Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 2 | It is claimed that after decay of the soft tissues , small mammal bone does not survive exposure for long on the ground , becoming soft and disintegrating within one year ( Voorhies , 1969 ) . |
| 3 | For although the two stood with their heads for once on a level pegging , the size of their shadows differed to no small degree . |
| 4 | Two further examples may show the effect of Ultra on the conduct of the war : the sinking of the Bismarck on 27 May 1941 ; and that critical moment in the Western Desert in August 1942 when Montgomery , through Ultra , was able to predict the direction and strength of Rommel 's attack at Alam Halfa , where the Axis failure prepared the ground for the British success at El Alamein in the autumn . |
| 5 | and she said no she 'd been to pay her poll tax over there , she said she 'd had a rest in one of the shops over there on the way |
| 6 | It comes under the hammer at 2.15pm on the 20th , at the Barnstaple Motel . |
| 7 | And I remember the family story of how on the eve of my grandmother 's wedding day her elder brother Ted had been locked out by her father and had broken a window to get in . |
| 8 | Er trading standards continue to be under pressure er we ought to agree on that er and we I I believe we may not have difficulty er in achieving the additional value of this type of almost on an annual basis if we are short of the trading standards . |
| 9 | That they never bore fruit was due as much to Bolshevik neglect of them as to the eventual insistence from above on the abolition of the private farms . |
| 10 | They actually said then that they contr that they had an influence on how on the cost and where they bought it from . |
| 11 | After the failure of The Family Reunion his first instinct was to start work at once on a new play which would avoid the failures of the earlier one . |
| 12 | This ability to inflict several wounds at once on a large target does , however , make the mortar extremely useful against big monsters . |
| 13 | The coordinating of the various world pick-ups did try the patience of all concerned and the long waits at 5am on a chilly Christmas morning were no laughing matter . |
| 14 | most of us had eaten our lunch by then on the coach because we were so hungry , after all it had been seven hours since we had last eaten . |
| 15 | I 'm wondering whether it was erm one ti er we , we walked up a hill and the the erm sculpture was sort of up on a hill . |
| 16 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 17 | and the final year I think there 's sort of less on the timetable but people tend to do more work for it and do a project as well but in the , in the first year erm you know it 's not that difficult to , to pass it erm er and there are always the , the , the referred papers in September so if you 're , if you 're keen |
| 18 | PC-Xview for NT enables personal computer users to display X-Window applications from anywhere on the network alongside local NT ones . |
| 19 | Langbaurgh 's mountain bike series concludes in Guisborough Woods on tomorrow with registration from 8.30am on the day . |
| 20 | With DNAaseI ( Fig. 2 ) , one observes a better protection of the hinge region between the two proteins ( phosphodiester bonds at -46.5 on the upper strand and at -49.5 on the template strand are almost insensitive to DNAaseI attack ) , and a more extended footprint in the upstream part of the CRP site at least on the upper strand , with the protection of phosphates at -81.5 , -82.5 and the appearance of two hypersensitive bands at -84.5 and -85.5 ( Fig. 2a , lane 2 ) . |
| 21 | Eleanor Thorne moved her head about uneasily on the pillow for a moment or two , wishing she had not complained about the soap , for now Alida might change the brand , keep that tablet to herself , And if it did not lather well , it had such a distinctive scent , a scent Eleanor liked . |
| 22 | Well that was kept by fella called and they could get the beer off-licence , although it was n't , it was n't so far to the Old Naked Inn and then there was a pub on the corner of , I ca n't remember the name of that because they 've opened it too young to remember pubs in them days but er , apart from the off-licence there was no actual public inn on Street , there was off-licence , as I say just a few yards down was the Old Naked Inn and there was a pub on the top of just on the side of . |
| 23 | He gets obsessed by things like greenfly on the roses . ’ |
| 24 | What 's those things over there on the wall , some of those are alright are n't they ? |
| 25 | It 's lined up with that lamp over there on the other wall , ’ said Dick . |
| 26 | Could this scene be acted out every day at 4.45pm on the road out of Pinjarra ? |
| 27 | Anyone interested should call at the station at 7pm on a Thursday evening when an officer will be available with more information . |
| 28 | There was a continuing round of meetings , but no serious approach to a formula of settlement until late on the following Saturday night . |
| 29 | Apart from the Harris 's hawks , we did n't get a chance to pick up any more birds until late on the second day . |
| 30 | But they spen they spend a lot of money on , on lights and they , I mean they they spend they spend about seven hours in here on a Friday just doing the lights and special effects and |