Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 2 | After breakfast at the palace all the inmates are thrown out , whatever the weather , and the only place he can take his child is outside : " Usually I take my little boy at weekends to the fair at Whitley Bay , or I take him on the metro and we sit at the front — he loves trains . |
| 3 | Clare levered the coins off the counter , and carried her cup out into the small enclosure , where she balanced it on an unsteady iron table , her feet cushioned by a carpet of litter . |
| 4 | Because my one fear is saying , yes we need four per cent thinking that are gon na go for eight , ten or whatever to put us on a par |
| 5 | I fundamentally disagree with his proposition , although I congratulate him on the stand that he has taken for his principles . |
| 6 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 7 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 8 | Does Mike have some er Georgian Hotel , look at that Christmas jokes , Daddy , Eddie 's broken my new dog how did he do that I hit him on the head with it Why is Father Christmas unemployed ? |
| 9 | It is for that reason that I include it on the shortlist for the Worst Building in the World title . |
| 10 | IT was on a very wet Saturday afternoon that I found myself on the top of the North Downs observing whiffs of smoke emerging from a boiler which to all intents and purposes was standing among a mountain of waste metal in a field almost miles from anywhere . |
| 11 | Now I know it was a great honour but I could see no way of accepting , so I put it on the mantelpiece and more or less prepared to forget all about it . |
| 12 | Clive Kemp 's suggestion that she join him on a cruise across the Mediterranean had seemed the perfect antidote to a long hard winter , a series of temping jobs which had been more demanding than usual , and the unpleasantness of her break-up with Giles . |
| 13 | She went with Breeze to call upon Mrs Rossitter , who was so charmed with her voice that she engaged her on the spot to read to her for two hours every day . |
| 14 | It 's also easy to care for as it can be hand or machine washed at 40°C , though we do recommend that you iron it on the reverse side while still damp . |
| 15 | If you use this method , make certain that you write them on the board before the talk and that your writing is legible . |
| 16 | LEFT Especially if you are not used to fitting a check chain , take care to ensure that you put it on the right way round . |
| 17 | That you showed me on the plan ? |
| 18 | ‘ So you told me on the phone . ’ |
| 19 | Right and he says the wider gap , so you write it on the order form , right , it 's part of the order form close |
| 20 | I would say in employment yes , or people that want to get employment example would be yeah at M D secretary suddenly shot into the job of producing the company newspaper now I mean somebody like very quickly has to get to grips with this obviously can not give up six months to go and do it so you do it on a half day release basis . |
| 21 | That we close everything on the on the phone . |
| 22 | The short answer is that we assert it on the basis of two things , an independent nomic conditional , and ( C ) a belief about certain conditions , which is a belief that the antecedent of the independent conditional is in a certain part true . |
| 23 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , whenever we make comparisons the figures that we quote are adjusted backwards to ensure that we quote them on a truly comparable basis in all instances . |
| 24 | ‘ We did not want the burden of administration falling on the taxpayer so we put it on the prime beneficiary , which is the farmer himself . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 26 | When you see it coming — remember that they do everything on the move — you jump on to the runner on the opposite side from the dog , take a deep breath and hope the runner wo n't kick it up . |
| 27 | I think that was a different boat to the one that they showed you on the telly . |
| 28 | His bulk , thin but long , was hard for them to get up their spiral stairs , so they left him on the sofa below , on the floor that lay over an ironmonger 's shop . |
| 29 | There was this girl in a bath of asses milk , yuk ! and it had all turned to cheese , so they put her on the table with a dish of figs for afters . |
| 30 | She had thoughtful parents , though , who thought the Grand Canyon was for real and so they put her on the waiting list . |