Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [coord] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journalists gathered in knots to compare notes and decide on the best angle on the story . |
| 2 | There have also been occasional errors of judgment , regretted by all but recognised to have been caused by the harsh financial climate on the one hand and the immense flood of new books demanding funds and shelving on the other . |
| 3 | Volume 47 ( 1993 ) will include articles and reviews on the following subjects : |
| 4 | The court could be asked to observe injuries or scars on the child 's body . |
| 5 | The Bordari , were an inferior class to the Villani , who rented cottages and worked on the other pastoral services and were bound to supply eggs , poultry etc. to the lords table . |
| 6 | He sprang traps and ambushes on the Witch King 's forces . |
| 7 | ‘ At which point I 'd have hysterics and writhe on the ground ? ’ |
| 8 | You can make connections or deals on the floor , but you know that it 's over that expense-account lunch , or in the private suite , the yacht , that real money is changing hands . |
| 9 | A director from each of the new companies would acquire shares and sit on the SUPPLYKITS board : as Miranda owned the entire company , these inducement shares would reduce her holding , but Adam had convinced a reluctant Miranda that by relinquishing fifteen per cent of her shares , she was exchanging a hundred per cent of a small orange for eighty-five per cent of a crateful . |
| 10 | Many of those who became tradesmen and stayed on the island had a remarkable range of knowledge . |
| 11 | Stitching pains and lies on the painful side |
| 12 | Stick small poinsettias inside the larger ones with royal icing , then arrange flowers and leaves on the cake , as shown . |
| 13 | On the other hand , by the time of Herodotus and Thucydides life in the polis did not consist of isolated episodes covering heroes but depended on the continuity of institutions , laws , contracts , and expectations . |
| 14 | Tim Mackie has explained to me that the organisation has been so successful gathering together items of rolling stock , track and equipment that there are not enough members available to operate trains and work on the infrastructure at the same time . |
| 15 | He says Oxford is a wonderland we wanted to sum up the traditional image with dreaming spires and punting on the Cherwell . |
| 16 | The RS/6000 combines input from multiple terminals and collects complete lines entered at terminals used with line-mode applications before sending the input to AIX/ESA , reducing interrupts and load on the AIX/ESA system . |