Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] on [art] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 The first occurs at the transition from the institution to independence , when the girls were often in need of help and about to launch themselves on a course in life from which it might be hard to turn back .
2 They would provide him with an army to set him on the throne in return for his establishment of a presbyterian form of church government throughout the realm .
3 cars one at a time on horse drawn flat trucks , along Canterbury Road and Mitcham Road to dump them on the site in Aurelia Road , which the company had purchased for a depôt .
4 The alternative to burying cable in the walls is to run it on the surface in mini-trunking , and then use surface-mounted light switches .
5 Although he had not definitely declared his candidacy , Perot had ignited a grassroots campaign involving the collection of the hundreds of thousands of signatures necessary to include him on the ballot in all 50 states .
6 Another method of learning to hover with the model facing you is to place it on the ground in this attitude and learn to fly again from scratch .
7 For some families breakfast can be a time when they are on a very short fuse and tensions abound , so if you can persuade her to have hers on a tray in bed , many problems may be avoided .
8 ‘ It — hmm — never was my intention to take you on the couch in my drawing-room , ’ he commented gruffly , purposely putting some daylight between them .
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