Example sentences of "[noun] by [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figures for this year show that £20 million-worth of coal will be imported to Britain by the end of December — the equivalent of closing 20 average-sized pits and getting rid of between 20,000 and 25,000 miners by throwing them on the scrap heap . |
| 2 | A jury had earlier convicted Duncan of assaulting Andrew Clarkson by punching him on the head and body to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement . |
| 3 | A NURSING home boss punished teenage girl workers by spanking them on the bottom , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 4 | We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea . |
| 5 | Ferguson may be stupidly obstructing his development by playing him on the right , where he does not cross the ball so well : - ) Kev . |
| 6 | He also hopes to exploit the Burke 's name by reproducing it on the labels of clarets , burgundies and champagnes . |
| 7 | This article explains how you can rapidly increase your finds rate by putting yourself on the saddle of an imaginary bicycle and travelling back in time to the turn-of-the-century . |
| 8 | Apparently , you almost scared the band off the idea of a musical career by lecturing them on the evils of the business side of the industry … |
| 9 | The workshops mentioned later in the chapter may provide a hub for the self-directed learning by basing them on the problem(s) . |
| 10 | He embraces suicide as deed , as the one true act in a false world , as supreme podvig , as feat to end feats , God-killing , god-making ; and in doing so he exemplifies , as others before and Ivan Karamazov after him , the truth that Dostoevsky can only satisfy his hunger for crisis and clarity by bestowing it on the enemy . |
| 11 | All I did was to congratulate Mark by patting him on the thigh , ’ said Roger Hoad . |
| 12 | He claimed he had taken the measurements of Eclipse during life , and wished to satisfy his curiosity by trying them on the dead subject . |