Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | for their part , the British did not see the Canadian proposal as much of a compromise , and indeed seemed already to have given up on the conference . |
| 2 | I suggest that the Secretary of State take a little time to read our new document , ’ London : a strategy for transport ’ , which might help him and his colleagues to get sorted out on the need for better transport in the capital city . |
| 3 | So far , the tabloids only seem to have picked up on the claim that couples using brain machines together have better sex . |
| 4 | So far , the tabloids only seem to have picked up on the claim that couples using brain machines together have better sex . |
| 5 | One single man lived in lodgings and his landlady was in the habit of putting in a pudding basin the lunch she had prepared for that day , for him to have warmed up on the morrow . |
| 6 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 7 | The object of the game from here is to get established out on the left on the slab , but a swine of a bulge bars access to it . |