Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] on a [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Constanze attempted to launch him on a career similar to his father 's — as a child-prodigy pianist — and on returning to Vienna he took composition lessons with Salieri , who proclaimed his ‘ a rare talent ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , put them on a Code Red standby . |
| 3 | No , well I 'm I 'm saying to you the same sort of things , in general skills and abilities there are certain things that we required to put in the er numeracy the literacy er , to some degree attendance and punctuality , although we do n't have to do it on a subject specific basis erm we , everybody wants to know about he young , ho whether their youngsters are trying i.e. effort ha , whether they behave in lessons . |
| 4 | Zollner 's illusion makes parallel lines seem to diverge by placing them on a zigzag striped background . |
| 5 | So the universe does seem to be roughly the same in every direction , provided one views it on a scale large compared to the distance between galaxies , and ignores the differences on small scales . |