Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet if not all of them necessarily regarded Cnut with disfavour on his accession , it is likely that there were quarters in which he had to face considerable initial hostility . |
| 2 | It was a staple of the revenge tragedy as Kyd , Tourneur or Shakespeare conceived it , and plays by Dekker , Lyly , Webster , Ford and Middleton all made use of madness on stage , and of actors specially trained for the parts of madmen . |
| 3 | Hercule Poirot did not spring fully-formed into life on Page 34 of his first adventure , The Mysterious Affair at Styles . |
| 4 | Occasionally it can be achieved by two very different people who may not see eye to eye on a lot of things , but who are determined to try to respect and understand each other for the sake of the man they both love . |
| 5 | His argument was that the Church of Ireland was ‘ poisoned by ecumenism ’ and as such he , as a Free Presbyterian , could not take part in fund-raising on its behalf . |
| 6 | The man has ninety-one previous convictions , but was released because he had already spent time in jail on remand . |
| 7 | The man has ninety-one previous convictions , but was released because he had already spent time in jail on remand . |
| 8 | The CB must somehow involve obedience to instruction on the grounds that Chris can not have a tantrum while doing as he is told . |
| 9 | In two days ' time ( 7th May ) , it would be the forty-fifth anniversary of the final German surrender in the Second World War though the cease-fire was not to take effect until midnight on 8th May . |
| 10 | The zonal administrators would co-ordinate policies and plans , thus reducing pressure of work on ministries in Thimphu . |
| 11 | You could also hear music at home on a wind-up gramophone with ten- or twelve-inch 78 r.p.m. bakelite records . |
| 12 | Then I moved BOTH point cam into position on the left side . |
| 13 | In addition to doubts about the contracting process , we also take issue with Ham on his singling out of underfunding as the major problem for the future of the NHS . |
| 14 | School dragged on for month after month , year after year , with Rebecca Salmon going up to collect prize after prize on Speech Day . |
| 15 | Lorenz had his model restored and it now takes pride of place on his writing desk , decorated in the colours of the aircraft flown by Helmut Lennartz also formerly of III/JG7 . |
| 16 | Thus some courts have reasoned on the hypothesis that if an issue is deemed to be one of law then this must inevitably involve substitution of judgment on their part . |
| 17 | In a while we had drawn close enough to sight the planet itself — a slowly enlarging spot of brightness on the ceptor screens — by which time Posi had contacted the spaceport . |
| 18 | In presidential elections held on Nov. 8 , 1988 , the Republican Party candidate and then Vice-President , George Bush , defeated his Democratic Party rival Mike Dukakis ; he duly took office as President on Jan. 20 , 1989 . |
| 19 | He said the management at the site had n't given permission for welding on the oil tank . |
| 20 | Had they conceded the truth of Mrs. Morgan 's amply corroborated testimony instead of challenging it and simply argued belief in consent on the basis of her husband 's assertions as to her sexual proclivities , they might have been believed . |
| 21 | ‘ I had the impression that you did n't see eye to eye on how the club should be run . ’ |
| 22 | These two tasks completed , the exposed pith was cut into narrow strips like ribbons , which were then placed side by side on a large , perfectly-flat slab of limestone which was kept permanently damp by boys scattering water on it , ever-moving fingers flicking across from earthenware pots . |
| 23 | Erm by the city in the city institutions of London he 's seen as quite a a robust character but they do n't quite see eye to eye on the issues of the company . |
| 24 | well that 's what I wan na know , that 's right , that 's all I wan na know , never give way to traffic on the , on the right , you could pull out on it , if indicating |
| 25 | My wife and I could never see eye to eye on the business of living . |
| 26 | While the statutory grounds of attack do not specifically mention error of law on the face of the record , later courts have given the formula a broad interpretation . |
| 27 | At the top of the pile was a beautifully typed essay from Sheikh on the causes of the English Civil War . |