Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 2 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
| 3 | Most of us want to see ourselves on the screen — although it may turn out to be an unpleasant experience ! — but we 're not usually terribly interested in watching the performance of others . |
| 4 | I asked her to come to see me on the day after her arrival and at the hour of sunset , the best time for the wonderful view that I then had to offer her . |
| 5 | However , because of their wide scope , when judging such clauses under s 3 of the UCTA , one has to treat them on the basis that they exclude or restrict liability for total failure to perform by reason of wilful default . |
| 6 | Marc got up , face like a thunder-cloud , the look he gave Peter designed to shrivel him on the spot . |
| 7 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 8 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 9 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 10 | The person with the cushion on their lap then has to stroke them on the head and say ‘ Poor pussy ’ without laughing . |
| 11 | But the common story , so far as we can tell , was of a prospering contado helping a few of the citizens to be successful merchants , carrying local market goods and some from longer distances ; and if Francis ' father had not been a successful merchant trading into France , the saint would not have borne the name he did , nor suffered the intense reaction to his father 's worldly values which helped to inspire him on the path to poverty and heaven . |
| 12 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 13 | ‘ I want to put myself on the map and this Test is a good chance to start doing it . ’ |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I am doing it my way and if I am to be able to beat Alain Prost I want to do it on the track by out-driving him , not by any other means . |
| 15 | It was former Dublin manager Kevin Heffernan who , McGilligan reckons , helped to put him on the road to success . |
| 16 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 17 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
| 18 | The landlord 's wife was expected to accompany him on the trip to Head Office . |
| 19 | If you tried to pat her on the shoulder and say ‘ There , there , ’ anything might happen . |
| 20 | He drove grimly and skilfully and he drove very fast as if he could not wait to get her on the plane to England and out of his sight . |
| 21 | I want to get it on the market as soon as possible . ’ |
| 22 | All this is so rich , heady and fast-moving that the viewer has to take it on the narrator 's trust . |
| 23 | Only the instructor had done better and none of the officers who had come to amuse themselves on the range had more than a dozen hits out of 18 rounds . |
| 24 | If you want to display it on a device with different resolution , you have the following options : — |
| 25 | It can from , in situations where the employer wants to take one on the life of the employee . |
| 26 | Trying to drive yours up , spread on the table , not on the carpet , cos you he has to move everything on the carpet it 's not so slippy . |
| 27 | Full-back Steve Mungall wants to join him on the score-sheet after bookmakers Stanley 's gave special odds on his scoring feats . |
| 28 | When all is said and done , the attraction of earning a living playing a sport you enjoy is a strong one and it is not hard to understand why some players have to try to make it on the Tour . |
| 29 | So he tried to show them on the piano . |
| 30 | At one extreme , it is possible to try to commit everything on the tape to paper . |