Example sentences of "[verb] on [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next few days , Syrian George taped an assortment of Arab cab-drivers in Tel Aviv broadcasting on taxi frequencies with r bits and pieces of low-level intelligence picked up from observations while driving around town and from eavesdropping on their fares ' back-seat conversations . |
| 2 | I passed to her the wisdom I picked up eavesdropping on our two eldest sisters , whose lives were then lived in romantic turmoil . |
| 3 | ‘ I could n't help eavesdropping on your conversation . ’ |
| 4 | He whined and shivered , and my young blood mixed on his slavering chops with gamey saliva and thick eye-mucus as he girned and looked shakily and pleadingly up at my father , who picked him up and strangled him . |
| 5 | Caterina twisted and beat on her sister 's back with her fists . |
| 6 | I 'll camp outside your cottage and beat on your door night and day till it finally gets into your stupid , dense head that I love you . ’ |
| 7 | Mariana beat on his shoulders , screaming at him to go back . |
| 8 | As the garrison watched him from the shelter of the verandah they could tell that the rain was having a bad effect on him ; he clearly did not like the way it beat on his head and shoulders raising a fine spray ; nor did he seem partial to the way it poured down the neck of his shirt and coursed down his trouser legs . |
| 9 | Zamora — he 's probably related to the guy Wayne beat on his Los Angeles debut five weeks ago ( who knows ? ) — hung in gallantly to weather the storm and was warmly embraced by McCullough at the finish . |
| 10 | Gabriel could see his own shadow , the shadow of his peacock wings , spreading out over them , and he felt the heat of the sun beat on his back . |
| 11 | I sleep on my own in a big double bed in a big room with a view of the sea . ’ |
| 12 | He was in a filthy mood , first because I 'd suggested he sleep on my floor instead of at Sorrel 's so we could get an early start , then because I 'd made him wear a suit and tie to go with our Yuppie cover ( and because I 'd insisted on the shirt as well ) . |
| 13 | In the old days , the bride 's bouquet would be displayed in the entrance of her house for a day or so , and then a sprig of myrtle would be removed and planted to grow into a nice little bush , a sentimental memento to flourish on her estate and murmur ‘ constancy ’ into her subconscious . |
| 14 | I can call on no congressman to worry on my behalf . |
| 15 | The complexity of psychological factors involved in the AL of maintaining a safe environment means that publicity campaigns and health education programmes must go beyond simply imparting information about safety , realising that people often know what they should and could do , and yet do not act on their knowledge . |
| 16 | Batson said : ‘ We will act on their behalf as they know we always will and also involve the Football League . ’ |
| 17 | People know what the boundaries are ; they know where they should act on their own and where not . |
| 18 | Pious it may sound , but I do actually believe that there is a sense in which a group of students do collectively know much of what they need to know about learning : the problem of the PGCE year is to give them confidence that they know ; and the experience that knowing they can successfully act on their knowledge . |
| 19 | It encourages judges to decide and act on their own views . |
| 20 | ‘ But you do n't act on her warnings ? ’ |
| 21 | Yet Evans-Pritchard records that he never met a Zande who admitted to practising witchcraft , although when pressed Zande might acknowledge that witchcraft substance could act on its own account , perhaps even against the conscious intentions of the person concerned . |
| 22 | Although there were some routine matters , such as the issue of legal writs , where it could act on its own initiative , for any matter of permanent importance it needed a warrant for its action from the Privy Seal or the Signet : usually only the former would be sufficient . |
| 23 | The verb metaphor is further characterized by the fact that it has no direct link to its proper term , but acts on the noun of which it is the predicate ; in the case of the transitive verb it can also act on its direct and indirect objects . |
| 24 | It was as if I could n't act on my own behalf . |
| 25 | He would act on your behalf to the chief constable . |
| 26 | Other people can not act on your message unless they have understood it . |
| 27 | " But , Hazel , you did n't really think the Chief Rabbit would act on your advice , did you ? |
| 28 | and he said I have to admit I did n't act on your phone call and I felt like braining him I really did |
| 29 | They will act on your behalf to make sure the NHS is working for you . |
| 30 | If they do n't act on your request , or if you have any problems , the ASA will investigate your complaints . |