Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 2 | As it moves , the scorpion relies on information from air passing over its hairs to keep it on a straight course . |
| 3 | Their worthlessness is discovered only when the duped client attempts to sell them on the legitimate market . |
| 4 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 5 | You connect them and they have arrangement with funeral directors to get them on the cheap . |
| 6 | The school seemed cold and it was certainly dark for the main windows faced north and tall buildings surrounded it on the other three sides . |
| 7 | Enough of the worms find themselves on the tight-fitting lid so that when I open the bucket I merely have to lower the lid into my aquarium to feed the fish . |
| 8 | The idle flap of the hand again , and round the next corner was another tank , then a third , hull down in the long grass like old dogs sunning themselves on a lazy day . |
| 9 | Nature in our garden seems to stretch about as far as our three Indian runner ducks , whose sole interests in life are lettuce , bread and little things which wriggle ; and the frogs in the pond who spend summer days sunning themselves on the warm cement slabs surrounding the off-green water . |
| 10 | Fortunately , Kathleen Kenyon took pottery a little more seriously than her mentor , and her Jewry Wall report ( 1948 ) is one of the first serious efforts to use it on a large scale to date the main sequences . |
| 11 | , ‘ Other Cattle ’ market manager , has just completed a national roadshow around all the sales teams to brief them on the new range . |
| 12 | Treatment is refused on the basis that it 's a better use of resources to spend them on the young . |
| 13 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |
| 14 | One minute , Mrs Doyle was found to be going along with arrangements to play it on a nine hole course and , soon after , it was cancelled altogether . |
| 15 | For instance , yesterday he saw a funeral in a barge , fascinating — six women wrapped in coats in the boat , which the men were dragging along the canal through the heath , and the clergyman in his three-cornered hat and his breeches trailing them on the other side . |
| 16 | The French doctors started me on a long-term course of antibiotics that are commonly used in France to fight toxoplasmosis and my blood tests were stepped up to once a week . ’ |
| 17 | Although MTM 's shares rallied at the start of last week the publication by UBS Philips & Drew of an in-depth report on the state of the company 's finances started them on a downward slide again . |
| 18 | Pull up the lining to fit the size of the outer curtain and insert the curtain hooks , first into the lining tape then into the standard tape on the curtains to hang them on a conventional track . |
| 19 | He 's probably counting on family connections to get you on the cheap ! |
| 20 | Detectives say someone on the main road most have seen the rope being tied in place at about 8.30 p.m. last night . |
| 21 | The best we can do is raise our own children differently ( a project that will fail , ironically , to the extent that children model themselves on the unreconstructed adults they encounter ! ) |
| 22 | This band of gold probably originates from Egypt , where lovers wore it on the fourth finger of the right hand or ring finger . |
| 23 | Putting them up in the wires and other men putting them on the hot plates to fire . |
| 24 | The crucial power was torn from the hands of the proletariat , and within months the Bolsheviks found themselves on the other side of the barricades . |
| 25 | Two other extremely good chapters include one on the granivorous genus Pogonomyrmex and the exciting area of cooperative colony foundation in Atta leafcutting ants . |
| 26 | PFR restart prompted the visit of Dr Brian Eyre , Deputy Chairman on Friday , 5th February , to meet Reactor Services employees congratulating them on the outstanding job of returning PFR to power . |