Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I can call on no congressman to worry on my behalf . |
| 3 | Julius followed her , not saying anything but just watching her , until his intense gaze began to grate on her nerves even more badly than the approaching storm . |
| 4 | The hedge was fast approaching , looking too big , far too big for Buttons to jump on his own . |
| 5 | He walked from the room and Kate felt an urge to jump on his back and tear his hair out . |
| 6 | On one occasion they got so swollen headed that they were charging the children a penny each to try on their hats . |
| 7 | That would be a good one for you to try on your own . |
| 8 | ‘ Mama , I want to try on my new dress , ’ Anna said . |
| 9 | I want to try on my costume . |
| 10 | I never needed the alarm clock or Mum or Bri to hammer on my door . |
| 11 | ‘ And take this also , for you will have charges to meet on your journey . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ They talked about the glory of the family and then taught children to inform on their parents . |
| 13 | ‘ And marriage itself might have been a useful bit of insurance for Gustav : her relatives or guardians would have been less likely to inform on her husband than on some passing stranger who could get his trousers open in Olympic time . ’ |
| 14 | Larry Parks is remembered for being one of the first to inform on his Communist friends before the committee , better remembered perhaps than he is for impersonating Al Jolson in two films which made him , at that time , a star . |
| 15 | It emerges that the head maltster has been asked to inform on his behaviour to the police . |
| 16 | You 're going to get a real whipping now , and the only time you speak is to tell us you 're ready to inform on your friends . |
| 17 | A cannon requires a full crew to work properly — to carry cannon balls , load gunpowder , push the machine round to bear on its target , and so on . |
| 18 | It has been assumed that the superpowers acting in unison can bring sufficient pressure to bear on their respective clients to enable peace negotiations . |
| 19 | In The Victorian Sage ( 1953 ) John Holloway revived the faded reputations of Carlyle , Disraeli , George Eliot , Newman , Arnold and Hardy as controversialists , and set himself to show , as a trained philosopher , how Wittgensteinian analysis could be brought to bear on their forgotten polemics . |
| 20 | What is immediately needed is that teachers should bring to bear on their day to day problems astringent intellectual scrutiny . |
| 21 | All this stifles debate and leaves many Japanese feeling unable to bring any influence to bear on their government . |
| 22 | Mr George Gale , on the other hand , sensed a more general deterioration in manners as the fountain-head of Britain 's troubles , while bringing a much abbreviated time-scale to bear on their onset . |
| 23 | In all cases , clients can benefit from our ability to bring all our multidisciplinary skills and resources to bear on their problems . |
| 24 | What we can still do is to escape at long last from the constitutional fiction which we once grasped to ease our transition from the capital of a worldwide empire to a nation state alongside other nation states , but which , having produced so much havoc here at home , has turned into an instrument for external duress to be brought to bear on our own political institutions . |
| 25 | This would bring financial pressure to bear on his friends and family , and besides it was profitable . |
| 26 | At which moment , the Editor , a young man from Glasgow , who seemed to bear on his narrow shoulders guilt for all the sins of the Western world , emerged from his office and was off to lunch with a left-wing Labour M.P . |
| 27 | He brought undue pressure to bear on his parents by giving them an entirely misleading account of the documents . |
| 28 | Botha , meanwhile , signed off with a few words of advice for the Welsh : ‘ They are going berserk about nothing and it might be time for the WRU to concentrate on their own rugby . ’ |
| 29 | The Italian rituro system is monastic in its rigour , players are kept away from wine , women and song for weeks on end , in order to concentrate on their game . |
| 30 | The proposed post-divorce reform of a jointly agreed statement of parenting arrangements for children is welcome in principle , but many parents will require access to conciliation to enable them to concentrate on their children 's needs . |