Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had my heart set on a soft-top — preferably a Corvette or a Mustang — and I was n't going to let a spot of bracing weather stand in my way . |
| 2 | But I had my heart set on training a bird . |
| 3 | But it was there when my heart softened on witnessing the courtesy you showed my housekeeper , the smile you had for her ; there when I asked you to dinner with no certainty why I 'd done so , other than that it most assuredly was n't on account of any interview . |
| 4 | Quintin Hailsham told me later : ‘ When I first read the report my hair stood on end , and at my age that takes some doing . ’ |
| 5 | You do n't know it , but my hair stood on end when you spoke of the future as you did . |
| 6 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 7 | The young doctor in charge of my case insisted on telling my GP and wrote to him , but the letter was later withdrawn and suppressed by his superior at my request . |
| 8 | It 's the price I have to pay for my job , I 'm very attentive towards my health because my income depends on it . |
| 9 | I selected this as the top side and mounted a 3½in faceplate ring to fit my collet chuck on it . |
| 10 | My foot went on the |
| 11 | Such is the power of suggestion that that night as I neared the top of the staircase , my foot stumbled on the last step but one . |
| 12 | They were having an intense and appropriately heated discussion on the problems of cold-spots ( as evinced by the fact that their first attempts came out looking like braille roundels ) , and on the unfortunate instability of three poppadoms balanced together — caused not so much by the jerk they received when the turntable started up as by their movements while they cooked and swelled — but eventually my flatmates settled on the concept of standing the things up individually on the glass turntable , and so instigated what they termed a ‘ brainstorming session ’ in an attempt to find a suitable support mechanism . |
| 13 | As I try to sleep , my mattress raised on corrugated iron sheeting to discourage the rats from running over me , I hear a familiar sound : click-click , click-click , click-click . |
| 14 | I left my cases parked on the quay , and made my way into the post office . |
| 15 | My mum goes on a Sunday ? |
| 16 | … I had done this process before , once , but not under pressure , when Aunt Viv had set a combination on a new suitcase and then forgotten it … one-four-eight , one-four-nine … my face sweating , my fingers slipping on the tiny wheels from haste … one-five-zero , one-five-one … |
| 17 | She let my fingers rest on the cool skin of her check ; but something in her now steady look , a declaration of inaccessibility , made me take my hand away . |
| 18 | ‘ I could n't close my fingers to pull on the water after an hour . ’ |
| 19 | The fishhouse ( an early dream ) went up in 1977 , and most of my pennies went on the building , so that staging was designed around a 48″ tank size . |
| 20 | ‘ No , there 's just something about this place that 's making my hairs stand on end . |
| 21 | My hairs stand on end . |
| 22 | What I w what I will say to my honourable , my right honourable friend is that er when I recently visited the United States I did find that the , on which our training and enterprise councils have been based , have provided a very valuable experience for us in learning the lessons that he had indicated of ensuring that the private sector is fully involved in decisions over training and I believe that the figure I gave to my honourable friend early today , combined with over two billion that my department spends on training , forms a very effective public private sector partnership . |
| 23 | as my mind insisted on words |
| 24 | My mind blanked on alternate minutes , my heartbangs sounded like the 4.30 at Epsom , and my mouth felt like cat-litter . |
| 25 | Irina talked , Bill dozed , my mind went on automatic pilot . |
| 26 | My mind raced on how the game might proceed . |
| 27 | Reverting to my analogy of the fire brigade , either my brigade went on strike over all those pork pies and rich , creamy cakes I used to eat , or they had the wrong directions . |
| 28 | I am thinking about my spectacles lying on the desk before me as I write . |
| 29 | Colleagues , it 's my pleasure to welcome on your behalf , Abdul . |
| 30 | Now , it 's now my pleasure to welcome on your behalf Chris the Secretary of Portsmouth Trades Council . |