Example sentences of "[pron] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet here am I on a road that instead of tarmac looks like a patio laid in bricks — every one hand-placed in herringbone pattern . |
| 2 | Listening to this I on the whole thought that in a real sense he never really quite answered them , on the other hand he made every single person look silly . |
| 3 | I on the door . |
| 4 | He said I on the back at least . |
| 5 | Erm we mentioned already today about A P A P I on the desktop called erm Open Client . |
| 6 | Got the headphones so market could n't I on the baby stall ? |
| 7 | And I on the Friday . |
| 8 | As soon as we received the tree preservation order we rushed down to pi-n i-t on the tree . |
| 9 | You always got someone on a hack to help you . |
| 10 | ‘ We are looking for someone on a consultancy basis to advise on above and below-the-line campaigns , but there may be several arms to that , ’ McDevitt adds . |
| 11 | However problems can arise even for intelligent people with an extensive vocabulary , for example when they are communicating with someone on a subject other than their own speciality . |
| 12 | I try it for a bit — you know , pretending that I 'm all frozen , but someone on a bike comes down the path and I got to move to get out the way . |
| 13 | There is one great consolation , however , which is the fact that on a mountain nothing looks stupider than someone on a bike . |
| 14 | Right so , someone on a bike , you 've got a mate on a pushbike and you 're starting a race and you give him a shove . |
| 15 | Next , the next person receives a picture of a boy on a bike because the accident was a hit and run accident and they hit someone on a bike . |
| 16 | Because I du n no because it was you know if you get off with someone on a Saturday night yeah ? |
| 17 | As a customer , reading the label will help you decide whether to buy a product — that is , whether it suits your needs ( for example , someone on a diet might not want to buy a product containing a lot of sugar ) . |
| 18 | The levy is nine per cent of the personal taxation level , meaning that most tax-payers contribute between two and four per cent of their incomes to the church ( or about £1,000 a year for someone on a £30,000 salary ) . |
| 19 | Taken as a whole these measures would cost someone on a £30,000 a year salary about £825 of their after tax income . |
| 20 | To someone on a planet a long , long way off it would look just like an ordinary star . ’ |
| 21 | She argues that it often is still in the employers ' interest to recruit someone on a relative 's recommendation , since this gives employers more control over their workforce . |
| 22 | It may be a childish response , but when you have overtaken someone on a hill , it is very uncomfortable to be overtaken by them . |
| 23 | The time for someone on a star will be different from that for someone at a distance , because of the gravitational field of the star . |
| 24 | So if you got ta have someone on a skiing accident they 've got ta be helicopter lifted off you 'll end up with thousand , four hundred thousand |
| 25 | Someone on a boat out there was having a party , people singing and making more noise than the music they were playing . |
| 26 | These types of problem extend even to the more commonplace types of metalwork in which the lack of replication might lead to the suggestion that everyday items were produced locally as required ; but were such technical skills possessed by someone on every farm or hamlet , at only a few locations , or was the craftsman a mobile specialist ? |
| 27 | The organizer taps someone on the head and that child has to tiptoe round the circle while ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ tries to point to the person . |
| 28 | At two , your child does n't realise that if she bangs someone on the head with a spade , it hurts . |
| 29 | I tell you what we 'll do , we 'll try to find someone on the way who knows the counter-spell and send him back to wake the Gnomes up . ’ |
| 30 | Then we 'll have to tip someone on the floor . |