Example sentences of "of [noun sg] on [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was one of those rough days , ’ Cooney admitted with a bruise under his left eye and a shining , tight patch of skin on his very large nose . |
| 2 | ‘ It was one of those rough days , ’ Cooney admitted with a bruise under his left eye and a shining , tight patch of skin on his very large nose . |
| 3 | Now this psychology , there 's absolutely loads of stuff on it so and the Maitlin book 's got quite a good coverage of it , so I 'll go over it quite quickly , alright ? |
| 4 | Her blouse had a splash of egg on it anyway . |
| 5 | She picked absent-mindedly at a piece of lint on one long denim-clad leg , unable for the moment to look into her friend 's probing blue eyes . |
| 6 | look up James , you 're okay , I 'm gon na put a bit of cream on you though let's put this tissue in the bin , right |
| 7 | You wo wo n't be able to record a lot of music on it though . |
| 8 | ‘ Otherwise I 'd spend the evening wondering if you were using that particular form of persuasion on someone else . ’ |
| 9 | In case you thought that the Mark 2 Project had died quietly in a corner somewhere ( given the lack of information on it recently ) it is in fact still very much alive and is making slow but steady progress . |
| 10 | Anyway , what I really want to talk about is engineering for our future in a way because I mean most of you er , listen to the doom and gloom and all the ni , all the er kind of statistics we 've seen that come out of the Engineering Prize Federation , the C B I , I wish somebody , for a change , would put a little bit of gloss on it instead of actually bringing up the statistics which show how badly we 're doing ! |
| 11 | There were many arguments about the validity of taking death rates as a proxy for ill health , but in the absence of agreement on anything better , they remain ( Mays and Bevan , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | Go and put some bi bit of mousse on it now . |