Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] on [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It so happened that the local station was still waiting on the True Brit for recognition of a tidbit passed on to that paper six months ago about a rural dean and a lady elephant-tamer . |
| 2 | He flips way off the handle , often too ridiculous for his own good , but his unfaltering sincerity and self-belief is steadying and dispels any giddy embarrassment brought on by such behaviour . |
| 3 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
| 4 | Obviously you can have photocopies or laser prints copied on to this material , but I have here some pens and a box of blank acetates which you will have the opportunity later to use if you so wish . |
| 5 | Indeed the poverty of the police resources put on to this kind of case is one of the lasting issues it raises . |
| 6 | As the media caught on to this aspect of the cult , it caused some skins to leave the movement and more violent people to join it . |
| 7 | In every case taken on by this Firm we appoint a Supervisor who has overall responsibility to the client for the way the claim is handled . |
| 8 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
| 9 | ROS : To sum up : your father , whom you love , dies , you are his heir , you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his young brother popped on to this throne and into his sheets , thereby offending both legal and natural practice . |