Example sentences of "on [art] [noun] or [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we got outside , I was n't sure whether to shut the door on the latch or leave it ajar for the nurse . |
| 2 | Some hospitals are already trying to make mealtimes more fun by having children 's favourites on the menu or giving them child-friendly utensils , but many hospitals lag behind . |
| 3 | She herself paints abstract designs on an L- or U-shaped canvas , and leaves them on the floor or wraps them round a pillar . |
| 4 | and they 're doing it again and again and again , it suits them , it suits the ones that are really rich to have ordinary people struggling like that and it suits them not to have that two hundred pounds a week going in to help those people and they 're the people who it suits who will decide whether that two hundred pounds a week goes to help on the mortgage or put them into what is it , a bed and , a bed and breakfast ? |
| 5 | No , watch it on the telly or playing it . |
| 6 | An ‘ undred years ago they would ‘ ave ‘ anged me on the spot or sent me off to Australia , so I ca n't complain . |
| 7 | The whole thing about a talk show is that you have to ask the questions that people are interested in — not in a way that puts the guest on the spot or makes them feel awkward — we 're not out to ‘ get ’ anyone , that 's not the idea of it at all — but certain things must be asked . |
| 8 | When you 're reading a speech ordinarily you have either to keep your finger on the spot or find it again . |
| 9 | I 'm never quite sure really to be honest whether these individuals had an interview with Jesus or Jesus had an interview with them , because whether they thought that Jesus or whether they thought they were doing the , the probing and the questioning really it was Jesus who was in charge of the interview , you may of watched er certain chat shows on the , on the television or heard them on the radio and er depending who the person being interviewed is , very often it actually changes , and its the interviewer who really is being put through it , its the , its the person who 's being interviewed is in charge of the situation and that was the case here Jesus . |
| 10 | Do you do anything special on a Sunday or do you eat the same kind of things as you eat a normal day ? |