Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing . |
| 2 | either that or banging his head on the wall ! |
| 3 | But United 's trip to Hillsborough today will provide Fergie with a more revealing test of Cantona 's mettle , because Wednesday fans are unlikely to have forgiven or forgotten his walkout on the Owls 11 months ago . |
| 4 | there is only one exception : if a wife owns the property or has her name on the rent book or has the property because of her job , her husband is regarded as the head of household , provided that he is resident ( our italics ) . |
| 5 | They are employed by multinational companies which , during this period of structural change , have organized or reorganized their production on a worldwide basis with different parts of the production process carried out in different countries . |
| 6 | The criticisms have fallen into certain categories , one general line being that the service has failed to adopt modern methods of management , that it has been slow in understanding the use of statistical information and of specialized knowledge of the social services , and that it does not think ahead enough or organize its planning on a sufficiently systematic basis , in part because officials spend too much time on routine departmental work . |
| 7 | He declined to explain why or to give his name on the telephone . |
| 8 | 11 Do n't allow yourself to be dominated by the student who always knows , or thinks he knows , the answer or who is always asking you questions or giving his opinion on the state of the world . |
| 9 | By day it 's very much a ‘ let's get a sunlounger and lie on the sand ’ sort of resort and the sandy beach is well equipped with everything you 'll need in the way of bars , restaurants and shade , and there are several places to waterski , windsurf and parascend or try your hand on the wet bikes . |
| 10 | When they are supposed to be arguing about the rider or scrawling their name on the walls , they sit quietly down and start replying to fan letters , or in Solowka 's case , it 's off with the flat-cap and out with the calculator . |
| 11 | As Richard Neustadt puts it , ‘ When one man shares authority with another , but does not gain or lose his job on the other 's whim , his willingness to act upon the urging of the other turns on whether he conceives the action right for him . ’ |
| 12 | When the driver pushes the throttle button or puts his foot on the pedal , there is none of the usual mechanical linkage there to swing into action . |
| 13 | The serial strategy involved thinking of or placing your finger on an imaginary scale and moving backwards and forwards along that scale as adjectives were successively read out until a final impression was reached ; ‘ after the first adjective I rated the person in my head , then moved backwards or forwards along the scale after each attribute ’ or ‘ 1 . |
| 14 | It may be argued that this is an appropriate restriction , since the law catches only those who disseminate or broadcast their propaganda on a wide scale , and not those whose correspondence is entirely private . |
| 15 | In the centre of the island are the fire mountains — dormant volcanoes — where the temperature is 400 degrees a few feet below the surface , and you can find a restaurant that grills your steak on the native rock . |
| 16 | It encourages individuals to make a personal pledge to change their lives in a way that minimises their impact on the environment — each of the eight pledges shown here will make a real difference . |
| 17 | No she was the one , that put her finger on the bows , when they tied the bows , you know . |
| 18 | War on Want are er for a long time have been the only probably the only erm that put their neck on the block as far as social and environmental aspects of the party go . |
| 19 | The commission for a new tomb for the philosopher , to replace the simple stone that marks his grave on the Catalan coast , had been given to the Israeli artist Dani Karavan in 1989 by the Arbeitskreis Selbständiger Kulturinstitut and was to be financed to the tune of DM1 million by the German Foreign Ministry . |
| 20 | You should also note that stating your availability on a particular date will not lead to the Clerk automatically marking you down as a member of a Committee . |
| 21 | The salt itself , even at high dose ( 5% ) in my experience , has little effect on the flukes other than to weaken their hold on the fish . |
| 22 | All these books have strengths that justify their place on the library shelf and on every reading list on the history of seventeenth-century science . |
| 23 | 1.21 In chapter 7 we rework and develop our rationale on the place of literature in the English curriculum 5 to 16 . |
| 24 | We parked in the small village of Marloes and planned our route on the map . |
| 25 | Jim , seated , or perched on his chair , could not settle , but got up and stumbled about , laughing helplessly , or sat and laid his head on the table and laughed , sounding as if he wept , then in an excess of happiness and gratitude , banged his two fists on either side of his head , which banging turned into a little sharp jubilant rhythm . |
| 26 | ‘ Shall we sit here ? ’ asked David gently , and laid his jacket on the grass . |
| 27 | He went up and clapped my master on the shoulder . |
| 28 | She brushed the white flowers and wiped her hand on the earth . |
| 29 | He clattered his knife and fork down on the empty plate and wiped his mouth on a brown napkin made from recycled paper . |
| 30 | He made that noise that men who drink beer make , and wiped his mouth on the back of his wrist . |