Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sien came in to see him on visiting days , and she was keeping an eye on the studio . |
| 2 | ‘ They decided not to use it on this trip because opening it might disrupt the passengers . |
| 3 | So it was a husband 's sacred duty not to refuse her on that day even if he were practising celibacy . |
| 4 | Antibodies are proteins which , once synthesized by cells of the immune system to counter and inactivate ‘ foreign ’ molecules , enable the body to retain the ‘ memory , for the intruder and hence the capacity rapidly to inactivate it on subsequent invasion . |
| 5 | The need for improved facilities for Arts and Social Studies , as an aid to the recruitment and retention of academic staff and to assist in the improvement of research activity , has caused the University to launch a review or three sites ( namely the area around the St Cross Building , the central site surrounding the Bodleian Library , and the Taylorian/Ashmolean site ) to see what scope there is for the rationalisation of existing uses and what changes can be made to make better use of them , with a view to defining a comprehensive and coherent scheme for the development of each site which has most to commend it on academic grounds . |
| 6 | She reached up now to kiss him on both cheeks . |
| 7 | At a more specific level there were matters like the involvement with the Military College at Shrivenham , where students were military employees and where the College wished the students to handle security classified material in their courses and possibly even to examine them on classified material . |
| 8 | " Nenna , I was just about to ring you on that number I called before , from Frankfurt . " |
| 9 | In that task I am assisted by a team of six managers , all of whom are professional nurses and district nurses or health visitors and they of course are there to advise me on professional issues , and to share with me the management task of using the resources of Oxford City in the way that we feel is best appropriate , and in doing that , I think one of the important things for us to do , I do n't think we do it quite as well as we should , is to work more closely with the local council , and to look really at what the needs of our local communities are for health , and to try and make sure that the feelings that might well be expressed by individuals , either individually , or through caring associations , or through other statutory agencies , or through voluntary health organisations , are actually given a chance to be there , and to influence our , that official policy and constituents , and to , to influence the planning process . |
| 10 | It was an exquisitely warm afternoon in Aswan-just the sort of day for which the swallows fly so far , When the Shah walked slowly down from the plane , looking drawn and exhausted , Sadat stepped forward to kiss him on both cheeks — despite advice from his officials that he should be more circumspect with the fallen King . |