Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] on [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again it is up to the pilot to insist that this wing is held and not to accept someone on the upwind wing-tip . |
| 2 | Enticed by the exotic smells issuing from a nearby many-storeyed building , she crossed the threshold to find herself on the ground floor of a gourmet 's paradise . |
| 3 | After four years in the explosives division , his management potential had been spotted and moves were made to launch him on a management development programme of rotation to broaden his experience . |
| 4 | A number of nurseries are offering it now , and you are likely to find it on the plant stalls of plantsmen 's gardens open to the public . |
| 5 | About one person in two can expect to find themselves on an operating table at some time in their lives . |
| 6 | and they 've got to sell them on the waiting list |
| 7 | For instance , I wanted to feed him on the baby food in jars and I keep telling her I do , but I end up feeding him the powdered food like my mum wants . |
| 8 | We scoff at the pretentious person who buys the Tatler to exhibit it on the coffee table , so why should we not view with less than admiration the newspaper which bribes its readers to buy it for reasons other than its content ? |
| 9 | Fortunately , in this series of articles we will use more conventional maps to set us on the treasure trail , because it is my belief that correctly interpreted , the Ordnance Survey maps of the British Isles already contain most of the information necessary to track down some of the treasures that time has so cunningly concealed ! |
| 10 | Erm right just t message on secretaries clubs , going to put them on a back burner for a while then in terms of actually forming a club as such |
| 11 | The way to copy the formulas is first to put them on the entry line . |
| 12 | With the opening of the International Convention Centre the city hopes to put itself on the tourist map . |
| 13 | If we were to put you on a slimming diet providing you with 1,500 calories a day , you would be 500 calories short of your requirement and these would have to be taken from your body fat . |
| 14 | One said it was pointless to put him on a waiting list , but letters from a grain merchant 's and from Littlewood 's Pools promised to file his application and interview him when he returned home . |
| 15 | I threatened to put him on a discipline charge because whenever the drunks were turning out , you 'd find him in the station writing some trivial bike without a light . |
| 16 | It 's not that he wants to stop them going to the toilet , we 've got to persuade these people to do it on a stagger basis … |
| 17 | To use it on a fin gauge machine , the cog wheels have to be replaced with ones to fit the fine gauge . |
| 18 | SOMETHING is severely wrong with our support services if a confused woman feels that the only thing she can do with her newborn child is to leave it on a golf course in freezing conditions . |
| 19 | Then you strip it of its bark and , while the wood is still green and supple , you bend back the thin limbs and bind them in place with string , When you 've done that you have to leave it on a drying rack above the fire for … oh , I suppose about three months . |
| 20 | Another is to record it on a transparency sheet , which can then be displayed by means of an overhead projector on a screen or blank wall . |
| 21 | If you want to talk to gardeners it 's cheaper to address them on the gardening page of a newspaper or in a specialist gardening magazine than on television . |
| 22 | The four — and a sick Jon Tinker who had been unable to accompany them on the summit bid — scrambled from the disintegrating tent at 9am on Christmas Eve and fled downhill . |
| 23 | Susan trying to kiss me on the arse right and I fucking farted ! |
| 24 | ‘ Well , they would be , would n't they ? ’ she interrupted sarcastically , ‘ seeing as they were just about to send you on a spying mission ! ’ |
| 25 | The powers-that-be decide to send you on a suicide mission — nice peeps , are n't they ? |
| 26 | First we 're going to send you on a treasure hunt , collecting information from the magazine . |
| 27 | To accommodate it on the upflow tube we 've had to trim off another inch or so of piping with the hacksaw . |
| 28 | Oh I could go , used to get them on the emery wheel and er square them up with a pair of sliding gages . |
| 29 | Thus the large datasets are still there , but those who manage them are more likely to place them on a file server with appropriate network access ( Knight 1993 ) . |
| 30 | WEST HAM stalwart Tony Gale last night hit out at the club 's decision to place him on the transfer list . |