Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seb backed up his threat with a two-pronged pitchfork , jabbing it to within inches of Boz 's face as the gipsy placed his foot on the first rung . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the Czechoslovak government has allocated a budget to promote its position on the dam abroad . |
| 3 | The latter case found its way on the front page of the Sunday People under the headline BEAUTY QUEEN 'S LIFE OF CRIME Terrorised wife 's story . |
| 4 | Given the miserable legislative record of the Duma and its manifest inability to impose its will on the government , the policy of clinging to the Duma in the hope that popular respect for the Russian parliament would grow proved vain . |
| 5 | A pensioner walking his dog on the other side of the street quickened his pace , obviously not wanting to be there when the men in white coats came for me . |
| 6 | Stanley Kalms , the Dixons chief whose own bid for what was then called Woolworths was repulsed three years ago , said the offer document did not disguise an attempt to acquire his company on the cheap . |
| 7 | The priest banged his fist on the little table , causing the cups to jump in their saucers . |
| 8 | On Dec. 18 Bush instructed the department to reverse its decision on the grounds that it contradicted his stated intention to increase educational opportunities for minorities . |
| 9 | The brains in rock wear their disdain on the top deck , a glimpse of the ivories to warn off the unwary and make it clear that they are outsiders . |
| 10 | The brains in rock wear their disdain on the top deck , a glimpse of the ivories to warn off the unwary and make it clear that they are outsiders . |
| 11 | Religion lost its hold on the social imagination when it was seen to embody qualities opposed to science : irrationality and superstition . |
| 12 | In an attempt to repeat their success on the Irrawaddy , the Denny and Henderson families took a large stake in the La Platense Flotilla Co. in 1882 to operate river services in Argentina and Uruguay . |
| 13 | The gravitational force dominates our Universe on the large scale , binding matter into stars , stars into galaxies , and galaxies into clusters of galaxies . |
| 14 | A child , allowed to stay up and watch the ball 's beginning , stared wide-eyed from a balcony , while the Countess tapped her stick on the parquet floor in time to the music . |
| 15 | Spiral cleavage focuses our attention on the role of cell lineage in specifying pattern . |
| 16 | It was also the first opportunity at national level for the electorate to deliver its verdict on the DLP , which had been formed by Roh in January 1990 through the merger of his minority ruling party with two of the three main opposition parties [ see pp. 37187-88 ] . |
| 17 | The research continues our work on the development of the LBS model of the UK Economy . |
| 18 | He can bring an action to recover his price on the ground of a total failure of consideration . |
| 19 | The Admiralty stood its ground on the principle of always maintaining a balanced fleet , based on a limited number of capital ships , which , in 1957 , were generally agreed to be the aircraft-carriers . |
| 20 | The Queen takes her seat on the River Bus . |
| 21 | After their visit to the site in June 1898 , the Governing Committee expressed their satisfaction on the progress of work at Foxton . |
| 22 | But most of all , they have the determination to put their name on the trophy for the first time as a tribute to club president George Blower who tragically died at the end of a league game almost four weeks ago . |
| 23 | You will learn that at the age of nineteen he was practising his public speaking at Hyde Park Corner ; you will learn that he reads the Sun to keep his finger on the public pulse . |
| 24 | Less favoured designs such as Classes 25 , 40 and 45 were withdrawn completely , and the Railfreight sector relinquished its claim on the costly Class 50 . |
| 25 | There was a chance they would try to rush him , but it would take a fraction of a second to release his grip on the open clothes-peg . |
| 26 | The boy kept his glance on the floor . |
| 27 | SUN INAUGURATES ITS MULTIPROCESSING ON THE DESKTOP CAMPAIGN WITH NEW LINE , CUTS SPARCSTATION 10 TAGS |
| 28 | The next offscreen fuss around the film was caused by the attempted by The Godfather producers Paramount to block its release , claiming that Brando 's self-caricature contravened their copyright on the Vito Corleone character . |
| 29 | The sun puts its colour on the curtains |
| 30 | In the discussion document , the committee gives its opinion on the extent to which the provision of these reassurances is the responsibility of boards of directors , the extent to which it is the responsibility of external auditors and the extent to which these reassurances can not be provided by either boards of directors or external auditors . |