Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I put Growmore fertiliser on at the same time as the compost and it seems to have no ill-effects . |
2 | The 30-year-old Londoner , son of the late Graham Hill , steered his Canon Williams Renault on to the front row of the provisional grid alongside pole man and team-mate Alain Prost with a brilliantly controlled display of driving on the treacherous Interlagos track . |
3 | What are the prospects for mining specialist Bernard Pache hanging on to the top job at state-owned Compagnie des Machines Bull SA now that France is to have a new administration ? |
4 | Almost touch them with my hand , thought Jenny Dale as she looked out on the skyscrapers , then turned her attention to flying the small , six-seater , twin-engined Piper Seneca on to the final approach . |
5 | Since FIFA accepted South Africa back on to the international stage their top players have become available for transfer at cheap prices . |
6 | It occurs in a number of quite precise and extremely crucial contexts , from the Maccabean regime on into the first century A.D. Thus the High Priest at the period of Judas Maccabeus ( who died in 160 B.C. ) is referred to as a Zaddik and described as being ‘ a zealot for the law ’ . |
7 | He watched Peter climb on to the large heap of coal by the wall and start to fill a bag . |
8 | I was going to put Dave Reynolds on to the Jenner part of this ; will that be okay with you ? ’ |