Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Trials for the signalling system have been accelerated as BR examines the feasibility of introducing it on the entire 11,000-mile network . |
| 4 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 5 | Ensure the flowers are as dry as possible before placing them on the blotting paper , as any remaining moisture will encourage mildew to form and spoil all your efforts . |
| 6 | So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Close to it at a March meeting in 1585 accusations of a theft of some Scottish spurs and counter-accusations of ‘ a pretended matter beforehand ’ began to fly to and fro , until without warning someone on the Scottish side shot and killed Russell . |
| 9 | It follows that we see no case for placing it on the semi-statutory footing proposed by the select committee . |
| 10 | The importance of locational specifications in general can be gauged from the fact that there seem to be two basic ways of referring to objects — by describing or naming them on the one hand , and by locating them on the other ( Lyons , 1977a : 648 ) . |