Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [verb] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows that we see no case for placing it on the semi-statutory footing proposed by the select committee . |
| 2 | Trials for the signalling system have been accelerated as BR examines the feasibility of introducing it on the entire 11,000-mile network . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry I kissed you earlier , but I swear on the Bible I 've no intention of ravishing you on the kitchen floor before supper — or any other time . ’ |
| 4 | Partly in the hope of keeping himself on the straight and narrow — you 'd be surprised how many gay men do that — and partly because he thought it would do his career a bit of good . |
| 5 | ‘ But actually , being in that situation really helped to develop my ear , because a guy would come for a lesson and ask me to show him a lick from some song or other , which kind of put me on the spot ! |
| 6 | Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made . |
| 7 | Using sharp needles and ink , they were in the act of tattooing something on the girl 's back . |
| 8 | He 'd then possibly forgotten these dreams or fantasies and then when the stimulus of feeling something on the back of his neck happened to him whilst asleep , suddenly the fantasy came back , all as a piece as it were , and it occurred to me that your dream about driving off viaducts might be caused by being asleep , having one of these falling experiences , then relating it to previous thoughts you 'd had , you know on the freeway or something , oh my God , how awful it would be if I , if I drove off that bend below , do you know what I mean ? |
| 9 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 10 | The applicants accepted that the justices had jurisdiction to make such an order but contended that they had erred in law in making it on the facts of this case . |
| 11 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 12 | So they just sort of put it on the market to see if it would sell ? |
| 13 | I sort of pummelled him on the chest , that was all . |
| 14 | If this damn war ever starts , chaps like me will be , must be , uncompromising about decisions to the point of making them on the spot . |
| 15 | But I am content to rest my conclusion in rejecting it on the simple ground , which closely reflects the reasoning I have already deployed in rejecting the board 's construction of section 18 , that the words in subsection ( 2 ) ‘ an order for payment … to the unassisted party … of the costs incurred by him in the proceedings ’ can only apply to costs incurred by the unassisted party in his capacity as such . |
| 16 | ‘ It was a fifty-fifty chance of saving someone on the verge of death , ’ one source close to the surgeons said . |
| 17 | Er the chance of rejecting everything on the table , well he 's now taking it back and he accepts the point , the point about the Regional Policy and he accepts the point about a National Policy . |
| 18 | He completed it about the end of 1839 , and quickly mastered the art of riding it on the rough country roads , so that he was soon accustomed to making the fourteen-mile journey to Dumfries in less than an hour . |
| 19 | It is a skilled exercise which needs careful instruction and supervision before attempting it on the approach with full airbrake . |
| 20 | We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea . |
| 21 | Ferguson may be stupidly obstructing his development by playing him on the right , where he does not cross the ball so well : - ) Kev . |
| 22 | He also hopes to exploit the Burke 's name by reproducing it on the labels of clarets , burgundies and champagnes . |
| 23 | There is nothing clear-cut or standardised about it ; but one may envisage ( and sometimes see quite clearly in real life ) the difference in effect between that of divorce when the child is still at the stage of total reliance on the mother , perhaps with fierce submerged conflict with the male parent , and that taking place when the boy is at the age of modelling himself on the father and establishing male identity through him . |
| 24 | This article explains how you can rapidly increase your finds rate by putting yourself on the saddle of an imaginary bicycle and travelling back in time to the turn-of-the-century . |
| 25 | Apparently , you almost scared the band off the idea of a musical career by lecturing them on the evils of the business side of the industry … |
| 26 | The workshops mentioned later in the chapter may provide a hub for the self-directed learning by basing them on the problem(s) . |
| 27 | She had not visited Jackdaw Cottage since putting it on the market two months ago . |
| 28 | ELVIS GORDON , the unpredictable heavyweight , saved the best throw of the British Open at Crystal Palace for the final when he lifted 125kg Frenchman Jerome Dreyfus five feet into the air before throwing him on the mat . |
| 29 | He embraces suicide as deed , as the one true act in a false world , as supreme podvig , as feat to end feats , God-killing , god-making ; and in doing so he exemplifies , as others before and Ivan Karamazov after him , the truth that Dostoevsky can only satisfy his hunger for crisis and clarity by bestowing it on the enemy . |
| 30 | Allowance of the defence of truth , with the burden of proving it on the defendant , does not mean that only false speech will be deterred . |