Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] on the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , according to Hardie , ‘ in the case of allocating insurance premiums on particular lines of cover when setting individual budgets for the following year , head offices could look at their operating units ’ past claims records and load them on the poor performers while even awarding the equivalent of no claims bonuses to the good ones . |
| 2 | As I panted in the thin air , a herdboy passed me on the broken steps which zigzagged up the mountainside , joining the smooth terraces with their retaining walls of stone . |
| 3 | At Aintree he beat The Thinker just over seven lengths and is due to meet him on the same terms , although Jimmy Frost , his rider , may put up a pound or two more than the minimum 10st . |
| 4 | Send them to your boss 's secretary , stating in writing that you are starting on the preparation of the report , as instructed , and are basing it on the enclosed terms of reference . |
| 5 | He seated himself on the cold tiles and picked at their dark dusty colours with one finger . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's definitely put me on the right tracks for the future . |
| 7 | If you have a problem with a friend , partner , child , colleague or neighbour , try meeting them on the inner planes before discussing the issue with them in person : |
| 8 | It simply did not , and does not , offer a framework on which to hang a convincing story … the geographer , when he analyses the material properties of the man-environment systems , must base himself on the central functions of that system , rather than on the traditional divisions of physical geography . |
| 9 | If you put it on the right feet it 's clearly one of the best available . |
| 10 | My friend 's friend advised us on the best solicitors for a rape case , but warned that the final bill might be enough to buy a flat in Mayfair . |
| 11 | Clydebank make a practice of discomfiting clubs from the higher division when they meet them on the claustrophobic confines of their own pitch , as last season 's finalists , Airdrie , discovered when they were knocked out after a third-round replay . |
| 12 | Whether they 're hard to get or whether they have n't got them on the normal channels I do n't know ! |
| 13 | video hire chart , update you on the new releases , and give you the chance to win one of the top ten films . |
| 14 | She would run around her pen at such speed that the centrifugal force would keep her on the vertical walls like a Wall of Death rider . |
| 15 | Nick Champion of Russell , Baldwin and Bright Markets , who run it on the four Tuesdays prior to Christmas and sell several tons a year , says dealers are having to travel far afield to collect mistletoe to sell at Tenbury . |
| 16 | In arriving at these estimates I have based them on the following estimations and assumptions : |
| 17 | Just get you on the other charges . ’ |
| 18 | He picked her legs up one by one , and placed them on the two benches . |
| 19 | McIntyre was able to drive her almost as fast to windward as the 50-footers and lost nothing on the downwind legs . |
| 20 | Most pay them on the same rates of pay , but because they lack seniority and are usually filling low-skilled , entry-level positions , seasonal workers ' actual earnings are usually lower than those of comparable regular workers . |
| 21 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
| 22 | The reason that his brush has stroked not a lot on these pristine pages of late is twofold : firstly , he 's been very busy providing illustrations for the soon-to-be-seen N-Force magazine ( which Europress are launching for Nintendo fans = both of them ! ) , and he 's been sunning himself on the golden shores of beautiful Bali for the past three weeks ! |
| 23 | On Feb. 20 Brooke had held talks with John Hume , the leader of the Social Democratic and Liberal Party , and the next day had met Gerry Collins , the Irish Foreign Affairs Minister , to brief him on the earlier meetings . |
| 24 | To save time , he decided to take the bicycle with him across the fields so that he could ride it on the smoother sections . |
| 25 | Yeah , doing it on the wrong sides . |
| 26 | The best we can do is raise our own children differently ( a project that will fail , ironically , to the extent that children model themselves on the unreconstructed adults they encounter ! ) |
| 27 | Then the door of the Earl 's hall slowly yielded , and his father carried him in and laid him on the same bales . |
| 28 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 29 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 30 | It takes little to get me on the right lines . |