Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 2 | The Inland Revenue has commented further on the tax treatment of ex gratia payments made on the termination of an office or employment , as set out in Statement of Practice SP 13/91 . |
| 3 | During 1912 , when numbers had reached 172 , it was decided that entry would have to be restricted for the next year , as " the Board of Education has commented adversely on the size of several of our classes and has refused to countenance it " . |
| 4 | Gran has joined in on the act . |
| 5 | In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease . |
| 6 | Right if you have a look at what has come up on the screen , on the screen . |
| 7 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 8 | Since its inception in 1980 , the superfund has moved slowly on the country 's 11 000 dangerous dumps . |
| 9 | A former Car of the Year winner , it has done well on the Continent but has been under-rated here . |
| 10 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 11 | The new enlightenment 's assault on social democracy has focused particularly on the concept of ‘ dependency ’ . |
| 12 | During the 1980s the discussion about disparities of prosperity between different regions in the UK has focused increasingly on the issue of the North-South divide . |
| 13 | In view of the educational importance of explanation , it is surprising that so little research has focused directly on the development of children 's ability to give and understand explanations ; or on how children actually cope with explanations in the classroom . |
| 14 | Since the second world war , US foreign policy has rested largely on the identification of ‘ goodies ’ and ‘ baddies ’ , in the context of global superpower . |
| 15 | Moreover , conventional medicine has concentrated mainly on the treatment of chronic and acute illness , and until recent years the role of preventive medicine has suffered comparative neglect . |
| 16 | This remedy may come up after a Belladonna sore throat has gone down on the chest . |
| 17 | Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations . |
| 18 | That privilege , and the airs and presumption that went with it , are still resented ; and some of the resentment has rubbed off on the poet . |
| 19 | Simon Wigg has lined up on the starting grid in more world championships than most people have changed tyres . |
| 20 | ‘ Belinda , love , can you remember exactly how you are , and go and get your brush and brush your hair round so that it lies spread out on the chair ? ’ she said . |
| 21 | Dr Breeze is an international authority on Roman archaeology and has published extensively on the subject . |
| 22 | He has published widely on the theme of science policy and the politics of economic reform in the USSR , and has advised the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee on Science and Technology about recent developments in the USSR . |
| 23 | But the blanket screening has backfired badly on the Department of Defense in Dublin . |
| 24 | I rushed him to hospital and the doctor asked how it was done and I said he 'd fallen over on the step . |
| 25 | Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators . |
| 26 | They 'd talked little on the way back , Delaney desperately trying to find another reason , however unlikely , for Connors not briefing him fully . |
| 27 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
| 28 | When they 'd landed back on the plate , he leaned forward , studying the pattern they 'd formed . |
| 29 | So , underlying this chapter is a theory of ageing based not on the analysis of biologically determined differences in senescence or individual adjustments to the ageing process but , instead , on the social creation of dependent status and on the structural relationships between older people and younger adults and between different groups of older people , especially men and women . |
| 30 | I 'd gone out on the boat |