Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With no Lamb and no Gower I can see the chance for England 's batting enigma Graeme Hick to go on the senior tour , even if he has not been offered a winter retainer contract . |
| 2 | He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says . |
| 3 | Mr Biffen 's plea at the monthly meeting of Aberdeen and Kincardine NFU area executive followed on from an Ellon branch resolution urging the NFU to detail on a regular basis . |
| 4 | If the result was not one for Graham Turner to celebrate on the third anniversary of his takeover at Wolves , the manner of their performance should certainly cheer him on his 42nd birthday today . |
| 5 | In 1862 he travelled to the island of Sardinia to advise on the developing railway system there . |
| 6 | It 's very tough for Robin to finish on the losing side after playing a knock like that . ’ |
| 7 | He plans to stay in Sheffield to compete on the first day of the UK Championships today then concentrate on training , his Olympic place assured without having to jump in the trials in Birmingham on June 27–28 , in which he 'll confine himself to an outing in the 100 metres . |
| 8 | ‘ I simply meant somewhere for Jennifer to go on a regular basis for short periods of time simply to give you both a rest . |
| 9 | Conrad 's first manoeuvre was to send massed cavalry forward on 15 August to reconnoitre on a huge front , some 400km/ 250mls wide . |
| 10 | At a time ( 1944 ) when one 's acquaintances were casually saying ‘ I 'm off to the US to work on the atomic bomb ’ ( surely a gross breach of security ) I think Bernal was carefully insulated . |
| 11 | In 1842 Buddicom went to France to work on the Paris–Rouen railway , which opened in 1843 , and was subsequently extended to Le Havre . |
| 12 | On Nov. 6 Justice Minister Ngarikutuke Tjiriange signed an agreement with his South African counterpart , Kobie Coetsee , providing for the secondment of South African judges to Namibia to serve on the Namibian bench ; the agreement was hailed as a step towards increased co-operation among the judiciaries of southern African states . |
| 13 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
| 14 | The sensitivity of the initiative is underlined by the fact that it took at least five months for Unix Labs and Santa Cruz to agree on a basic specification drawn up by UK firm IXI Ltd and edited by Unix Labs . |
| 15 | When he did , with a flustered Lady Agnes in tow , Corbett abruptly told him to leave and asked Agnes to sit on the crude bench opposite him . |
| 16 | In her turn she came to the Sister , who extracted a folder with Orton , Stephanie Jane , EDD 13. 4.54 on it , from a pile on her left , transferred it to a pile on her right and permitted Stephanie to sit on a brown canvas and metal tube chair for another half hour . |
| 17 | Well I think if I could ask James to help on the geographic spread of the profits overall and then I could perhaps supplement that afterwards on the oil services . |
| 18 | An agent was despatched from London to Jersey to check on the dead activist Varienski 's daughter . |
| 19 | Dozens of police descended on a lay-by at Moreton Valence in Gloucestershire to move on a small convoy of New Age Travellers who 'd parked overnight . |