Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said to Bet I said they ought to write out a cheque on the end . |
| 2 | Wilko has yet to find even a place on the bench for either of his two big-money summer buys . |
| 3 | The next night he remembered to pick up a video on the way back from work . |
| 4 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
| 5 | The Law Societies ' of England and Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have funded a team of researchers led by lecturer Dr Julian Lonbay , to draw up a report on the professional qualifications and training of lawyers , in order to help them determine how to implement the EEC Directive on a general system for the recognition of higher education diplomas awarded on completion of professional education and training of at least three years duration , which comes into force on 4 January 1991 . |
| 6 | Such a structure is particularly likely to form where a promontory on the advancing edge of the continent on the subducting plate collides with the opposing continent well before the rest of the continental margin ( Fig. 3.20(E) , ( F ) ) . |
| 7 | This is to enable us to continue to build up a database on the application of our provision in response to special needs . |
| 8 | The age of the children , their number , the ability of the wife to earn a second income at home , whilst the elder children helped run the boat , the responsibility for dependent relatives , the possibility of sharing a house : such factors governed the decision to keep up a home on the land . |
| 9 | The crisis has also forced Chancellor Norman Lamont to cut short his holiday as the Bank of England tries to stave off a run on the Pound . |
| 10 | Keegan raced away immediately after the game — reportedly to check out a striker on the continent . |
| 11 | The Open Champion described a delayed rules decision as ‘ pathetic ’ after alleging that home favourite and joint halfway leader Ernie Els had breached regulations when he used his putter to brush away a beetle on the second green . |
| 12 | Mr Izetbegovic delivered the appeal for intervention as Muslim defenders of the town of Visegrad , 75 miles south of Zvornik , threatened to blow up a dam on the Drina river and flood a large lake if they sighted Serbian territorial defence members , Tanjug news agency reported . |
| 13 | ‘ Please send me by return the length of the holes at St Andrews as I intend to lay out a course on the common next weekend , ’ wrote another . |