Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , in a much more , erm , a le a less severe example , but we 're having a Road Safety Week , at school , this week , erm , and it was my class 's turn , yesterday afternoon , so I was just there keeping a watching brief with my my children while the , road safety representative was talking to them , and she put them us through the usual hoops of erm , did any of them play on the roadside un unattended . |
| 2 | After excluding children for whom data on the continuous variables were missing 5573 ( 63.3% ) were available for analysis of respiratory illness by birth weight and duration of pregnancy . |
| 3 | A rapid gear change gave them speed on the corner and he sat bent over the wheel , concentrating fiercely on the road through the sheets of rain . |
| 4 | He tried to steal my strip on the Island ? ’ |
| 5 | And since the frozen peas and firm bandaging were applied by the fair hands of a comely maiden , I began to think that perhaps I could reasonably update my views on the ankle , Eros-wise . |
| 6 | I was asked my views on the reshuffle . |
| 7 | I was also asked my views on the chairmanship of the party . |
| 8 | The Express , by contrast , detects unsheathed Conservative blades : ‘ Tory knives were out for the BBC … the Prime Minister is said to have told friends : ‘ my views on the BBC 's coverage are not printable . ’ |
| 9 | And stop worrying , I wo n't reveal my views on the drug to the twins . |
| 10 | I have been asked to give my views on the most important events and changes in the ‘ domain of art and artistic culture ’ over the last ten years , which I have agreed to do , as much out of friendship for the Giornale dell'Arte ( and its editor ) as out of vanity ( let's be honest ) . |
| 11 | I did , however , express my views on the construction and effect of the section which , it now appears , were at variance with the views of academic and other writers : see ‘ The Judge and the Competent Minor ’ by Andrew Bainham ( 1992 ) 108 L.Q.R. 194 , 198 ; ‘ Multiple Keyholders — Wardship and Consent to Medical Treatment ’ by Rosy Thornton [ 1992 ] C.L.J. 34 , 36 ; Doctors , Patients and the Law , ( 1992 ) , at pp. 60–61 ( Ian Kennedy ) , at p. 76 ( Lawrence Gostin ) and at pp. 156–157 ( Ian Dodds-Smith ) and Margaret Brazier , Medicine , Patients and the Law , 2nd ed. ( 1992 ) , p. 345 . |
| 12 | On the way home through Canada I wrote the first few chapters of a book about my views on the tour . |
| 13 | In a sane world , I thought , we would have discussed the state of my feelings , debated whether I loved Syl sufficiently to commit the rest of my life to him , questioned my views on the institution of marriage , examined my mother 's motives in striving to introduce me into this state , have said something of some interest . |
| 14 | Thank you for inviting my views on the above consultation document . |
| 15 | You have a love bite on your neck , yet you go on asking me for my views on the multicultural society , on secularism , on Darcian Monetarism . |
| 16 | The experience of coming from the north-east of England is an important influence on my views on the issue with which we are dealing this morning . |
| 17 | I think you will recall Mr my my views on the East Grinstead by-pass were not the same as those |
| 18 | Therefore , it is against that back-cloth , that I respond to these orchestrated criticisms and express my views on the man I have come to know as a friend and a very good colleague . |
| 19 | I simply say that on the debates we 've had on the Policing Bill , I 've learnt what the functions of your Noble House is all about and the speech that 's just been made from across the Chamber from me , sums up entirely my views on the matter , and I say to your Lordships House that on the basis of experience as Northern Ireland Secretary when one is a Home Secretary for a province and there 's a number of people in this House who 've had a job to do including the Noble Lord , The Noble Viscount Whitelaw who set the tone of the way we all proceeded , I accept that , the one of the things we had to do there was bring democracy back to policing and the primary force of policing is taking a long time to do and that here as Home Secretary , everything I learned there was , stop the growing centralisation and the weakening of the police authorities and police force and this Bill does exactly that But now one of the questions I 've asked myself and it 's the only point because all the points have been made that I really want to ask the Government is what are these appointees for ? |
| 20 | He was the heartbeat of the team in 1966 … my lieutenant on the field , a cool , calculated footballer I could trust with my life . ’ |
| 21 | My debut on the bestseller list should happen any day now . |
| 22 | Should anyone remain unconvinced , I rest my case on the Leaning Tower of Pisa syndrome . |
| 23 | I imagined the whole business of running to the wire , and setting up the ladder a thousand times , but I could never get beyond the point when I set my foot on the bottom rung . |
| 24 | I coughed loudly and scraped my foot on the floor to draw their attention to who was standing quietly listening to them rowing . |
| 25 | I eased my foot on the accelerator , watching for each hole in the road that stretched ahead endlessly , a straight , straight line across a desolate land to the reddish horizon . |
| 26 | With every nerve on edge and my heart pumping I put my foot on the first stair . |
| 27 | Did n't get u , dismount I just sat on the saddle like with my foot on the floor wandering what they was up to . |
| 28 | So he s , I said to him is it alright , says am I in danger of coasting if I 've got my foot on the if , if I 'm taking the corner in first and I 'm slipping and I got the clutch , I 'm using the engine but I 've , not much |
| 29 | If there was a black kid and a white kid with equal qualifications who both went for the same job , I would have to put my money on the white kid getting the job , because we 're in a white-dominated society . |
| 30 | She said fucking machine out there not paying me out and your cancel my money on the fucking card am I supposed to eat today ? |