Example sentences of "on the [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mitchell trained as a journalist on The Scotsman and worked for the Scottish Tourist Board , Apex Publishing in Oman and British Gas Scotland before setting up Elliot Mitchell Communications , which later merged with Commpress . |
| 2 | With a yell , Daine got both hands on the stake and wrenched . |
| 3 | Joseph had subsequently been to the villa on the Cap and talked about a show in New York . |
| 4 | Merely to stand in such a position will give you some idea of the strain such a position exerts on the groin and accounts for the number of injuries Wasim has incurred in that region . |
| 5 | ‘ When we pulled out of Jaffa , I stood on the stern and looked out over the old city , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Let's say twenty minutes , wo n't take more than that then we could get Clare you put your bicycle right outside of the shop , put it on the railings and go in , that 's it then . |
| 7 | The group of horsemen , wide-scattered , not in any formation , appeared silhouetted on the ridge and came streaming on towards the ford . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid you 'll have to go easy on the Sangria while taking the tablets , and on the swimming too . ’ |
| 9 | Sit out on the veranda and drink in the stunning view as you sip your gin pahit ( pink gin ) . |
| 10 | A fat Jaguar promptly swerved past him , closed up on the truck and started weaving in and out , forced back every time . |
| 11 | Came into Harwich on the ferry and called in the Uni on the off-chance . ’ |
| 12 | The regular commuters get out their cards the minute they get on the ferry and play with great gusto . |
| 13 | In the early days , shipowners and shippers petitioned the Crown to let somebody build a lighthouse and charge a specified levy on the ships that benefited from it . |
| 14 | The poster had been pasted on the building that housed It . |
| 15 | Koriyama city was able to provide the museum with a budget of ¥6,400 million ( £26.6 million ) , spending ¥4,000 million ( £16.6 million ) on the building and reserving the rest for acquisitions . |
| 16 | It was the relatively long period of life from birth to the end of physical dependence on the parents that built into the human being , an eradicable awareness of his vulnerability and a deeply-rooted instinctive expectation that his needs will be met from a source outside himself . |
| 17 | Go upwards and stand on top of the wall ( above the window ) , go to the left of the wall and paint some ledges , then go onto the wall on the left , go left and shoot the switch , go up on the painted ledges and head right along the wall above you , go up on the trampoline and paint the button , go left along the passage , jump onto the trampoline , and from there onto the ledge on the left wall , jump to collect the painting , fall down and go up on the right of the window ( paint some ledges ) . |
| 18 | The turf , dense and springy after the summer 's rain , was rolled into even stripes which led the eye away to the pine woods in the middle distance ; the forest obscured what had once been an inspiring view of the valley of the Dee , but shielded the castle from curious passers-by on the road that followed the river banks . |
| 19 | The cars parked one behind the other in a row on the road that crossed the green from the Hall to the church . |
| 20 | Within six months , however , he had left the Party and set out on the road that led to the formation of the British Union of Fascists in 1932 . |
| 21 | In the audience was Paul Palmer , a geophysicist , and it was from this that Jones became involved with solid state fusion and set out on the road that led to his interactions with Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 22 | Lorries bullied past on the road that had once been a tow-path ; pile-drivers banged on both sites of the river ; no boat could pass without hooting . |
| 23 | St Paul was struck by his vision on the road that passed the small saw-mills , whining blades slicing through timber . |
| 24 | It comes out on the road that joins Cambo to the small town of Hasparren , a Roman foundation but a nondescript place today . |
| 25 | President Mubarak of Egypt has announced that a new archaeological museum , the largest in the world , will be built to the west of the pyramids on the plateau of Giza , on the road that links Cairo with Alexandria . |
| 26 | Turn left on the road and walk for around 900 yards before turning right onto a path which leads up to the old railway and joins a road up to Castle Bolton Village . |
| 27 | He left them on the road and went and tried again . |
| 28 | Tomorrow night we 'll show exclusive pictures of the MG RV8 on the road and ask why Rover is to bring back the car it killed off over a decade ago . |
| 29 | Crazy it is , especially on the much longed-for MZ replacement , a Kawasaki ZZ-R1100 , capable of massively out-accelerating every car on the road and reaching 175mph along Barassie beach . |
| 30 | I parked Armstrong on the road and walked down the short drive to the impressive Gothic porch around the front door . |