Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had become interested in the Sudan itself after reading Samuel Baker 's books , but at first my interest was largely in the wild life and the big-game hunting in the Southern Sudan ; then at Eton I chanced on The River War , Winston Churchill 's vivid account of Kitchener 's campaign to reconquer the Sudan from the Khalifa . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember the cover story I did on The Clash in 1977 , the thing that became ‘ Capital Radio ’ . |
| 3 | it 's just some noise I heard on the tape . |
| 4 | LAST Tuesday I mused on the problems the Queen was facing with her family . |
| 5 | This massacre of the innocents I blame on The Silk Plant Company whose trees , plants and flowers are so lifelike , one can be forgiven for doubting the real thing . |
| 6 | And it could turn out that the car I left on the Foulness road was stolen from a car park in Colchester or somewhere . |
| 7 | Giving evidence , Capt von Humbracht said that he picked up the uniform , hat and sword belonging to Napoleon which lay on the ground . |
| 8 | In order to wean the company away from a reliance on theatre plays , he set up a major script department which drew on the talents of writers like Frank Launder , Sidney Gilliatt , Val Guest and Michael Pertwee , as well as occasionally giving jobs to young writers like Christopher Isherwood . |
| 9 | ‘ No , it were n't an interositor , them has triangular screens and positronic wave cross-band modulators which operate on the principle of ionized beta photons bombarding the nucleus of an alpha particle . |
| 10 | The slot for the fielded panel at the bottom of the curved members , needed a template which rested on the wood at each end of the slot to which I glued and screwed a 50 x 50 batten , the slot being routered to the correct depth in the middle and slightly oversize at each end . |
| 11 | All opportunities which appear on the ABN are screened against Buyers . |
| 12 | This light emulsion contains an ultra-fine powder ingredient which sits on the skin and alters the rate at which light bounces off it : the result is a complexion which refuses to look or act its age . |
| 13 | POSC began life in November 1990 as a three year effort backed by $15m funding plus membership fees of up to $100,000 which depend on the organisation 's size . |
| 14 | She kicked a tin which lay on the pavement . |
| 15 | Where a lease creates a term of years which is expressed to run from some date earlier than that of the execution of the lease , the term created will be a term which begins on the date the lease is executed , and not the earlier date . |
| 16 | The result was periodic clashes between the government and organizations such as Protestant Action which insisted on the right to march where they wished . |
| 17 | He goes on to develop a theory of communicative action which focuses on the exchange of ideas and meanings in contrast to the exchange of goods . |
| 18 | There was n't one correct entry for 's crossword published in the last issue — so how about this new quiz which arrived on the editor 's desk via pensioner . |
| 19 | The cumulative effect is not unlike those children 's books which herd on the cover a mad whirl of characters — Red Indians , Cowboys , Kings and Queens , Soldiers , Pirates — all cluttered up together . |
| 20 | The supposedly most securely dated vessels are those which can be related to Continental chronologies ; vessels which occur on the Continent but not in England date to before the migration , those on both sides of the North Sea to the migration period itself , and those which are only found in England must have developed after the migration period . |
| 21 | Froggy , mainly for the sake of his generous retainer and the equally generous bonuses which glittered on the horizon , swore off drink , tobacco and even gambling . |
| 22 | Elsewhere he refers to a treaty imposed by the king on the peoples who lived on the river Wahal , that is the Franks . |
| 23 | Native peoples who depend on the forests for their livelihoods , and animal species like the Siberian tiger , have suffered . |
| 24 | However , U2 will have sorely disappointed fans who rely on the music press as their solo source of information . |
| 25 | But the Prime Minister may be more concerned to ward off the various demons she perceives on the horizon . |
| 26 | as good as the frictional force you get on the bottom . |
| 27 | Enclosure as a subject for poetry is usually associated with Oliver Goldsmith who touched on the question in ‘ The Traveller ’ ( 1764 ) , before producing ‘ The Deserted Village ’ ( 1770 ) . |
| 28 | I mean it 's no good you starting on the S and the T. |
| 29 | and husbands who relied on the state to take over |
| 30 | One journalist who persisted on the point was referred to playfully as ‘ a Chartist or a Luddite ’ by one press officer , who added that there was also the argument that 600 Group should worry about staying in business and not about unemployment . |