Example sentences of "on [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Helga Maria was finally towed into the remote Faroe Islands , a coastguard said : ‘ They were on nothing but a bottle drifting on the high seas . |
| 2 | There was an increase in the urban programme but on nothing like the scale he wanted . |
| 3 | Where great houses , from the middle ages into the seventeenth century , had been built to contain a single household in an ordered hierarchy beneath one roof , their classical counterparts in the eighteenth century and Regency became increasingly an expression of stratification into two quite distinct classes , though as yet on nothing like the scale of the grand Victorian house . |
| 4 | From this point on everyone in the movie starts colliding like large tankers with their navigation shot to hell . |
| 5 | Lancashire County Council leader Louise Ellman said the document drawn up by the North West Regional Association which she chairs would have an impact on everyone in the region . |
| 6 | As I prowled about outside the garden wall , it came on me with a start that a young , man was regarding me over the barrel of a pistol . |
| 7 | It 's been creeping up on me for a while . |
| 8 | ‘ I was so happy when he kinda stopped chewing on me for a second . ’ |
| 9 | All it is yeah , is a project yeah that six peo me and other five other people yeah in the school were asked to do yeah for a university which is studying ch er children 's language yeah and what it 's like and basically I 've got to carry it on me for a weekend yeah , record loads of different conversations on ten different tapes |
| 10 | Maybe I 'd set him at ease by saying ‘ g'day ’ , but he looked like he 'd known me all his eight years , and leant quite steadily on me for the drive to Robert 's parents ' cottage , where we arranged photos . |
| 11 | ‘ It means , mother , that Craig is trying to put the blame on me for the thieving he 's done . ’ |
| 12 | He may have been dependent on me for the time being for his physical well-being , but at the deepest level he was dependent on Montaine . |
| 13 | Both have had an enormous impact on me as a teacher . |
| 14 | I have been a manager long enough to know the fans only look on me as a punch bag , constantly on the end of the verbal one-two . |
| 15 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 16 | A burst of laughter , another joke , more laughter , more jokes , laughter/jokes/laughter/jokes in an escalating feedback spiralling higher , robbing the guests of the ability to eat , straining our jawbones , while Robin is relentless , driven , reckless , focusing on me as the host — host of the dinner , but of his wit — reducing my voluble everyday self to a tongue-tied Zeppo Marx , hallucinating , hungry , exhausted , and in pain , until kapow ! |
| 17 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 18 | I 've got half a dozen billeted on me at the moment . |
| 19 | You 've done nothing but hit on me since the day — ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll be doing a runner on me in a minute , wo n't you ? ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're going to drop some on me in a moment . ’ |
| 22 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 23 | There , next to Miss Temple , stood the same black column which had frowned on me in the breakfast-room at Gateshead . |
| 24 | She continued : ‘ I am 70 years old but I felt I must make this sacrifice for them , even though the constraints on me in the future are very great . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Then we come up on me in the studio . |
| 26 | I explained , as gently as possible , that my mother was very old-fashioned and always checked up on me in the morning . |
| 27 | I suspect that Mum is angry about this , as she usually relies on me in the summer to look after my younger sister while she is at work . |
| 28 | She had the edge on me from the point of view of rank , but I felt secure in the knowledge that ‘ J ’ ( my Corporal ) did n't want to take her out anyway . |
| 29 | It 's fun really , because I can enjoy myself , I 've got no pressure on me from the party to succeed , ’ he said gamely . |
| 30 | He turned on me like a snake . |