Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | This element is lacking in another group of cases , where nothing turns on any prior act of the potential defendant but rather on the delivery of the document to the official of the forum state or its publication at some prescribed place . |
| 2 | On another day we went to St. Anne 's where I played on the sands that were not a patch on those of the South Coast . |
| 3 | Anyway , back to Le Coq d'Or where I lay on the truckle bed and drifted off to sleep . |
| 4 | When I tired of writing press releases on new lube concepts I left Wartberg 's valve business to go to the Angstrom Corporation , where I worked on the launch of a new biscuit , the Pink Finger . |
| 5 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 6 | exactly where I stand on this ! |
| 7 | [ Christine Jardine spotted the following article in the magazine of Landsdowne Baptist Church , Bournemouth , where she went on holiday — it is used by permission ] |
| 8 | She managed to escape and ran to a lorry parked nearby where she banged on the door to attract the driver 's attention . |
| 9 | Her visitors in the Exeter nursing home where she died on 7th December saw all the qualities which made her such a servant of the trade continue unabated to the end — the common sense and humour , the courage , and the huge interest in others . |
| 10 | Madame de Lully 's principal residence continued to be the house on the rue St Anne , parish of St Roch , where she had resided with her husband , and where she died on 3 May 1720 . |
| 11 | She was taken to another hospital , where she died on October 8 last year . |
| 12 | Some Christian girls took her to live with them in a tiny flat where she slept on a sofa in the cramped living room . |
| 13 | The proof usually takes the form of quoting previous convictions , cautions and other relevant antecedent history to the court , where she denies on oath being a common prostitute . |
| 14 | Instead , she wandered into town , where she bought a bag of chips , well soused in vinegar and wrapped in newspaper ; she took the bag to her room , where she sat on the edge of the single bed , slowly eating chips in the dark and thinking . |
| 15 | And the angry princess , she , too , died where she sat on her horse ; a boghole opened at her feet and she sank into it . |
| 16 | But , pushing him aside , she gathered her cloak around her , made so bravely from those two old plush tablecloths , and began to walk downhill — the direction she happened to be facing — until she came to St Jude 's churchyard where she sat on a gravestone , her head in her hands , and shivered . |
| 17 | I grinned then , I recall , and brought the stunter down fast and acute across the weeds and the water , the sand and the surf , scudding it in across the wind to jerk and zoom just before it hit the girl herself where she sat on the dune top holding and spasmodically jerking the string she held in her hand , connected to the sky . |
| 18 | The galloping granny , from Bristol , used to run the 800 yards and 4 x 400 relay for the Imperial Tobacco company where she worked on the shop floor . |
| 19 | - You start forgetting where you went on holiday this summer . |
| 20 | ‘ You might own this place , Miguel , and you might have the right to stand where you like on it , but you 'll never make me pleased to see you ever again . |
| 21 | Include five-minute intense relaxation spots during both morning and afternoon , where you concentrate on relaxing muscles , slowing your breathing down and calming your mind . |
| 22 | You should both know exactly where you stand on all the major issues of planning , right from the start , so that mutually acceptable decisions can be made well ahead of time . |
| 23 | Where you travel on your day out of the ordinary is up to you . |
| 24 | Another area is that of foregrounding , where we draw on the terminology of traditional poetics ( " metaphor " , " metonymy " , onomatopoeia " , etc ) . |
| 25 | stales like wine where we loll on grass , |
| 26 | SIR — I have just returned with my family from Tignes , France , where we cheered on my son Graham Nugent and his fellow team members in the fifth Paralympics . |
| 27 | At one end of the town was a bank where we went on our first day to change some money . |
| 28 | I 'm convinced he drew me aside , away from Jeeta and Jamila , into the store-room , where we sat on wooden boxes like skiving factory workers , because he was ashamed , or at least bashful , about his unsweet victory . |
| 29 | When both parents are dead there is no one to talk with about those uncertain , early memories of people and places , or to confirm when it was we had measles , or where we stayed on holiday . |
| 30 | We wandered over Clare Bridge , which always looks as if it is about to collapse , and then up to St John 's , where we stood on the old Wren bridge and talked for some time , gazing at the so-called Bridge of Sighs which connects the old and new parts of St John 's . |