Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said authenticity was one thing but did my devoted fans really want to see me on the big screen with spots a foot across all over my face ? |
| 2 | ‘ Did you , as a matter of interest , happen to see me on The Human Angle last week ? ’ |
| 3 | A health clinic has stepped in to help patients who ca n't find a dentist to treat them on the National Health Service . |
| 4 | They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health . |
| 5 | When he spied his guests , he jumped to his feet and called a greeting , straightening the chairs and holding them one after the other to steady them on the uneven gravel while they sat down . |
| 6 | Their phone call came to my home in Hampstead inviting me to come to Toronto to meet them on the following Sunday . |
| 7 | You also get to know them on a personal basis too … |
| 8 | Manchester United wait on Bryan Robson 's decision on his fitness for the Rumbelows Cup Final against Nottingham Forest today , and hope to use the match to launch them on the final leg of their title procession . |
| 9 | But even before it came to public notice earlier this year , poor Mr Engholm was having to struggle to impose himself on a fractious party . |
| 10 | European civilization was the first to impose itself on the whole surface of the globe . |
| 11 | ‘ Would n't want to meet him on a dark night , ’ breathed Arthur , trying to make light of the incident . |
| 12 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 13 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 14 | You have to catch it on a certain place |
| 15 | If a particular publication is not available at your own library the librarian will almost certainly be able to obtain it on a short-term loan . |
| 16 | ‘ It must be strange , ’ she said slowly , ‘ to have been part of the Revolution and then to find yourself on the opposite side from people you fought beside . ’ |
| 17 | John and his team have already extracted considerable concessions from the Inland Revenue , which means that the majority of us will be able to continue as before , i.e. we will be able to satisfy the Inland Revenue that the majority of priests do not have the liability to tax on their income from the Church , without the need for the Inland Revenue to meet us on an individual basis . |
| 18 | ‘ Look here : that was in broad daylight over a single strand of wire , not under fire from any machine guns , and with no patrolling goon with a gun to meet us on the other side . |
| 19 | Their worthlessness is discovered only when the duped client attempts to sell them on the legitimate market . |
| 20 | As a teenager , I laughed off an incident when a nappy horse attempted to deposit me on the wrong side of the railings on a motorway bridge . |
| 21 | As rock characteristics can vary considerably over very short intervals , it is useful to be able to evaluate them on a continuous basis from log data . |
| 22 | Stretch up as if you are trying to reach something on the top shelf of the kitchen at home and you know you are going to succeed . |
| 23 | She prised Burton out of digs in Streatham to install him on the top floor of her house in Pelham Crescent — just a few doors down from Emlyn Williams . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , the rural housing problem , which affects most people in the Third World , is so immense that no government has even tried to tackle it on a national scale . |
| 25 | It is prudent , however , to set it on a level plinth , and in the case of a fountain assembly it is vital that the jet unit be just above the maximum water level . |
| 26 | In view of the answer that I have given to the first question this second question does not arise and it would be unwise for me to attempt to answer it on a hypothetical basis . |
| 27 | All that was necessary was for the porter to replace it on the wrong nail before going to Compline , and leave her its ineffective twin . |
| 28 | In other words , they have been trying to scratch themselves on the sandy bottom and get stranded by accident . |
| 29 | Usually the word is applied at the immature stage before the eye swells with rising sap , often changing colour a little — which helps to identify it on a leafless stem . |
| 30 | Classic ritual of the disappointing album : buy it at the Megastore ; go for coffee as a way of prolonging the moment of consumption , rip off the cellophane , remove the card inlay ( taking care not to tear it on the little perspex teeth ) and scan the lyrics ( Giddy-up giddy-up giddy-up whoa/My pony boy ’ — shit ! ) ; tube home ( further lyric-skimming ) ; feed it to the CD player , skip to the second track while still halfway through the first , sample that , move on , hop and jump to the end and start wondering about forthcoming birthdays — then back to the beginning in the hope that maybe it is , as we used to say , a grower . |