Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 25 Bush called the new bill " a bunch of garbage " and threatened to veto it on budgetary grounds . |
| 2 | But as they started to grill him on such matters as his attitude to South Africa and Northern Ireland , it was his actions , not his befuddled replies , which riveted the panel 's attention . |
| 3 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |
| 4 | He had to try three of the numbers which the Substitute had given him on identical slips of paper , each of which had ‘ after eight-thirty ’ written in small , neat writing across the bottom . |
| 5 | He was a good-looking man in his late thirties , and Fran had met him on several occasions but had never liked him , finding something faintly repugnant about the way he stood on the outside of life looking in , searching for anything unsavoury . |
| 6 | Wright , who lent him money that he never repaid , continued to consult him on technical matters after he left Derby ; Burdett in turn seems to have procured purchasers for some of Wright 's pictures , including Washington Shirley , fifth Earl Ferrers [ q.v. ] , and Catherine the Great . |
| 7 | Over the past few years , since she had broken off her engagement to Jean-Paul , he had seen her on various occasions — at balls in London , or at country-house weekends once at Christian Glendinning 's parents ' house , but they had spoken only briefly . |
| 8 | She confessed that Sally-Anne had written them on old ones Miss Laura had collected on earlier trips , and Miss Laura had posted them for her , to deceive us . |
| 9 | There was no hint of the troubling flirtatiousness which had confused her on earlier occasions , yet neither was his manner that of the ‘ matey , all good pals together ’ variety which he had adopted during the first weeks of their friendship . |
| 10 | The element of continuity with previous Unity campaigns was thus preserved and the Cripps Memorandum received support from basically the same groups and individuals who had supported him on previous occasions . |
| 11 | His sober , professional and dependable manner , as much as his editorial position , had put him on good terms with most managing directors of most record companies , but his contacts with Branson — while always cordial — had been few . |
| 12 | In testimony to a House subcommittee in late April and early May , DuBois L. Gilliam , a former HUD official currently serving a prison sentence for manipulating housing grants , alleged that former HUD Secretary Samuel R. Pierce had ordered him on several occasions to award HUD grants on political considerations . |
| 13 | Mr Mohamed Al Fayed had advised him on various matters . |
| 14 | Thames Water Utilities wanted to put him on light duties . |