Example sentences of "on a [noun] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They each fall utterly under his spell and promise to obey him in everything , whereupon he tells them that he has to go on a journey and gives them the keys of his magnificent house but forbids them to enter a room which is opened by a particular little key . |
| 2 | Le Tissier went on a run that took him ghosting past two defenders only for Baker to save . |
| 3 | In fact , there have been many discussions caused by Johnny — and his girlfriend who seems to do very little other than build up her tan on a beach and send him the odd letter in a bottle . |
| 4 | If the hon. Member for Leicester , South ( Mr. Marshall ) would like to accompany me in the new year , I should be only too happy to take him on a tour and show him just how much is happening outside Belfast as well as in it . |
| 5 | Already I 've heard aghast whispers about the details of the Milwaukee cannibal : ‘ Do you know , ’ they hiss in your ear , ‘ he cut out one chap 's bicep , fried it on a griddle and ate it for his breakfast ? ’ |
| 6 | A fat white cat sat on a wall and watched them with sleepy eyes . |
| 7 | One of the females put the last tray on a trolley and wheeled it past Masklin . |
| 8 | Developed by Kodak and Philips , Photo CD allows users to store up to 100 high quality photographic images on a CD and watch them on a TV set or computer screen . |
| 9 | Option 3.8.0 — Force User To Accept SPR , allows users with SPR SSR CONTROLLER privilege to force an SPR on a user and prevent it being passed on further . |
| 10 | With your long-term goal in mind , select a race on a date that allows you time to prepare thoroughly . |
| 11 | The Department of Transport , which held the inquiry last year gave no reason for the delay on a decision and says it ca n't say when it 'll make one . |
| 12 | ‘ A young man came along on a bicycle and asked me if he could help but I refused his offer . |
| 13 | And when he would arrive from Barnard Castle with a heavy load of shopping on a bicycle and give me a nice round bun he would buy as a special treat from a shop called Guy 's . |
| 14 | If he could have talked to her in Italian it would have been different , but his correct English , which he had learned from his mother who had had an English governess , and which he only ever spoke with her friends or on a case that required it , was of no use to him now . |
| 15 | I 'd slave my guts out on a case and think I 'd got it settled and a week later the woman would turn up in my office with the same dreary tale . |
| 16 | Mr Duckett says : ‘ However poor the local infrastructure , with VSAT you can lay in the communications by literally packaging up the dish , putting it on a lorry and sending it to the site . |
| 17 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 18 | Richard sat on a bed and watched her for several dances before claiming her again . |
| 19 | When she stepped on a stick and snapped it , the sudden noise caused a rook to rise from its nest with a startled beating of wings . |
| 20 | A person who has parked his car on a road and left it unattended ca n't be said to be the driver of this offence . |
| 21 | Carried beneath it will be sophisticated instruments gathering information on a subject that absorbs us all — the weather . |
| 22 | Mr. Mendez wanted to put him on a coach and send him down there in style , but Russell kept backing off . |
| 23 | Two , two or three week 's running Jenny came up on a weekend and brought us a bar of chocolate each |
| 24 | He said local management of schools — where schools had total control of their budget — was like putting a Rolls-Royce badge on a Skoda and expecting it to go better . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ One ca n't imagine a feebler way of making a protest or trying to gain by showing A Clockwork Orange … at four o'clock in the afternoon at the Scala cinema on a weekday and advertising it as a surprise item . ’ |
| 26 | If you use a stick-microphone , support it on a stand and position it as close as possible while allowing enough room for you to handle the script without rustling noises getting onto the recording . |
| 27 | Do you do anything special on a Sunday or do you eat the same kind of things as you eat a normal day ? |
| 28 | He fitted on a plug and tried it out in his room , closing the curtains . |
| 29 | As last year , they will bring the skip on a Tuesday and remove it a week later . |
| 30 | ‘ Holiday acted like a raging bull , picking up a chair , smashing it on a table and throwing it at bottles behind the bar , ’ he said . |