission but I was even more terrified of going back and making a fool of myself because of my ignorance on court so I spent the rest of the afternoon skulking behind the sweet peas . ’ |
| 6 | I am in receipt of your letter dated 27 October , received by fax , and by now you are no doubt aware of my views on yhe decidion to sell David Batty . |
| 7 | It was one of the best days of my life on Saturday 26th October . |
| 8 | I thin I 'll spend most of my life on boats . |
| 9 | I gave him an account of my adventures on Winter Marsh . |
| 10 | Not to fly home from any of my tournaments on Friday night ( Saturday morning will do ) . |
| 11 | There 's not a great deal for me to say , but I seem to spend most of my time on stage . |
| 12 | The print , called ‘ Suspense ’ , hung over my parents ' bed and from a very early age I wished that I could have a dog like that — have a look at the picture of my Nip on page 110 . |
| 13 | Perhaps my problem is the way I perceived the first news of the crumbling of the old Europe ; sitting in hospital and festooned in drip feeds and stoned out of my mind on pethidine as I came round from an anaesthetic , I muzzily watched the news on the TV in the corner of my room and truly believed I was hallucinating as I saw kitchen choppers taking down the Berlin Wall ; after such a beginning to the thaw , how can I believe that as well as East Germany 's arrival in the West , Czechoslovakia is almost herself again . |
| 14 | There are snags here and there , and your patience is somewhat tested by the sheer overload of songs , yet you ca n't complain when both ‘ Read It In Books ’ and ‘ Bouncing Babies ’ retain their original qualities , and especially when ‘ Out Of My Mind On Dope And Speed ’ condenses three decades into three minutes . |
| 15 | FLOORED GENIUS — The Best of Julian Cope and The Teardrop Explodes ( Island ) Spanning a decade of Cope 's wilfully erratic career , this potent compilation includes such brilliantly idiosyncratic moments as ‘ Reward ’ , ‘ World Shut Your Mouth ’ and ‘ Out of My Mind on Dope and Speed ’ . |
| 16 | However , if I have the company of my husband on Beejay to protect me , I find the confidence to take horses who are nt trustworthy in traffic . |
| 17 | I DID N'T sleep too well on the night before our last Inter-Continental Cup match against Cuba in Poznan — I woke up at six o'clock in the morning thinking about the future of the Irish hockey team and began to put down some of my ideas on paper . |
| 18 | As a regular broadcaster on local radio I went along to Radio Nottingham for one of my phone-ins on slimming . |
| 19 | I had to think of her seeing the copy of my cock on Monday , I had to think of her first thinking , ‘ Golly , what a nut ’ , and then finding she had to stare uncontrollably at the specific image of my cock , boyoing , had to file that image away in a secret file folder where she filed away all my asterisk memos , and that some night working late , she 'd reach her long arms down to that drawer and bring out the asterisk file and go through the pages , asterisk after asterisk , until she found my cock . |
| 20 | One thing that I had to say , frankly , at the beginning of my book on allegory was that The Tempest was not the necessary base of that book . |
| 21 | One thing that I had to say , frankly , at the beginning of my book on allegory , was that The Tempest was not the necessary base of that book . |
| 22 | However I would like to commen comment in my name in terms of my amendment on page sixty five of the blue paper to deliverance four on what seems to me their very seriously limited expression of the work of the holy spirit as guiding us only in our understanding of the bible . |
| 23 | This was his midweek check-up , anticipating the full review of my homework on Sunday afternoons . |
| 24 | As a result of my article on computer tidal prediction in the December issue , several readers have asked what practical advice I can offer about the effects of abnormal meteorological conditions on tide predictions and when to apply correction to take them into account . |
| 25 | ‘ A ship 's overdue with one of my men on board . |
| 26 | Next morning was fair and sunny , with a breeze , but I journeyed duly into outer space , to tackle the problems of my party on Terra Secunda . |
| 27 | In section six of my submission on behalf of Residents I refer to the environmental impact of traffic flow changes on existing roads . |
| 28 | They 're already legends in their own village shop after a play of their single on Radio 1 , and judging by their quietly addictive sixth form pop tunes , the whole of Rutland could soon follow . |
| 29 | They were staying in the house and were joined almost daily by a number of their friends on holiday on the coast . |
| 30 | Here is the quintessence of Rough Trade , personified by toothless Scottish ex-merchant seamen , clearly chosen not for their specialist knowledge of haute cuisine , but simply because of their sure-footedness on floors that list alternately from port to starboard . |