Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] on the [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 Their worthlessness is discovered only when the duped client attempts to sell them on the legitimate market .
3 You connect them and they have arrangement with funeral directors to get them on the cheap .
4 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 .
5 , ‘ Other Cattle ’ market manager , has just completed a national roadshow around all the sales teams to brief them on the new range .
6 Treatment is refused on the basis that it 's a better use of resources to spend them on the young .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 He 's probably counting on family connections to get you on the cheap !
10 Putting them up in the wires and other men putting them on the hot plates to fire .
11 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 .
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