Example sentences of "a [noun sg] on [noun] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A presumed member of Hizbollah , Ali Mohamed Hariri , is in prison in Switzerland for the murder of a Frenchman on board an Air Afrique airliner during a hijack attempt which ended in Geneva in July 1987 — and Hariri 's release is said here to have been part of the price which the Swiss government secretly agreed to pay for the release of Peter Winkler , the Red Cross official who was freed in Sidon 10 months ago . |
| 2 | By 1939 there were two million private cars and taxation was no more than 10 per cent for a man on £500 a year . |
| 3 | And the idea is that as we 've done with previous erm , discussions , if each one could come along armed with some information to do with healthy eating , erm , there 's a list on page a hundred and seventeen , that might start you off thinking . |
| 4 | ‘ They held a line on Stanley a lot — Kirk , Eddie Lewis [ the producer ] and Universal . |
| 5 | Erm say you 've got a stone on top a cliff . |
| 6 | The identification of fire arms is not difficult in crash wreckage but it is less easy to be certain that an explosion on board an aircraft in flight resulted from a bomb or perhaps a disintegrating turbine disc or an explosive decompression of the cabin . |
| 7 | An Astropath on board a barge bound on the long slow haul from Karkason to the dwarf partner star , Karka Secundus , had chanced to eavesdrop on a telepathic message from the mining world to one of those agric planets that Sagramoso had seduced , using pirates paid with power crystals as his emissaries — pirates who had made themselves scarce with their illicit starships when the crusade had come through the Warp to Karka 's Sun . |