Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick Lundy stood on the street for a few moments , staring unseeing into the windows , and then he turned away and headed back up to Mayfair . |
| 2 | Herr Nordern heaved on the steering-wheel and swung the Lada into the relative safety of a narrow street shadowed by the bulk of a church where he pulled up , although wisely keeping the engine running . |
| 3 | Teller did not succeed in attracting more than a handful of Oppenheimer 's brilliant team back to Los Alamos to work on the H-bomb . |
| 4 | Tourist backpackers chattering in high tones ; theatre-/supper-goers gazing nervously at the cluster of dishevelled , ruby-faced lads who wave their cans and bawl out the rallying cry of ‘ 'Ere we go , ‘ ere we go ! ’ at alarming volume ; a comatose figure lying on the bucket seats and crying out an important but indecipherable message about some quite obvious connection betwixt Jesus and Aids ; in the corner a girl with dishevelled hair and a soiled James Dean T-shirt sprawled on the concrete and a man with bloodied chin mouthing profanities as he urinates against the wall . |
| 5 | If we bring the argument back to consent to non-fatal physical harm , we may recall that the Lord Chief Justice relied on the phrase ‘ not in the public interest ’ to justify the restrictions . |
| 6 | Environmental health officer Richard Hallows called on the public to report any rat sightings to the Pest Control Unit on . |
| 7 | Miss Vinall wrote on the back of an old envelope . |
| 8 | Richard Barnett reports on the Bank Holiday festival that seems to have taken everybody by surprise . |
| 9 | Speculation about the prospect of further divisions , and the future of the OPEC cartel as a whole , had resurfaced after Gabon 's Mines , Petroleum , Energy and Hydraulic Resources Minister Jean Ping hinted on the eve of the meeting that his country might soon follow Ecuador 's example and leave OPEC , adding that " Gabon has problems similar to Ecuador " . |
| 10 | Men from the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders berthed on the ship and on one occasion she had war scars inflicted on her when a bomb fell on Portland Place and debris rained down on the top deck gouging pieces out of the timbers . |
| 11 | Thus , the issues raised by the use of NVOCC bills remain on the agenda of the UCP revision . |
| 12 | Johnny Giles commentating on the game expressed the view , expressed by someone on the list recently , that he is only a fair weather player . |
| 13 | After half an hour or so , the two of them restored their employer to her feet , and they set off again , Miss Fergusson leaning on the guide 's arm with a strange nonchalance , as if she were being conducted round a cathedral or a zoological garden . |
| 14 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 15 | Richard Langton stood on the path outside the netting that surrounded the tennis court . |
| 16 | David Challinor reflects on the longevity of animals and plants |
| 17 | He managed lan Dury before Dury was famous , and City Lights provided the suit that David Bowie wore on the cover of ‘ Pin Ups ’ and which people were forever coming into Let It Rock trying to get copied , much to Malcolm 's chagrin . |
| 18 | Memory loss by the state Erlend Clouston reports on the difficulty people like Debbie Finni have in obtaining treatment for brain disorders like the amnesia she suffered four years ago . |
| 19 | A RECENT ISSUE OF PHOENIX MAGAZINE APPEARED ON THE NEWS STANDS WITH THREE BLANK PAGES WHERE AN ARTICLE ON THE BACKGROUND TO THE CONTROVERSIAL ACQUISITION OF A SITE IN BALLSBRIDGE BY TELECOM EIREANN , FOR £9.7 MILLION , SHOULD HAVE APPEARED , PHOENIX MAGAZINE IS PRINTED BY SMURFIT WEB PRESS , PART OF THE JEFFERSON SMURFIT GROUP OF WHICH MICHAEL SMURFIT IS CHAIRMAN , AND A DECISION WAS MADE BY THE COMPANY NOT TO PRINT THE ARTICLE AFTER LEGAL ADVICE . |
| 20 | Soon the Manston cone appeared on the port beam , and my London bobbie ( Special Branch ) steered me home via friendly beacons . |
| 21 | When school was over , Mr Trilby decided to investigate further , so he walked to the house where Miss Trunchbull lived on the edge of the village , the lovely small red-brick Georgian building known as The Red House , tucked away in the woods behind the hills . |
| 22 | The earliest formal County Record of a Henley Lady was in 1937 when Mrs. Spratt served on the Committee , she was followed by Flora Woodburn-Bamberger in 1938 who became County Vice-Captain . |
| 23 | So he sat down again and listened to the story of the Damianis , of their life in Jaffa and of how they fled in 1948 , how David Damiani stood on the stern of the ship off Jaffa port and wished he could have turned round then and gone back to his home . |
| 24 | Nobby Clarke instructed on the cat 's whisker radio . |
| 25 | The second time that Yoko Ono came on the show , it was to talk about Albert Goldman 's book on John Lennon . |
| 26 | Kathleen Lavender sat on the end of her bed and wept a few tears of fear and uncertainty and regret . |
| 27 | Ken Houston reports on the rise of the property audit . |
| 28 | The lorry set off with Chopper Harris and Frankie Albright sitting on the floor of the lorry , their arms resting on the top of the tailboard . |
| 29 | After that David Soul went on the wagon and , according to his friend and publicist Robert Palmer , ‘ The erratic behaviour that led to the difficulties he had with his last wife is long gone . |
| 30 | So crazed were we becoming that I was sure that even at that distance we could spot the fiendish grin he directed at Sinar Surya floundering on the horizon each time he passed ! |