Example sentences of "[noun pl] with [noun] on " in BNC.

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1 Do I have to wear one of them velvet caps with knobs on ? ’
2 It has several pairs of jointed legs with pincers on the end and behind these , plate-like gills , large and flat like the leaves of a book .
3 ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 )
4 Third , in all the campaign reports , it is assumed that canvassers do not have the time to discuss politics or local or personal grievances with voters on the doorstep during an election campaign .
5 Exactly what the sea anemone gains from this relationship is not known , but crabs with anemones on their shells are known to be much less vulnerable to attack by octopuses .
6 The Attic bi-lingual eye cup attributed to Epiktetos ( dated circa 520–510 BC , lot 9 , est. £60,000–90,000 ) is , like many eye cups , painted in contrasting styles with red-figure on the outside and black-figure on the inside .
7 Clerks are also expected to assist unrepresented parties with advice on the procedure adopted in the tribunals .
8 In July 63 , the first of many substantial orders was placed by Pan Am , in this case for forty units with options on a further 120 .
9 Cars with lights on the top are bad news , ’ said Grimma .
10 I 'll have words with Sharon on Monday and er , oh I ca n't , yes I can on Monday I 'm having my hair cut later , but I can come up about nine o'clock and see if she 's here .
11 On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew .
12 By December 1917 Madame Weill had moved from her tiny shop on the Rue Victor-Masse , where she pinned up her pictures with clothes-pegs on an overhead wire like washing , to a more imposing venue , Galerie B. Weill , 50 Rue Taitbout in the 9th arrondissement .
13 The republic took control of its borders with Albania on Feb. 6 , and recalled ambassadors and other diplomats of Macedonia origin in the Yugoslav foreign service .
14 and I said you 'll have to fit it together again and she said I ca n't they were all identical squares with squiggles on oh what a
15 Do you want use the ones that make the , use dominoes with pictures on it ?
16 They mainly showed dragons — dragons by the hundred , in flight or hanging from their perch rings , dragons with men on their backs hunting down deer and , sometimes , other men .
17 We were told by English boys that reception classes were ‘ like Junior schools with pictures on the walls ’ and that the work done in them was not really serious .
18 George Ball , for instance , had two tough and vital sessions with Wilson on 8 – 9 September 1965 , during which he battled for agreement to link American defence of the pound with Britain 's maintenance of her overseas commitments .
19 Turtles , programmed by youngsters to move around the floor and describe shapes with pens on their under-bellies , are the means to that end .
20 spri spring , er two springs at the bottom and just a flat bar and it has four keys with springs on the top and like , you just go
21 There are extra Shift keys and a number of keys with arrows on them ( but there are no Shift-Lock keys to produce upper case letters and symbols ) .
22 The way of working therefore should be to negotiate long term visitors with regions on the present ‘ bidding ’ system as this gave enough space to work through the Coordinators with the opportunity of a regional strategy for using the visitor .
23 In the ninth century , one poet praised its beauty , while another drowned in it ; salt-traders and vintners plied it as a matter of routine ; nobles and religious communities with estates on both sides of it had boats ready for regular crossings and landing-stages where their men could send off surplus produce for sale and unload imports for their masters ' consumption ; Vikings contemplated arduous upstream journeys , but quick getaways ; Charles the Bald , worried over strategic problems , planned the river 's blocking , and policing , and also exploited the symbolic possibilities of meetings at Orléans , Fleury , Cosne , Meung , Pouilly to which nobles must come from Aquitaine by crossing the river while Charles himself received his visitors on the Frankish side .
24 Community Mothers are experienced mothers who are recruited in the areas and trained to give support and encouragement to parents of first babies in their own local communities with emphasis on child-rearing , health care , nutritional improvement and overall development .
25 Much of the play is standard Restoration fare — two virtually interchangeable gallants with designs on the fair Miranda and the fair Clarinda ; a rich old curmudgeon ; a booby with romantic pretensions called Sir Samuel Hearty ; a would-be orator called Sir Formal Trifle ; manifold marital deceptions .
26 She bought scarlet jeans and loud shirts , shoes with rainbows on the toe .
27 With the film 's release , the same gay groups have been picketing cinemas in the US , accusing Hollywood of promoting negative gay stereotypes , and confronting prospective filmgoers with placards on which they — aaagh ! — reveal the identity of the murderer .
28 Engineers with goggles on their headsets and drones hovering at their heels .
29 Mr Kerr said the TEC 's private sector board members fell into two categories : some were senior employees of industrial companies with bases on Teesside , while others were effectively owner-managers with large equity stakes in their companies .
30 In eight out of ten catchments the report 's authors calculated that the immediate cost of water treatment or blending was less than the ‘ local cost ’ of farming measures , but , once Exchequer savings from reduced agricultural production were included ( i.e. savings in public grants and subsidies paid to farmers to produce crops ) , in most cases it was cheaper to establish protection zones with curbs on farming than to treat the polluted water .
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