Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In trying to analyse the reasons for conferring upon the management of the company substantial power to run the company the law has relied heavily on a variety of conceptions of the company . |
| 2 | I was asked to refit some buttons which has come apart on a settee cushion . |
| 3 | Other than the exemptions described above , tax has to be paid on any capital gain that has built up on an asset you give away during your lifetime . |
| 4 | Dick Allan 's charge , a useful hurdler rated in the mid 120s , has crept in on a mark of 86 over fences after an unenterprisingly-ridden second at Catterick . |
| 5 | In the last couple of years , Paul Merton has emerged from a tidal wave of British comic talent , that swelled at the beginning of the Eighties and continues to rain all around us , and has done so on a laugh raft all of his own . |
| 6 | All of which tends to confirm a belief that General Holomisa has advanced far on a scheme to forge an informal alliance with Mr Mandela and his organisation , the African National Congress . |
| 7 | It has touched briefly on a number of activities which all contribute to better staff utilisation . |
| 8 | Violence has erupted again on an estate which has been plagued by joyriders . |
| 9 | Most analysts have now cut their first quarter forecast , and the views now range from a loss of 64 cents a share to a profit of eight cents — and David Wu of S G Warburg has gone out on a limb with forecast $0.80 a share loss . |
| 10 | OR when a gate has swung back on a horse rapping its knees or trapping its foot . |
| 11 | As a former tough-tackling centre-back with Stoke , Smith has worked overtime on a City defence that has lost heavily at Millwall and Brentford in the past month . |
| 12 | Iris Murdoch 's fiction has centred rather on a search for goodness , most often by means of loving relationships ; Amis 's with a sense of decorum and indecorum — with social habits and rules made , altered and broken by the changing generations . |
| 13 | SHELL has lost out on an oil bonanza worth at least £1 billion through a decision to cut its stake in exploration territory west of Shetland . |
| 14 | The group has splashed out on a string of new programmes to be shown when it takes over from Thames next month . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's gone out on a customer 's boat … ’ |