Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pers pn] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have you ever thought of knitting them on a larger scale ? |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Mr. Pybus , the Minister of Transport , announced in February 1932 , that the London Transport Bill was dead and he had no intention of forcing it on an unwilling House of Commons . |
| 3 | But communism abolishes eternal truths , it abolishes all religion , and all morality , instead of constituting them on a new basis : it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience . ’ |
| 4 | From the need to produce videos of Virgin artists came the idea of distributing them on a commercial basis as well through their own distribution company ; and within two years Virgin were busily developing their own , European version of MTV , Music Box . |
| 5 | I do suggest that you never lead the mare in or out without having her on a lungeing cavesson and rope or a bridle with reins … a headcollar and rope is INSUFFICIENT . |
| 6 | My dear George YOU WILL not thank me for congratulating you on a lucky escape . |
| 7 | The Movement came to her aid by sending her on a secretarial course and finding her a part-time job with a City accountant . |