Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | WORMS stopped play in the Wiltshire tennis championships after heavy rain drove scores of them on to the Marlborough courts . |
| 2 | ‘ I just needed to see you ! ’ she said with a brittle smile , walking past him on to the hot beach , feeling the tears burn her eyes . |
| 3 | Because Granby House was a listed building , the contractor eventually became exempt from this tax , but as he could not reclaim any VAT he had already paid to suppliers , he had to pass most of it on to the developer . |
| 4 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |
| 5 | Both men stood aside to let a big dark-green Jaguar edge carefully round them on to the forecourt of the house immediately to the left of where the BMW was parked . |
| 6 | Its tension caught the reader , there was an emotion in it , shared between him and them and it turned all his attention away from himself on to the subject matter he was speaking . |
| 7 | One of the glasses had fallen on to its side and a red stain had spread from it on to the tablecloth . |
| 8 | He turns off the engine , comes out of his car , walks round it on to the pavement , then tells us to turn and face the wall . |
| 9 | Brookhead Smith loaded the cabinet with the gramophone inside it on to the back of his cart , then he looked around the shed to see if there were any more records lying about . |
| 10 | I held the door for him on to the street . |
| 11 | I 'm not going to do it cos it 's full of of jugs and then it tips back on itself on to the on to the flat side . |
| 12 | The Commission criticized the government for delaying action on household waste management by passing responsibility for it on to the Environment Agency , which has not yet been set up . |
| 13 | Erm , well it 's just a seminar about planning at the moment , I shall get further information about it on nearer the time , erm , a change in who would pay our , or get our VAT repayment claim from , does n't change an address basically , and er a request from Sam Stewart , whose erm a Counc , er a County Councillor , er something which I really ca n't actually erm help him with , he wants to know the whole of our Parish Council meetings date for nineteen ninety four , but I mean this is something we fix as we go along , so I really do n't think that I can help him by that , and I 'm sending him that , erm |
| 14 | The Bugis step their masts directly on to the deck rather than through it on to the hull floor beneath . |