Example sentences of "on [noun] but [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I 'm sorry , seven thousand five hundred and fifty five on budget but they were down . |
| 2 | As the crew neared the still floating aircraft they spotted the pilot nearby , they approached him to bring him on board but he pulled a pistol out and was about to fire when the coxswain shot him . |
| 3 | Nicola I I mean I I totally take your story on board but you are a nurse |
| 4 | He had seldom been to the village and only once on foot but he could remember the layout of it with surprising clarity . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ Everyone appears to agree it is more sensible to keep this traffic on rail but it has taken the efforts of hundreds of people to get a six-month reprieve . |
| 6 | She gave the young MacGregor a book on Parliament but he did not read it at the time , and he can not trace his decision to go into politics back to that . |
| 7 | If he dies , she 'll put on mourning but she wo n't cry . ’ |
| 8 | We have received so many wonderful letters on Tailwaggers but I 'm afraid we have n't room to print them all here . |
| 9 | I thought coming forward Leeds played brill on saturday but they still looked a bit lazy and complacent at the back ( esp . |
| 10 | It 's going to be tough on Saturday but she wo n't mind the rain which might frighten one or two away . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm sorry about being in a mood on Saturday but I was n't really in a mood with you . |
| 12 | I intended to give you a card on Saturday but I completely forgot . |
| 13 | Mr Gorbachev may refrain from saying it publicly on Saturday but he can be expected to press Mr Honecker all the more urgently in private . |
| 14 | Anton 's likely to play at Brighton on Saturday but he 'll probably be away on Monday and it would be difficult to play him on Wednesday . ’ |
| 15 | We may need your young friend ( relative ? ) for the dinosaur sequence on Friday but we will need to discuss this . |
| 16 | and Thursday , you should be on Friday but I 'm gon na do instead . |
| 17 | it 's not as nice as the macros on WordPerfect but it 's adequate . |
| 18 | He was saying sorry on Tuesday but you could n't fault him here , ’ said Lions boss Mick McCarthy . |
| 19 | Here they go on youngsters but they 've got to come back stars . |
| 20 | The defending solicitor tried to fault her on identification but she described the car as having a metallic paint job , wide wheels and a number of triangular stickers in the rear window ; she also thought that she could remember a couple of fluffy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror , and she gave the first three letters of the registration number . |
| 21 | School had been tiring at first on transfer but she had soon got used to it : originally she had belonged to a number of clubs in the early day ( Thursday ) when all such activities take place , but now preferred to go home early . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most fundamental characteristic of financial reports is that they are produced by management , they report on management but they are addressed to owners and others external to the reporting organization . |
| 23 | I mean cos and we did that stall on peat but we did n't really take part in the peat day of action did we ? |
| 24 | It was the pot of white paint that dropped + had fallen on Nutmeg but he had been too scared to notice . |
| 25 | So that fits in quite well I could n't remember what I was doing on Monday but we said , sort of tentatively Monday would be probably quite a good day I think . |
| 26 | I was hoping that Steinmark would be back on Monday but I 'm afraid that you will have to carry on the best you can . |
| 27 | ‘ You would have heard officially on Monday but I thought why not tell you now and save you a week-end 's worry . |
| 28 | I have n't got , I have n't got any school on Monday but I have got ta get up early . |
| 29 | Well in that case I would n't put him on er on a job that was made out on site but I would keep him in the |
| 30 | You could see a band that plays the same type of music as us on TOTP but they would n't look like us … |