Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John and his team have already extracted considerable concessions from the Inland Revenue , which means that the majority of us will be able to continue as before , i.e. we will be able to satisfy the Inland Revenue that the majority of priests do not have the liability to tax on their income from the Church , without the need for the Inland Revenue to meet us on an individual basis . |
| 2 | It 's very much the last attempt — not er , not for , from the point of view of negotiating or er , but , but simply a matter of fact , er we need erm we need to move , we need to have additional sources of , sources of income , that er the type of facility that we 're looking to build will give the club to put it on a firm financial footing , and at the same time to give the local people of the City and er the , the surrounding County er tremendous new facilities . |
| 3 | As it moves , the scorpion relies on information from air passing over its hairs to keep it on a straight course . |
| 4 | All that was necessary was for the porter to replace it on the wrong nail before going to Compline , and leave her its ineffective twin . |
| 5 | Their worthlessness is discovered only when the duped client attempts to sell them on the legitimate market . |
| 6 | ‘ It would have been a fascinating exercise to auction it on the free market and see how much it got , though ’ , said Maître Binoche . |
| 7 | You connect them and they have arrangement with funeral directors to get them on the cheap . |
| 8 | Manchester United wait on Bryan Robson 's decision on his fitness for the Rumbelows Cup Final against Nottingham Forest today , and hope to use the match to launch them on the final leg of their title procession . |
| 9 | She prised Burton out of digs in Streatham to install him on the top floor of her house in Pelham Crescent — just a few doors down from Emlyn Williams . |
| 10 | Firstly , although Wessel ( 1797 ) and Argand ( 1806 ) had tried to make complex numbers a little more respectable by showing how to interpret them , their addition and multiplication geometrically , there remained , possibly because of doubts concerning the intuitive use of geometrical arguments , the desire to put them on a firmer basis . |
| 11 | From Tuesday 18 September until Thursday 20 September we will be On Location in the International Designer Room to advise you on the best colours for make-up and the latest fashions and accessories to enhance your personal look . |
| 12 | It was a special gift from a famous actor in California who had tried to persuade Sweetheart to join him on a luxury tour of Europe . |
| 13 | Annabel tried to persuade Stephen to join her on a bright-blue canvas swing seat with Charlie . |
| 14 | Certainly , salmon seem to use smell to guide them on the last stage of their journey . |
| 15 | When he spied his guests , he jumped to his feet and called a greeting , straightening the chairs and holding them one after the other to steady them on the uneven gravel while they sat down . |
| 16 | Fortunately , Kathleen Kenyon took pottery a little more seriously than her mentor , and her Jewry Wall report ( 1948 ) is one of the first serious efforts to use it on a large scale to date the main sequences . |
| 17 | But , carrying baskets of buffalo dung from the pit by the cattle shed , along the road and down towards the mango tree to put it on the furthest field , my nose was burnt before I 'd walked twenty yards . |
| 18 | , ‘ Other Cattle ’ market manager , has just completed a national roadshow around all the sales teams to brief them on the new range . |
| 19 | As the last of the militiamen were swallowed up by the forest a great roar of delight rose from the gipsies and they crowded around Noah to congratulate him on the unexpected victory he had scored over the Burford magistrate . |
| 20 | Treatment is refused on the basis that it 's a better use of resources to spend them on the young . |
| 21 | One minute , Mrs Doyle was found to be going along with arrangements to play it on a nine hole course and , soon after , it was cancelled altogether . |
| 22 | But James said his son had needed some firm , fatherly advice to keep him on the right track as a teenager . |
| 23 | On March 1 , 1991 , Bolger personally telephoned US President Bush to congratulate him on the allied victory . |
| 24 | Annabel had said as much to Father Ross the last time he had come to tea , and Father Ross had looked at her sternly over his glasses , saying that if we all understood the way the Universe was run what would there be left for God to tell us on the Last Day . |
| 25 | Their phone call came to my home in Hampstead inviting me to come to Toronto to meet them on the following Sunday . |
| 26 | Mr Jim Woolsey , a member of Scowcroft commission and one of the Democrats ' leading missile experts , says it makes much more sense to put them on the vast military bases of Nevada and California , where they could be continually on the move . |
| 27 | Pull up the lining to fit the size of the outer curtain and insert the curtain hooks , first into the lining tape then into the standard tape on the curtains to hang them on a conventional track . |
| 28 | He 's probably counting on family connections to get you on the cheap ! |
| 29 | But Gloucestershire 's decision to place him on the restrictive List One of available players has been initially supported by the TCCB registration committee . |
| 30 | The construction company , John Mowlem , Hants to build it on the central pier dividing the Royal Albert dock and the King George V dock . |