Example sentences of "on [pers pn] [coord] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was already here when we moved in and to start with I thought it would make the room seem too gloomy , but it 's grown on me and I really like it now , ’ says Mary Jane , who works part-time as a physiotherapist . |
| 2 | We never based ourselves on them but we just developed that way . |
| 3 | I am sorry if I appeared to spring the letter on you and I fully understand your desire to get it right . |
| 4 | But after she moved in , the house began to grow on her and she already had plenty of ideas for improving what had originally been three farm workers ' cottages . |
| 5 | determination under a contract between two parties owes a duty of care to both those parties , because both will rely on him and him alone to get the determination right , if for no other reason than that they will be bound by it . |
| 6 | Instead she had leant even more on him and he just could n't take it , so had chosen the easy way out . |
| 7 | And same as she says , she needs a row to clear the air , so picks on him and he just ducks . |
| 8 | On 20 March 1989 papers were served on him and he then consulted a solicitor for the first time . |
| 9 | that combine , the she just trod on it but she never saw it ! |
| 10 | ‘ I slept on it but I still was n't sure exactly what was going on . ’ |
| 11 | Everyone knew this , but only the Japanese acted on it and they now have a ten-year lead in robotics . |
| 12 | erm I think perhaps we were on erm traffic management generally , you mentioned Howard Street and Magdalen Street , which you all know you know has always been a bone of contention amongst the Conservatives erm they spent two hundred thousand on it and they now want another two hundred and fifty thousand to make it permanent , and so on and so forth . |
| 13 | As the ground had dried out it was also a surprise that he should go so quickly on it and he just tired at Valentine 's second-time . |