Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been for his desire to sound Eleanor out on the subject of Liza , he felt he could easily have done so . |
| 2 | ‘ We have not got a lot of money and we have got to just get on with the job of trying to sort things out on the field . |
| 3 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 4 | Signing the Sex Pistols , Branson reasoned , was the way to put Virgin back on the map . |
| 5 | Many favour using massed war engines to rain doom down on the enemy , while others prefer fast-moving cavalry armies able to respond to any threat . |
| 6 | The Liberal Ramsey thought that Churchill was totally wrong to put Britain back on the gold standard ; that he was illiberal over miners in the General Strike ; that he was very mistaken in resisting the advance of India to independence . |
| 7 | The recognition by IBM Corp that Microsoft Corp products are not going to go away and that it ca n't build its own personal computer world solely on OS/2 — which has led the company to decide to put NT up on the PowerPC and to do a DB2/NT version of its personal computer database is to culminate in a meeting between new IBM chief executive Louis Gerstner and Microsoft chief Bill Gates later this month to discuss areas of mutual interest , the Wall Street Journal says . |
| 8 | Similarly , while a pupil with this type of visual condition might be able to read words up on the blackboard with little difficulty , locating the words themselves could be an initial problem . |
| 9 | ‘ I knew very quickly that to get the kitchen exactly how we wanted it , we 'd have to swap rooms around on the ground floor . |
| 10 | Cards have got to go face down on the table |
| 11 | It was decided not to try to smuggle Hess out on the courier run , although the idea of making him do a parachute drop at his age seemed risky and wrong-headed to the Englishman , if not malicious . |