Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After completing its work on the Newsom Report , the Central Advisory Council was reconstituted under the chairmanship of Lady Plowden , and turned its attention to primary schools . |
| 2 | Mr Nicholls , 30 , a telecom network engineer from Warrington , went on to Slioch last Thursday , then spent most of the week wrapped in a polythene survival bag after twisting his ankle on the summit . |
| 3 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |
| 4 | After hearing his name on the radio , he had thought it must be just bravado on Paul Lexington 's part , the young producer falling into cliche , insisting that the show must go on when all logic showed it was impossible . |
| 5 | During this time they absorbed the Chinese imperial system and Confucian philosophy , but after winning their freedom on the collapse of the Tang dynasty they flourished as an independent nation . |
| 6 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 7 | Making notes is the best way of keeping your mind on the task at hand . |
| 8 | His bill was intended to deprive the debtor of the power of insulting his creditor on the one hand and to restrain the creditor from tyrannizing over his debtor on the other . |
| 9 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 10 | A reflective dream of my own occurred when I was in the midst of writing my doctorate on the role of REM sleep in consolidation of memories . |
| 11 | They can therefore be visualized as potential cellular automata capable of imprinting their pattern on the surrounding body fluids . |
| 12 | Indeed , there was an attitude of ignoring our welfare on the part of the authorities . |
| 13 | It is Miss Havisham 's way of getting her revenge on the male sex as it was a man who broke her heart , all those years ago , when she was abandoned on the day of her wedding . |
| 14 | So had Nicol perceptibly brightened , though rather with the hope of getting his revenge on the devils who had tumbled him from the wagon , and threatened his companions with steel and arrows . |
| 15 | Under the old DHSS cohabitation ruling , beleaguered by years of criticism from welfare workers and the women 's movement , women who had male friends , family or lovers around ran the risk of losing their benefit on the grounds that these men were or should be maintaining them . |
| 16 | He had dreamt the night before of losing his walking-stick on the current of a stream . |
| 17 | So what he does now he always comes in over the top , so every time you see John shake hands with anybody he 'll always do that and come in over the top actually I 'm in charge and he sort of er sort of stamps his authority on the individual . |
| 18 | ‘ Alex is thinking of putting his flat on the market . ’ |
| 19 | He had a sure knack of putting his finger on the heart of matters under discussion , and of asking questions which helped to clarify planning and decisions . |
| 20 | He proved incapable of imposing his leadership on the political system and he failed to bring about significant public policy change . |
| 21 | George Stacey is charged with murdering Christine Campbell on the 19 of November , Martin Stacey with concealing her body on the same date . |
| 22 | He lost no time in stamping his mark on the School : in his first report to the Governors he noted that |
| 23 | In what appeared to be a concerted campaign by the criminal justice authorities to prevent a fourth acquittal , Gotti 's previously successful defence lawyer was prohibited from representing his client on the grounds that he was peripherally involved in some of the evidence to be presented by the prosecution . |
| 24 | Remembering what he had taught her , she commanded her eyes to meet his yet again before replacing her glass on the table . |
| 25 | But that will only happen if and when holidaymakers use their consumer power to insist that hotels , tour operators and international airlines take an active role in minimising their impact on the environment . |
| 26 | Duke had had difficulty in getting his name on the ballot in many states . |
| 27 | One of the key arguments in defending its position on the school timetable must be the 1988 Education Reform Act itself which should not be lost sight of among the more immediate problems of implementation . |
| 28 | Before giving his information on the Czech team 's tactics , he hedges twice ( I realize it 's none of my business ' and " … you may think I " m an absolute ass , but … " ) , apologising in advance for giving them potentially faulty advice and for threatening their negative face , while at the same time criticising ( in Leechian terms , " maximising the dispraise of " ) himself for doing so ( p. 59 ) . |
| 29 | Since my return I have been busily employed in recommencing my work on the Birds of Australia … |
| 30 | Pancho has witnessed players he believed were thwarted in achieving their apogee on the tennis court . |