Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That conflict of views has its fierce advocates on both sides , and I am neither well informed nor dispassionate enough to comment on it From the presumed perspective of John Howard , the Ellis-Beto administrations overall emerge with credit , because they did insist on the publication of official rules , and that was a big breakthrough . |
| 2 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 3 | I suspect that Mum is angry about this , as she usually relies on me in the summer to look after my younger sister while she is at work . |
| 4 | Mr Butner — who developed a friendly , working relationship with Diana — eventually called on her at the palace . |
| 5 | By the early eighteenth century , the Jacobite supporters of the deposed king had become closely associated with popery , and the English church and state had assumed the role of a full and active member of the international Protestant alliance , a role which radical Protestants at home had been unsuccessfully urging on them throughout the previous century and a half . |
| 6 | While Alex Higgins reckons snooker can seriously damage your health , Davis is positively thriving on it at the moment . |
| 7 | He has no power to order discovery of documents or the attendance of witnesses or to make any order as to costs ( unless such power is expressly conferred on him by the lease ) ; and if he dies or becomes incapable or unwilling to continue , it is doubtful whether another expert could be appointed under the lease . |
| 8 | The fact that Anne now relied on her to the extent of being somewhat lost without her , gave Joan a curious but none the less pleasurable sense of power . |
| 9 | The beginner will do well to ponder on it from the start . |
| 10 | A head collar was eventually put on her in the chute , and when she threw her head up in anxiety a roustabout hit her on the face with a lump of wood ‘ for being so stupid ! ’ |
| 11 | Martin Pipe weighed in with his usual daily double , Royal Wonder and Vagog , both ridden by Peter Scudamore , but fortune certainly smiled on them in the Coral Golden Hurdle Qualifier . |
| 12 | As it was , de Lattre constantly held out the prospect of Chinese intervention , apparently believing it himself and certainly capitalizing on it in the US . |