Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pron] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 2 | The third area I need to take you through is some erm typographical amendments to the resolutions that you have in front of you , so if you just bear with me I proposed to go through those and perhaps if you want to mark them on the sheets as I go through and if I 'm going too fast erm just wave . |
| 3 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 4 | On the other hand apologists for such policies rarely if ever sought to justify them on the grounds that they would reduce the real wage rate à la Malinvaud . |
| 5 | They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor had n't remembered his diagnosis . |
| 6 | Indeed , the national is often a concept used deliberately to conceal conflict over the issues , to force one kind of unity around an existing status quo ( and if the arguments do not achieve unity , troops can be used to enforce it on the recalcitrants ) . |
| 7 | The only other er notice I 've got for you is that tomorrow I forgot to put it on the notices tomorrow we 've got a lot of visitors in school there 's about er thirty five of them coming over who are likely to be joining us in the lower sixth next September er lessons with the lower sixth to find out what erm what lessons are like you know okay . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're going to hang them on the trees with candles inside them , ’ Oliver said . |
| 9 | Whatever length of time is given , though , it will be difficult for an employer to justify dismissing you on the grounds of lack of skills or basic ability within that time unless something exceptional happens . |
| 10 | Sister Cooney picked up a pile of books and began to replace them on the shelves . |
| 11 | London Underground is spending £100,000 on research to find out why so many of us like to toss ourselves on the rails . |
| 12 | The question should then be asked : How much did it cost to have them on the streets because they surely were not at school ? |
| 13 | After all , she might have seen it on the ceptors and come out to help . |
| 14 | Arctic plants would have been transported southwards on icebergs , and would have established themselves on the islands corresponding to the modern mountains . |
| 15 | And I do n't see that it helps to blame it on the stars . |
| 16 | Mr Colman if I might add that re- orientation has brought with it the need to change our pricing strategy and therefore rather than going package by package right through the whole thirty four , we 're actually trying initially on the engines to go in one bang to price everything on the engines and do it in the next few months . |
| 17 | In addition the strategic significance of the railways had impressed itself on the Bolsheviks . |
| 18 | But I 've seen them on the pictures . |
| 19 | That quite compensated for the insult he had offered her on the stairs . |
| 20 | Patrick had briefed him on the reasons for their sudden turnaround in Bucharest and the dash back to the Channel . |
| 21 | If you 've got me on the records it 'll show you . |
| 22 | But by now the rising waters had isolated them on the islands of Borneo , Sumatra and Java . |
| 23 | ‘ Teach to clap this rhythm — when achieved teach it on the feet ’ The sole reason being ? |
| 24 | And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at . |
| 25 | So it must have been the Gharrgoyles who had put me on the planets surface to die . |
| 26 | The profession 's eagerness for scientific advance had impaled it on the horns of a dilemma , forcing an unnatural choice between science and morality . |
| 27 | On one occasion an Irish visitor asked a late tenant , Mr Crawshaw , if the lady in white who had passed him on the stairs would be coming down to breakfast soon . |
| 28 | I 've put it on the stairs you see so it 's got like double height to go to , it 's nearly filled that , the thing is , the |
| 29 | In that minute Troy had kissed her on the lips . |
| 30 | They 're trying to blame it on the parents but you do n't get a set of |