Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rebecca 's body has already rejected two kidneys , and she has to rely on a daily cocktail of drugs |
| 2 | He has lived on a collective farm in Ukraine since 1945 but was flown back to France by a French television station . |
| 3 | The anthropologist 's appetite for information and his curiosity are boundless , and he is naturally particularly attracted by those avenues of inquiry where the answers come hard , suggesting that he has touched on a sensitive and hence significant vein . |
| 4 | Bob Murray , Sunderland 's chairman , has stressed again this week that Malcolm Crosby has no guarantee of permanently securing the job he has held on a temporary basis since Denis Smith 's sacking in December . |
| 5 | Since then , it has survived on a one-off grant from the Scottish Office and money donated by private trusts , but these too have run out . |
| 6 | But , despite the fact that it has capitalised on an unproven reputation ever since , it was not so much health which eventually transformed Brighton as royal patronage and high fashion in which the exercises of the spa served largely as a formal excuse for other , equally demanding , pleasures . |
| 7 | Pinchbeck considers a visible presence important and has already made several trips to the platform , something he intends to do on a regular basis . |
| 8 | He remembers sitting on a hard seat , among a hundred other candidates in a large , impressively ancient room , scribbling a General Essay paper for three hours on EITHER Political Necessity OR ‘ Enrichissez-vous ! ’ not at all sure what the examiners would be looking for in the answers — their ideas or his ideas , or the former subtly disguised as the latter , or the latter masquerading as the former . |
| 9 | Messerschmitt is developing another bogie , with controlled slip and with wheel profiles designed for high speeds , which it hopes to test on a new inter-city experimental train at 350 km/h . |
| 10 | It is a problem which has occupied the minds of those whom Canon Roger Lloyd has dubbed ‘ station saunterers ’ ( ‘ the railway lover counts no time wasted which he spends sauntering on a good station ’ ) . |
| 11 | On the amendment side I am reluctant it does infringe on a local democracy but I agree with the Liberal Democrats , it 's a way forward and it 's a responsibility of all of us I I agree with Roger when he mentioned that Professor mentioned that this is the Labour party like usually always mentioned it is your budget when the budget is approved it is the whole county council budget every member should be responsible for it . |
| 12 | He promises to pay on a definite date . |
| 13 | Well I think that it 's gone on a long time and it 's not |