Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [pron] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are lovely to visit — especially when you want to feast yourself on a Dorset cream tea — but it is the rolling countryside and stunning coastline which attract the many lovers of the outdoors . |
| 2 | If you want to display it on a device with different resolution , you have the following options : — |
| 3 | After four years in the explosives division , his management potential had been spotted and moves were made to launch him on a management development programme of rotation to broaden his experience . |
| 4 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 5 | Over the next 40 minutes or so I hope to take you on a review of the practical application of artificial intelligence ( AI ) in the field of aircraft maintenance within the RAF . |
| 6 | Lord Denning sought to avoid it on a number of occasions , the most notable case being Davis v. Johnson [ 1978 ] 2 WLR 182 ( CA ) . |
| 7 | Where would you most like to find yourself on a Sunday morning ? |
| 8 | Erm right just t message on secretaries clubs , going to put them on a back burner for a while then in terms of actually forming a club as such |
| 9 | and I 've mounted them on green germ , but I 'm going to put them on a table , and then hang the germs from the ceiling or something , round , cos I have n't got a board for that . |
| 10 | First we 're going to send you on a treasure hunt , collecting information from the magazine . |
| 11 | So you 've got to present yourself on a business level . |
| 12 | He once broke off a phone call saying the police were waiting to take him on a tour of one of their up-to-date rape suites . |
| 13 | ‘ Would you like to join us on a walk ? ’ they asked . |
| 14 | The clarity and definition of rich pictures can be aided by using computer graphics ; however , attempting to construct them on a computer from the outset can impose artificial constraints , and the original pictures should always be drawn freehand . |
| 15 | ‘ No , I 've got a little bit , but I do n't want to waste it on a hotel . |
| 16 | I threatened to put him on a discipline charge because whenever the drunks were turning out , you 'd find him in the station writing some trivial bike without a light . |
| 17 | Bu bu , but I mean but they 're not expecting to have it on a plate ! |
| 18 | One of the judges agreed to accompany me on a visit to one of these centres . |
| 19 | If anybody wanted to tell ( him ) something , they 'd have to write it on a piece of paper … ’ |
| 20 | What 's the strangest place you have ever woken to find yourself on a Sunday morning ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The powers-that-be decide to send you on a suicide mission — nice peeps , are n't they ? |
| 23 | So , for the remit 's specification of industrial democracy , the rationale has to be this : that officials or , for that matter , ordinary members of the union , elected or deputed to represent it on a board of directors , would be accountable to the membership which would replace them if it judged their performance to be unsatisfactory . |
| 24 | Nobody knows , but you 'd have to milk it on a pogo stick ! |
| 25 | So you 've got the right idea of dividing it by eight , but you needed to take it on a stage and see what the was . |
| 26 | I hired one and went to try it on a mountain . |
| 27 | A paperback copy of some financial blockbuster he is carrying around is dismissed as ‘ not my sort of thing at all ’ ( he has been asked to review it on a radio show ) . |
| 28 | After mass a lay brother offered to take us on a tour of the church and other interesting sights of the abbey . |
| 29 | I would erm suggest what we do is we stop the Dieside and put in something else , you know , just to keep you on on I do n't really want to have you on a combination of lots |
| 30 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |