Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] on the " in BNC.

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1 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 ) .
2 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 .
3 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
4 It comes under the hammer at 2.15pm on the 20th , at the Barnstaple Motel .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 They actually said then that they contr that they had an influence on how on the cost and where they bought it from .
8 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 .
9 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 ?
10 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
11 PC-Xview for NT enables personal computer users to display X-Window applications from anywhere on the network alongside local NT ones .
12 Langbaurgh 's mountain bike series concludes in Guisborough Woods on tomorrow with registration from 8.30am on the day .
13 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 ) .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 He gets obsessed by things like greenfly on the roses . ’
17 What 's those things over there on the wall , some of those are alright are n't they ?
18 It 's lined up with that lamp over there on the other wall , ’ said Dick .
19 Could this scene be acted out every day at 4.45pm on the road out of Pinjarra ?
20 There was a continuing round of meetings , but no serious approach to a formula of settlement until late on the following Saturday night .
21 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 .
22 The last few days passed horrendously quickly — except for the bus ride down to Delhi at 3am on the last day of March .
23 were were saying that he was only God from his baptism to Not on the cross , before the cross .
24 Now you 're moving to Bilborough , you 're moving to Bilborough erm just say in five years time they got rid of the flats erm and they built houses on here on the site , would you move back ?
25 On any screen , any user can call up multiple applications , combine and manipulate text , data or graphics from anywhere on the network .
26 Meetings of the circle are held at 8.15pm , preceded by Mass at 7.30pm on the first Wednesday of the month , at Loreto Convent Grammar School , Dunham Road , Altrincham .
27 About ten miles east of here on the coast .
28 His strength of character was invaluable in dealing with the guards and his commitment to his fellow hostages was such that he would listen quietly and matter of factly on the occasions when we all had a heart-to-heart about the little ways in which we got on each others ' nerves .
29 The last communication had been a letter from somewhere on the west coast of America , and my eventual reply had been returned ‘ not known at this address ’ .
30 As the day of ‘ our final hour ’ approached our publicity releases continued to whip up public opinion , and I carefully planned the last programme for broadcast from 9pm on the last evening until the station 's license expired with the stroke of midnight .
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