Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] on [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 2 | I have therefore grouped them on a broad geological basis : sand , chalk , clay , and the gravels and loams of the coastal plain which probably also enjoys a modest climatic advantage over the rest of the county . |
| 3 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
| 4 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
| 5 | Next she looked for her bag , and found it on a long low table . |
| 6 | Then take a second card from the middle pile and place it on the other outside pile . |
| 7 | She poked busily at the concoctions , withdrew the tins from the oven and put them on the scrubbed wooden table to cool . |
| 8 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 9 | If the strip becomes curled when you cut it , put it on a hard flat surface and hammer it flat . |
| 10 | You 'd be well advised not to overdo it on the old liquid refreshment , however , as the return leg beside the river involves crossing an awful lot of stiles . |
| 11 | Yet I recently visited a hi-tech company which was fully conversant with activity-based costing yet did not do it on a regular annual basis . |
| 12 | … the people of Burma are friendly hospitable folk ; they meet you on a friendly equal basis , without cringing or self-assertion . |
| 13 | Franco pulled glasses two at a time from the sink and set them on the tiny draining board . |
| 14 | Mr Jim Woolsey , a member of Scowcroft commission and one of the Democrats ' leading missile experts , says it makes much more sense to put them on the vast military bases of Nevada and California , where they could be continually on the move . |
| 15 | It 's very much the last attempt — not er , not for , from the point of view of negotiating or er , but , but simply a matter of fact , er we need erm we need to move , we need to have additional sources of , sources of income , that er the type of facility that we 're looking to build will give the club to put it on a firm financial footing , and at the same time to give the local people of the City and er the , the surrounding County er tremendous new facilities . |
| 16 | Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National . |
| 17 | If you do n't have a male flower with pollen dropping , take the most developed flower , open it carefully to expose the anthers , use tweezers carefully to take out some filaments and lay them on a clean dry plate or saucer . |
| 18 | I 've called him Ferdinand ( not Caliban ) three times , and complimented him on a horrid new tie . |
| 19 | Using the striped ribbon technique , make a small gift tag and lay it on the small red parcel with a white twisted ribbon to secure . |
| 20 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 21 | Mandy 's put them on a nice new sheet ai n't ya ? |
| 22 | To my surprise , voices from the Labour Benches shouted , ’ Put him on the Scottish Grand Committee . ’ |
| 23 | To give Perdita confidence in her first chukka , he 'd put her on a dark brown pony called Chimango ( which meant bird of prey ) , who was as steady as a rock , but who swept down on the ball like a hawk . |
| 24 | We were able to respond by making a play within a play , setting it on a remote Japanese island and doing a Noh play . |
| 25 | He 'd probably achieved it on a pleasant little trip to the Bahamas . |
| 26 | ‘ To celebrate this remarkable new breakthrough in British holiday technology , we are inviting the press to join us on a special round trip to Sharjah , the Pearl of the Trucial Riviera , next month … ’ |
| 27 | I think I can help you on the particular limited point of deaths and their effect . |
| 28 | Sorry to be so vague , darling , but blame it on the unreliable British climate . |