Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [noun] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least the Scots were able to bid their farewells from Suva in better heart when the result from Dublin filtered through , John Jeffrey even suggesting that the air fare back to London to appear as a pundit on television 's Rugby Special might just be worth paying to hear the reaction of some of his English chums ! |
| 2 | This condition has now cleared allowing him to work as a lecturer on City ethics and a consultant . |
| 3 | My condition for accepting the invitation to participate in a debate on IQ was that I be shown in advance any press release advertising the debate , for I feared being misrepresented . |
| 4 | With the aim of strengthening our relationships with WACC members in other regions , the region 's chairperson , Rev Hilmar Kannenberg , travelled to Angola in July of this year to participate in a conference on communication and development with the Portuguese-speaking churches of Africa . |
| 5 | She settled down to wait with a book on caving she found in his bookcase , but after a while she had to acknowledge he 'd been gone longer than she 'd expected . |
| 6 | We will continue to lobby for a ban on holiday cottages " . |
| 7 | That word ‘ insurance ’ prompted me to put in a plea on behalf of the premium-battered Ulster motorist . |
| 8 | Following BILL HICKS ' recent ‘ it does n't matter who you vote for , the government always gets it ’ rant against the American presidential campaign in these pages , we invited him to sit in a room on election night with STEPHEN DALTON and explain why he 's mellowed to the idea of Clinton |
| 9 | In the report of Plutarch and therefore ( as I believe ) of Scipio Nasica , this was an occasion for Aemilius Paulus to indulge in a lecture on Fortune . |
| 10 | The Likud government had refused to agree to a freeze on settlement construction and attempts to negotiate a compromise agreement failed [ see p. 38787 ] . |
| 11 | Editor , — The Today radio programme has reported that police surgeons or forensic medical examiners are to call for a ban on methadone for prisoners in police custody . |
| 12 | It gives him a far freer hand than other techniques in the description of long , curving lines , which are , for example , difficult to execute with a stylus on metal . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've made an offer to the club to pay for a player on loan myself , ’ said Shilton . |
| 14 | Shilton had said earlier : ‘ I have made an offer to the club to pay for a player on loan myself to cover our injuries in the short term . |
| 15 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 16 | However , the Prime Minister 's statement reinforced growing disillusionment with his environmental record : in June 1992 the government rejected demands for a ban on imports of tropical timber and in October failed to push through a law on protection for endangered species . |
| 17 | Boswell 's counterpoint to this recitative divulges that among their books the Mackinnons had the shorter version of Johnson 's own Dictionary , and that , notwithstanding the merry and warm respect they received from the household , the place began to feel like a prison on account of the adverse weather . |
| 18 | The rail network has expanded over the years , and in 1976 , the Railway Inspectorate gave permission for brake van rides , steam-hauled , to operate from a platform on road three , operated by such museum stalwarts of the day as ‘ Lucy ’ , and ‘ North Western Gas Board ’ . |