Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 2 | LAST Tuesday I mused on the problems the Queen was facing with her family . |
| 3 | Giving evidence , Capt von Humbracht said that he picked up the uniform , hat and sword belonging to Napoleon which lay on the ground . |
| 4 | For a moment on Saturday it looked on the cards that the same word might forever snap the players of Torquay United the other way . |
| 5 | Lindsey sleeps in Richard 's bed and Richard he sleeps on the settee . |
| 6 | Black will take it swinging it in flicked on by Rozario and the goalkeeper made up for er what might have been an error a moment or two ago by coming bravely in with Pearce right in front of him and Rozario I mean on the flick . |
| 7 | Sir Monty himself appeared on the panel at the end of the programme , expressing his opinion that the status of engineers was an intrinsic part of the problem . |
| 8 | It equally informs us that as one of the results of his ‘ innovative ’ study ‘ Gale also shows us a Darwin who relied on the help of other scholars for much of his work on species . |
| 9 | If you ask somebody what 's the explanation for a fact you may have noticed if you walked down the Strand here just from the School , if you 're observant , I 'm sure you 've , you 've all instantly noticed as you walked by , that Strand Street , which is a short street that , sorry , I 'm , Savoy Street , which is a short street that leads off the Strand into the Savoy Hotel , is an exception to the rule , that in England you drive on the left , because in Stra in Savoy Street , you drive on the right . |
| 10 | With the Maccabees we feel on the threshold of a new epoch , the end of tolerance and the beginning of persecution , and naturally we want to know both what brought about this change and how the protagonists saw the events in which they played a part . |
| 11 | March and February we spent on the Brenner , where we lodged at three different farmsteads . |
| 12 | ‘ The first question they asked , ’ reported a voluntary worker , ‘ was , ‘ May we go on the grass ? ’ . |
| 13 | In England we concentrate on the voice . |
| 14 | Suddenly , on 10 July , the Allies invaded Sicily , and on 26 July we heard on the radio the astonishing news that Mussolini had been deposed and arrested and that the King had invited General Badoglio to form a new government . |
| 15 | In Spain we drive on the other side . ’ |
| 16 | Steve Whitton , who played the final 18 minutes in Saturday 's FA Premier League 4–3 defeat at Southampton , is named together with defender Eddie Youds who stayed on the subs bench . |
| 17 | But I called a pal of mine in St Helier who works on the local rag and he reckons your man 's at home . ’ |
| 18 | But he did like the young woman , a hoyden from Somerville who gambled on the horses and was always broke . |
| 19 | Esther Rantzen for the B B C and Cilla Black I think on the A T V. |
| 20 | There is a passage in Mr Palomar which plays on the dialectic between speech ( or communicative language ) and silence and which might be taken to foreshadow the structure of the book as a whole . |
| 21 | He looked at Lady Horne who sat on the other side of the fireplace , an ivory and pearl rosary entwined around her fingers . |
| 22 | That , that 's a rational law , okay , it 's nothing to do with a taboo , there 's not some strange supernatural principle which says , in Savoy Street you drive on the other side , and if you do n't you 'll be struck down with a fever or ill luck or something like that . |
| 23 | This was not a common experience , however ; indeed , shortly afterwards Courtaulds itself embarked on the takeover trail . |
| 24 | Georgia a post graduate business student is the daughter of crown court recorder Peter Griffiths who sits on the Wales and Chester circuit . |
| 25 | While at Cambridge he worked on the problem of the stability of Saturn 's rings . |
| 26 | They nodded to Maggie Jones and Ida Bromsgrove who were chatting together on the doorstep , and to Grace Crossley , the landlady of the Kings Arms which stood on the corner of Page Street . |
| 27 | His red , blotchy face turned to Joseph who lay on the ground nearby , then to Carter and finally to Ralph again . |
| 28 | Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September . |
| 29 | The local authority associations have also expressed concern at the likely impact of the Tunnel on peripheral regions , and a conference was held in the early Summer of 1989 to launch a Channel Tunnel initiative with the aim of ensuring that its benefits reach all parts of the UK. it focuses on the role of local authorities in attracting new businesses by providing the right infrastructure including good access to international rail passenger services at regional railheads , and effective freight transhipment points linked to the road network . |
| 30 | Refusing all but the most exceptional interview , Auerbach himself insists on the autonomy of the work . |