Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without even knowing it , we may make assumptions about them based on the fact that they 're called Charles rather than Kevin . |
| 2 | My mother was absolutely marvellous about me going on the stage . |
| 3 | The world of nature was for them constructed on a mathematical plan , things were generated from numbers an idea to whose mystical overtones Aristotle objected . |
| 4 | He did not bother to look up when Corbett and Ranulf were ushered in but made a gesture for them to sit on the bench alongside the table while he continued noisily with his meal . |
| 5 | You see , Great-Aunt Jane was a skilled dressmaker and made clothes for quite a number of young ladies in Baldersdale , and it was usual for them to try on the new clothes and have the final fittings in the kitchen . |
| 6 | Playing against Celtic , however , is generally supposed to be difficult for someone who formerly captained the club and could not say that his regard for them ended on the day he was transferred . |
| 7 | The general postulates of each theory have , however , much in common : the contrasts between them depend on the phylogenetic features brought to the varying ecological conditions of life in which the animals live . |
| 8 | Mrs Reed arranged for me to leave on the nineteenth of January . |
| 9 | He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’ |
| 10 | The idea was for me to go on the high-wire sixty feet above ground — on the shoulders of a Czechoslovakian circus performer . |
| 11 | We are currently in discussion with the TECs about their budget and I do not think that it would be appropriate for me to comment on the particular circumstances of my hon. Friend 's local TEC . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , in the absence of all the facts , it is not possible for me to comment on the individual case , nor would I wish to do so in a public forum . |
| 13 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 14 | Er I do a plug the alb of the album Midnight Postcards we call it , I 'm plugging that now until Christmas , promoting that er on television and radio , and I er in between I go on a short holiday to Africa and then January I start Alfie until May , and then I think I 'm gon na do a T V movie or a movie in June July , and then in end of July I go to America for four four till the end of November with Alfie . |
| 15 | Also taking part in the programme were Flossie and Bill Jarvis , giving their memories of journeys on the railway and the Rev. Ray Arnold , who lives in the former Horderley station bungalow , told about his finds on the site . |
| 16 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 17 | Begonias are particular favourites and a gaggle of them gather on the paved area near the front door resplendent in pink , scarlet and yellow . |
| 18 | There was one of them caressing on the beach at Crystal Springs , and another of the glamorous couple wrapped around each other in the crystal-clear water of the hotel beach . |
| 19 | One of them remarked on the scent . ’ |
| 20 | However , according to eye-witnesses , at about 6am soldiers ordered the workers from the outbuilding where they lived , forced some of them to kneel on the ground and then shot them . |
| 21 | Very few women took part in training , which was surprising when one considers how important a part many of them played on the farm . |
| 22 | In the 138-member Chamber of Citizens ( 108 seats for Serbian representatives , half of them elected on a majority system by constituencies and half on a proportional system by party lists , plus 30 for Montenegrin representatives , six by constituency and 24 proportionally ) the Socialist Party of Serbia ( SPS ) gained 73 seats ; Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro 23 ; Serbian Radical Party ( SRS ) 33 ; League of Communists-Movement for Yugoslavia two ; Democratic Community of Vojvodina Magyars ( DZVM ) two ; independents three ; two seats for Serbia went to a second round of voting , held on June 14 ( together with two second-round polls for the republican assembly ) . |
| 23 | Outside the months of breeding all but a few species disappear to wintering grounds well south of the Arctic Circle ; thus the arctic has over 150 species of breeding land birds , but only eight of them reside on the tundra all the year round . |
| 24 | Stranded in the middle of a threatening black neighbourhood , he is rescued by a tow-truck driver , Danny Glover , and the two of them embark on a tentative , rather sweet black-white buddy relationship . |
| 25 | The dreams contained a series of fighting manoeuvres , all of them based on a complete yielding to attack . |
| 26 | This book established Kitto as a writer , and in the following years , he wrote a number of books — many of them based on the Scripture , including the work which is still regarded as the best of its kind , Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature . |
| 27 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 28 | It is interesting to note that , although Sylvia was able to recall the events of that fateful afternoon and to describe in great detail the sights , sounds and emotions which prevailed , she had no idea at all of how long the two of them lay on the ground before her mother regained consciousness . |
| 29 | The strength , durability and weight of them depends on the weight of fabric used and how much coating has been applied . |
| 30 | It was at a dinner party in the flat , when they were in the kitchen together fetching yogurt and raspberries , that I heard for the first time one of them turn on the other in anger . |