Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it does seem possible that Georgina purposely waylaid Arabella on the day before she died , and that the two of them had a row . |
| 2 | ( Opposite below ) The first of the Class 47s — or Brush Type 4s as they were known when D1500 appeared in 1962 — still hard at work rom Gateshead depot in 1987. here No 47401 , as it is now numbered and carrying the name North Eastern which it both received and lost during the 1980s , nears Greenfield on a Trans-Pennine service , the 17.03 Liverpool to Newcastle on 19 June 1987 . |
| 3 | ARA officials met Dzerzhinsky on 12 April to complain about the requisitioning of their supplies . |
| 4 | President Roosevelt wired Churchill on 21 November that both sides had compromised , but the UK insisted on restricting the number of aircraft irrespective of the amount of traffic : ‘ This seems to me a form of strangulation , ’ he wrote , and he asked Churchill not to let the conference collapse . |
| 5 | I met Marianne on Jerba , an island claiming mythic status as the place where the Sirens held Ulysses . |
| 6 | I 'll go back to London , I 'll move to a new district , I 'll start seeing Sophie on a regular basis , I 'll do my job as if I were any competent lawyer , and I 've come here alone , you bastard , so why do n't you do whatever you 've got in mind ? |
| 7 | " It might be too late then , " Joseph said slapping Patrick on the shoulder , before turning back into the shop and closing the door . |
| 8 | She had been christened Nicandra on the insistence of her father who , in his luckier years , had bred and trained and ridden an outstanding winner of that name . |
| 9 | Even if CGT applied , the combination of s 80 , FA 1980 ( as amended by s 94(3) , FA 1991 ) means that the application of market value at March 1982 , indexation relief and the £40,000 exemption might well reduce or eliminate CGT on any part deemed to be let . |
| 10 | When Lucio goes to prompt Isabella on how to persuade Angelo — a scene in which persuasion has much of the ambivalence that Shakespeare commonly associated with rhetoric — he moves up to verse ( Measure for Measure , 1 . |
| 11 | ‘ We had originally planned to sample Burroughs on our next single , ‘ Just One Fix ’ . |
| 12 | Iraq formally annexed Kuwait on Aug. 8 , in defiance of the imposition of UN sanctions [ see below ] and despite the arrival of US forces in Saudi Arabia . |
| 13 | That demand was apparently dropped when Yeltsin met Gorbachev on Jan. 8 , however , and Russia 's formula for its contributions was accepted . |
| 14 | Jackson , the estate agent , met Barratt on one of his visits having brought with him Michael Knott who was now desirous of talking business with John Taylor when he was next up . |
| 15 | Turns Medusa on her head |
| 16 | ‘ I would love to have seen 400,000 kids coming along to see Kylie on this tour , but it just is not possible , ’ said Waterman . |
| 17 | He had been seeing Molly on and off for about six months . |
| 18 | I got Toby on the second ring and explained Sally 's suggestion . |
| 19 | See I got Sue on it as well . |
| 20 | IBM has its own OLTP CICS software running on MVS and , if reports prove true , will be announcing CICS on AIX-run workstations this week . |
| 21 | In Yule 's book , a reporter comments that if you interview Puttnam on a day when he is depressed , you will hear all about it . |
| 22 | President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union visited Germany on Nov. 9-10 . |
| 23 | The Minister of Foreign Affairs , Farooq ash-Shar " , visited Germany on Sept. 16-17 for talks with his German counterpart Hans-Dietrich Genscher . |
| 24 | Russian President Boris Yeltsin visited Germany on Nov. 21-23 ( his first foreign visit since the August coup attempt in the Soviet Union ) . |
| 25 | President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Germany on Sept. 21-23 and France on Sept 23-25 . |
| 26 | Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin visited Germany on Sept. 14-16 . |
| 27 | He say Stoke on Trent . |
| 28 | They turn round and say to me , they never say Stoke on Trent , they turn round and say to me , what part of Yorkshire are you from ? |
| 29 | This reaffirmation of Hanoi 's scheme was given despite the lobbying of the Thai Foreign Minister , Sitthi Sawtsila , who visited Moscow on behalf of ASEAN a week prior to Nguyen Van Linh . |
| 30 | Havel visited Moscow on Feb. 26-27 , holding talks with President Gorbachev on bilateral relations and developments in Europe , including the unification of the two German states ( on which the two leaders were reported to hold a very close position ) . |