Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun prp] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Robertson told the second and final day of a hearing by the board 's video appeal committee that St Theresa was portrayed in mystical ecstasy — using pain to place herself at the mercy of her subconscious and thereby contemplate Jesus on the Cross . |
| 2 | And Allison revealed : ‘ Ekstrom only joined Gothenburg on the understanding that he is allowed to talk to other clubs interested in buying him . |
| 3 | Uncle Mick stood up ; so did Denis on the altar . |
| 4 | If not does it mean that we only have Dorigo on the left . |
| 5 | it 's not got Vich on the end of it , it 's Sloberdan Vich |
| 6 | ‘ I 've just had Henri on the line again , still being as hopelessly impossible as ever . |
| 7 | Chester , who was soon to accompany Coleridge on the journey into Europe , was yet another who had been drawn to him ‘ as flies are to honey ’ , and now trotted happily beside his two talkative companions , bow-legged and awestruck . |
| 8 | Abse has not put Thatcher on the analyst 's couch , and does not pretend to have done so . |
| 9 | Outhalf Michael Barnes finally put Portadown on the scoreboard with a penalty which Barnes he converted with ease bringing the home side more into the picture . |
| 10 | IF you want to start the game on the trickier second quest in The Legend Of Zelda on the NES , just enter Zelda on the name screen instead of your own . |
| 11 | But it does seem possible that Georgina purposely waylaid Arabella on the day before she died , and that the two of them had a row . |
| 12 | And I always watched Wimbledon on the telly , even if it was just to see the lady players in those short skirts ( apart from old ‘ muscles ’ Navratilova ! ) . |
| 13 | You can usually spot Reeves on the programme by his larded-on northern accent . |
| 14 | I said that they can hardly ask Lee on the box if big nose really fucked his wife . |
| 15 | Herodotus ' History can be seen as a sermon on the text that Spartans and Persians , even in their great period of conflict , gradually came to value each other 's qualities:2 at first ( Hdt. i.153 ) Cyrus the Great scoffs at the Greeks who come together in a market-place to cheat each other ; by the end , the exiled Spartan king Demaratos is shown ( vii.104 ) lecturing a clearly impressed Xerxes on the subject of Spartan deference to law . |
| 16 | Leys also cites Marx on the subject of the relationship between the existence of a smallholding peasantry and a centralized , authoritarian government . |
| 17 | The work of SPSG is monitored through a Programme Advisory Committee which also advises ESRC on the funding of research in science studies and science policy . |
| 18 | She helped Jenna out and they could both hear Alain on the phone in another room . |
| 19 | ‘ When we got back , that fool of a gendarme practically arrested Dieter on the spot . |
| 20 | The Collector had gone up to join Ford on the roof because he wanted to be in a position from which he could give the order to retreat at the right moment ; in his own mind there was no doubt but that he would have to give it sooner or later . |
| 21 | That evening a knock — furtive and hasty , telling Alice who it was — brought her out to find Monica on the path near the gate , not outside the door , for the girl had been afraid that Faye might open the door . |
| 22 | Kate often joins Nigel on the set when he 's working . |
| 23 | Lady Diana 's engagement to Prince Charles really put Althorp on the map , and it became a full-time job for me . |
| 24 | He now pushed Joe on the shoulder , and Joe said , ‘ You 're a very lucky man having a wife and a mother who like each other , besides doting on you . ’ |
| 25 | Kaifu reportedly advised Singh on the need to liberalize the Indian economy . |
| 26 | ‘ Ruth , darling , you did n't … you did n't tell Steve on the way here that … that the child was … was mine ? ’ |
| 27 | He looks so miserable that for once I do n't kick Heather on the way back to my desk . |
| 28 | He even patted Nick on the head and called him ‘ Young Nicodemus ’ , which amazed Nick so much he sat with his mouth hanging open and barely touched the roast meat on his plate . |
| 29 | ’ He then went on to congratulate Nichols on the job he was doing . |
| 30 | I let two more minutes pass then tap Des on the shoulder . |