Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] a [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked forward rather selfishly to a quiet evening at home surrounded by familiar objects , perhaps reading or listening to a concert on the wireless . |
| 2 | She could either step off the pavement or walk with a clang on an iron hatch she was sure would cave in one day and she 'd be deep underground and lost forever . |
| 3 | It illustrates the fact that the child is puzzled or confused about a subject on which he should have had reasonably clear instruction as soon as he was old enough to be taught anything at all . |
| 4 | There is a world of difference between ham that has been sliced from the bone or cut from a joint on a machine and the pre-packaged wet and tasteless substance that so many people believe to be ham . |
| 5 | On the other hand , you may want something sturdy enough to take a growing baby on frequent weekends away , or to double as a playpen on trips to friends , which will make your investment really worthwhile . |
| 6 | Information about these processes does not disappear however , but is stored by the Mail System and can be displayed on the screen or sent to a file on the directory from which LIFESPAN is being accessed , to be read at a more convenient time . |
| 7 | Ideally , the carrier should be easy to attach to the kiteline , either by capstan fitting , as shown for the camera carrier on page 75 , or held by a stop on the line with pigs ' tail wire wound links that allow the line to be worked into the central core . |
| 8 | I was n't quite sure whether the little girl who volunteered the world ‘ slim ’ was being personal or not , but at least that led into a discussion on diet . |
| 9 | Whatever it is about the cuckoo 's gape that acts like a drug on the host 's nervous system , it must have originated as a genetic mutation . |
| 10 | However , rather than leading to a debate on the nature and aims and purpose of English studies , the Cambridge Crisis generated , on the one hand , a defence of pluralism , and , on the other , a retrenchment in the name of the unique value of the English classics . |
| 11 | We climbed for an hour-and-a-half and I can tell you that going up a mountain on skins is not as easy as it looks . |
| 12 | It was George who encouraged Lucy at the start of her career — a career that began with a typewriter on the kitchen table at the couple 's council house in Derby . |
| 13 | He snatched the trousers and sweater that hung from a hanger on the wall , and threw them at her , the gesture violent . |
| 14 | When I started to think about these things I was in a position to interpret this way of living and eating as a variation on the spending patterns of poverty described in Booth 's and Rowntree 's surveys ; but now I think it was the cheapness of it that propelled the practice . |
| 15 | 25–9–1897 The Session had under consideration the subject of having a half yearly Communion and arranged for a service on 7th November . |
| 16 | This , coupled with a return to high monthly inflation , precipitated fears of growing economic and political instability and led to a run on the austral and the resignation on Jan. 28 of the Economy Minister [ see p. 37959 ] . |
| 17 | When at last my number came , I presented myself at the window and asked for a ticket on the 10.05 to Stockholm the next morning . |
| 18 | Cheeky Paula produced a sprig of mistletoe and asked for a peck on Channel 4 's Big Breakfast Show . |
| 19 | Indenbaum remembered that he was gentle , with a beatific smile , and asked for a tune on the harmonium … |
| 20 | The painting of the Virgin blessing Christ before the Passion by Urbino was once popular with newly-wedded couples who knelt before it and asked for a blessing on their marriage . |
| 21 | Sebokeng was declared an " unrest area " and placed under a curfew on Jan. 13 , as police announced the arrest of 10 men in connection with the incident . |
| 22 | We decided to halt the nonsense and stopped for a sandwich on a picturesque rocky outcrop that provided views east and west along the glen , and over to spectacular Knoydart . |
| 23 | The action came despite bitter opposition from hardline conservatives who said that the treaty favoured the USA and amounted to a present on " a silver platter " for the US president-elect Bill Clinton . |
| 24 | Look straight ahead as if gazing at a place on a wall . |
| 25 | The name Empire Flying-boat rings with nostalgia and is linked forever with exotic destinations , superb food , attentive service and surfing to a halt on one of Africa 's great lakes or the brilliant waters of a tropical sea . |
| 26 | Percy Wood was appointed senior labour master in 1933 , and lived in a cottage on a site now occupied by the boilerhouse . |
| 27 | This is to be found to the west of the town and starts from a point on the A.16 . |
| 28 | Wrapped or bagged round bale silage is shredded and discharged through a chute on the Teagle Tomahawk feeder . |
| 29 | It gathers detritus ( wood , and other forms of cellulose ) which it carries into the heart of its giant nests , and uses as a substrate on which to cultivate fungi , on which it feeds . |
| 30 | Unless firm steps are taken , the traditional residents of inner city areas are likely to become even more peripheral to mainstream national life and act as a drain on national economic growth rather than a resource contributing to it . |