Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This reconstruction of Rawls ' argument for the doctrine of neutral political concern attempts to found it on the notion of autonomy through the notion of moral self-determination . |
| 2 | She did n't care about anything ; she just wanted Meredith to see her on the back of the Prince 's white charger . |
| 3 | Too busy joy-riding in their nice shiny patrol cars to hoof it on the beat . ’ |
| 4 | You 'd like that , would n't you , Leith ? ’ he had the unmitigated nerve to put her on the spot . |
| 5 | The use of special juries of merchants by Lord Mansfield to guide him on the law is well known — not that he always followed their suggestions . |
| 6 | These are the leather straps you put round the bird 's legs to hold it on the glove that you have to wear when you handle birds of prey . |
| 7 | ‘ It — hmm — never was my intention to take you on the couch in my drawing-room , ’ he commented gruffly , purposely putting some daylight between them . |
| 8 | Fortunately , in this series of articles we will use more conventional maps to set us on the treasure trail , because it is my belief that correctly interpreted , the Ordnance Survey maps of the British Isles already contain most of the information necessary to track down some of the treasures that time has so cunningly concealed ! |
| 9 | Many turners appreciate pleasing curves but like me , do n't possess the ‘ eye ’ or the skill to create them on a lathe . |
| 10 | I can get a boy from the village to help me on the farm . |
| 11 | The owner of an eighteen foot fibre glass shark has won a six year battle to keep it on the roof of his terraced home . |
| 12 | Despite some misgivings , he persuaded Tom Gray to accompany him on a wander to a nearby burial ground , Lying on top of a heap of bones , ‘ almost asking to be taken , was a femur . |
| 13 | EXPLORER Gerald Kingsland , 62 — who inspired the film Castaway — has had scores of replies to an ad for a girl to join him on an island . |
| 14 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 15 | This shows that when Churchill first asked his officials to brief him on the subject , R. G. Hawtrey replied that public works would indeed increase employment , provided they were linked to an expansion of credit . |
| 16 | After a championship victory earlier in the year , at which circuit did his British fans risk their safety to mob him on the track ? |
| 17 | cars one at a time on horse drawn flat trucks , along Canterbury Road and Mitcham Road to dump them on the site in Aurelia Road , which the company had purchased for a depôt . |
| 18 | However , scarcely was the ink dry on the paper when , at the end of December 1981 , the Secretary of State announced in the House of Commons that , ‘ with the agreement of the local authority associations and after consultation with other interested parties ’ , he had decided to establish a new body to advise him on the distribution of the advanced further education pool and on academic provision in local authority institutions of higher education . |
| 19 | Given this continuing policy vacuum on the one hand and the implacable opposition of the judiciary to any attempts to fill it on the other , it is not altogether surprising that few attempts have been made to fashion an overall criminal justice strategy that would bring together sentencing and penal policy . |
| 20 | ‘ I am asking for a mandate from the supporters and shareholders to put me on the board . ’ |
| 21 | Um so erm I did have some I did have some references on this which erm unfortunately I I put to one side and I 've succeeded in losing so erm I did n't get the chance to put them on the handout but erm I 'm just alerting you to that area of debate and that area of enquiry . |
| 22 | It 's not that he wants to stop them going to the toilet , we 've got to persuade these people to do it on a stagger basis … |
| 23 | On the one hand he was supposedly an inferior being , with anti-social habits and disgusting personality traits ; on the other hand he possessed a superior intelligence and sufficient group solidarity to leave him on the verge of world domination . |
| 24 | Knowing her fear of the sea they had invariably travelled by air : to Switzerland for ski-ing , to the States , when she had got leave from Brentwoods to accompany him on a kind of working-holiday . |
| 25 | But such criticisms were rebutted this week by Selina herself with the simple argument that whatever her talents are , one of them lies in getting people to watch her on the television . |
| 26 | Er I 'd like to i ask our presenters this morning to join me on the stage to take any questions from the floor and ask if you could er fill in your er y y your sur your sheets on the on today 's events before you leave please . |
| 27 | She generates interesting theories , offers stimulating possibilities , makes her pitch for a long exploration , and all but does the dance of the seven veils to persuade Rainbow to join her on a journey of self-discovery . |
| 28 | To , to make contingency plans to hold it on a day when we do n't need the cooperation of the employers in terms of time off |
| 29 | They would provide him with an army to set him on the throne in return for his establishment of a presbyterian form of church government throughout the realm . |
| 30 | We both decided that we needed more detector users to help us on the day , so John contacted members of the Shropshire Antiquities Group , who were more than willing to lend a helping hand . |