Example sentences of "[pron] on [noun sg] of the " in BNC.

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1 May I on behalf of the House offer our deepest sympathy to those who were injured and hope that they have a speedy recovery ?
2 Chairman before before you do finally er pack your bag and zoom off back to wherever it is you 're going , could I on behalf of the county council and all of our participants here today and those who 've been around in the last fortnight thank you and Miss Whittaker and your assistant able assistants er Mrs Binns and Dave in the programme office for the sterling work they 've done .
3 ‘ Did n't I offer to go after 'er on be'alf of the gent ?
4 As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him .
5 I would be grateful if you could look into the matter and send me the duplicate Agreement as soon as possible , as I have your copy of the tape ( VM on IBM at 1600 bpi ) ready to despatch to you on return of the documents .
6 ( Your cheque will be returned to you on receipt of the video within 7 days ) .
7 ‘ Cedric Downes , I arrest you on suspicion of the murder of Dr Theodore Kemp .
8 He had better luck when sending a cablegram to the American President who replied , ‘ The President deeply appreciates the friendly sentiment expressed by you on behalf of the influential body which you represent . ’
9 The second thing that I would like to recommend to you on behalf of the instrument ACTS is the Scottish christian gathering which will take place this year from Friday the twenty sixth of June to Sunday the twenty eighth of June at Saint Andrew 's College .
10 Anyway can I welcome you on behalf of the Notts County Council to the the Nottinghamshire pre-retirement .
11 But I want to begin this morning by thanking you on behalf of the group , because all of us owe the G M B an enormous debt of gratitude none more than myself .
12 Thank you on behalf of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group for the article that appeared about the Upington 26 Campaign ( Endpiece NI 210 ) .
13 We had it mounted and we 're proud and pleased to be able to present that to you on behalf of the G M B.
14 I do n't believe John , that that was the intent of the resolution , I 'm certain of that , that is the effect and I think in the interests of everybody , I 'd ask you on behalf of the C E C to withdraw that motion .
15 So with that er honourable guests , Vice Chairman , Councillors , ah I wish you on behalf of the Conservative Group , a happy full and successful year of o office .
16 I and my colleague thank you on behalf of the people in for this opportunity of presenting our case for acceptance of this petition .
17 I say to you on behalf of the centre , thank you Congress , thank you very much .
18 Those are the sort of questions that the radio interviewer is asking you on behalf of the , the great British public .
19 The full amount of your initial investment plus bonuses is guaranteed to be returned to you on completion of the five year term — and of course you could see a healthy return on your investment due to stock market growth during this time .
20 If a movie were to be made of her American tour , one would see pages fly from calendars , clock hands spin and headlines slapped one on top of the next .
21 The timber steps illustrated have been made from Forest mini sleepers , which look like logs , but have two flat faces allowing them to be placed one on top of the other .
22 Outside the hotel 's front doors were a pair of bent and twisted motor cars , one on top of the other .
23 Finally , someone once calculated that if the pillars and spires were stood one on top of the other they would be 5,300 metres high .
24 Or one on top of the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye urgently declaring , ‘ WARNING !
25 Fanny Kemble , the Victorian actress , thought that tourism had ruined Switzerland , that its hotels had become like gin palaces and that the effect of special tourist events amid the sublime scenery was very vulgar : ‘ … bread and butter , and pâté de foie gras , and marmalade and jam , and caviare , one on top of the other ’ .
26 A glass-fronted cabinet beyond housed more volumes arranged rather haphazardly , some on their edges but some stacked up lying flat one on top of the other .
27 This did n't happen during a single eruption , of course ; the individual flows average only ten metres thick , so many hundreds of individual flows are piled up one on top of the other , covering an area of about 130,000 square kilometres .
28 You have blue bits and you have yellow bits and it 's going to be much easier for you to put them together one on top of the other so you have a blue and yellow syllabus .
29 Inside the house the fire was burning and a couple of sticks of jharo , resting one on top of the other on the stone hearth , cast a stark and ambiguous light .
30 Having obtained your two pieces of wood , place them one on top of the other , ensuring that they are exactly square , and tape or clamp them securely together .
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