Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [to-vb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I could n't close my fingers to pull on the water after an hour . ’ |
| 2 | This has not prevented accusations that Bantam shamefully exploited my illness and that I cooperated with this by allowing my picture to appear on the cover . |
| 3 | It is not my job to comment on the policy of the County Council . |
| 4 | The Institute of Investment Management and Research ( IIMR , formerly the Society of Investment Analysts ) has set up a sub-committee under my chairmanship to decide on the calculation of an earnings figure which can be used for the per-share calculation and for price/earnings ratios . |
| 5 | I got my staff to check on the Charlotte T. , and found that she had sailed the day after Andrew Stavanger wrote his letter . |
| 6 | We closed rapidly and I opened fire at about 800 yards sighting a little high at first to allow for the distance and then dropping my bead to centre on the machine . |
| 7 | It was my lot to live on the desert fringes where the rubbish lay . |
| 8 | Taking positive action and pleasing ourselves helps to capitalise on the advantage of retiring on our own . |
| 9 | The slow deliberacy with which the wife commences her reply , with not a hint of offence in her reaction but rather a hint of care in selecting the right mode of reply , emphasizes her willingness to converse on the topic : So does her subsequent appropriation of a rhetorical device , the occupatio , a statement emphasized by the speaker feigning unwillingness or lack of freedom to express it : The monk too takes a moment 's pause before replying : again seeming to digest the implications of the wife 's words , or ( and ? ) to express , silently but with an eloquent action , astonishment at the wife 's ready invitation to him to continue to converse on this topic . |
| 10 | The unwary movement caused her foot to slip on the footpath made muddy by the overnight rain . |
| 11 | One of the events which shook her most of all was the occasion upon which her mother gave her permission to go on the school trip to Paris . |
| 12 | This demonstrated the importance of family factors in determining the occupational choice of rural school-leavers — nearly 42 per cent of the respondents stated that they had been influenced by their family in their decision to work on the land . |
| 13 | Wilson saw she was being watched , closely studied , and dropped her eyes to concentrate on the jacket she was making for Pen . |
| 14 | The Independent has recently taken delivery of 65 laptops fitted with the software for their journalists to use on the move . |
| 15 | The insect also communicates through ripples , using its legs to tap on the surface of the water . |
| 16 | He knew from long experience that a kidnapping usually meant the involvement of the Sardinian shepherds who had , over the past twenty years or so , been steadily leaving their island and bringing their flocks to graze on the hills around Florence . |
| 17 | However , John Magill , national director of accounting and audit at Touche Ross , said : ‘ We have already given the Department of Trade and Industry access to all our papers because , in our view , it is their job to investigate on the investors ' behalf , not the liquidators ' … |
| 18 | For a while , the seif-centred members of celebrity circles were falling over themselves in their eagerness to jump on the bandwagon . |
| 19 | This caution on the part of the Communists was due to their natural antipathy to the Liberal Party , their desire to concentrate on the campaign for affiliation to the Labour Party , and organizational conflicts with the People 's Front Propaganda Committee . |
| 20 | Ken Olisa , who left his position as head of Wang 's European operation shortly after the company filed for Chapter 11 is blaming the company 's problems on its failure to get on the Unix bandwagon in time : ‘ We missed the PC revolution and , having missed it , we missed everything else ’ , he says in an interview with the UK 's Computing . |
| 21 | Legs have become elongated into catapults that can propel an insect two hundred times its own body length , broad oars to row , it through water or thin hair-tipped stilts with a wide stride that enables their owners to walk on the surface of pools . |
| 22 | In a town where the council uses its powers to insist on the colour of a brick wall or to ban taxi drivers virtually for picking their nose on duty there seems nothing to prevent such a man from selling cars . |
| 23 | If your company wishes its name to appear on the cards , this can be arranged . |
| 24 | Impatience mingling with disappointment , she rang again , allowing her finger to dwell on the button for several seconds , determined to satisfy herself that the apartment was definitely unoccupied at the moment . |
| 25 | In the end , the Colonial Office took the decision to allow the P.N.M. to select two of its members to sit on the LegCo. thereby giving them victory with a clear majority . |
| 26 | 1979 Act requires the Board to identify seven of its members to serve on the UKCC . |
| 27 | She waved and then crossed her arms to lean on the fence and thus indicated to him that there was no hurry , there was nothing urgent . |
| 28 | She stretched out her hand to click on the bedside light , checked her watch , then lay back , panic subsiding , her eyes staring at the ceiling while the terrible immediacy of the dream began to fade , recognized for what it was , an old spectre returning after all these years , conjured up by the events of the night and by the reiteration of the word ‘ murder ’ which , since the Whistler had begun Iris work , seemed to murmur sonorously on the very air . |
| 29 | Most families in a village like this expect their children to work on the farm when they get older , but in this case it was different . |
| 30 | Depending , as Dufferin had so clearly perceived , for their ability to govern on the collaboration of a vast class of petty native fonctionnaires , and the political apathy of an even vaster class of ignorant peasants , they could in no way afford to see these people aroused to insubordination , even of an ostensibly peaceful kind . |