Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Denning sought to avoid it on a number of occasions , the most notable case being Davis v. Johnson [ 1978 ] 2 WLR 182 ( CA ) . |
| 2 | I threatened to put him on a discipline charge because whenever the drunks were turning out , you 'd find him in the station writing some trivial bike without a light . |
| 3 | One of the judges agreed to accompany me on a visit to one of these centres . |
| 4 | So , for the remit 's specification of industrial democracy , the rationale has to be this : that officials or , for that matter , ordinary members of the union , elected or deputed to represent it on a board of directors , would be accountable to the membership which would replace them if it judged their performance to be unsatisfactory . |
| 5 | So you 've got the right idea of dividing it by eight , but you needed to take it on a stage and see what the was . |
| 6 | I hired one and went to try it on a mountain . |
| 7 | After mass a lay brother offered to take us on a tour of the church and other interesting sights of the abbey . |
| 8 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 9 | Six months ago Teresa Leinin had to put them on a plane to the United States after the High Court ordered they must be sent back to their American father . |
| 10 | These moral issues , which troubled those who wished to enjoy the company of animals but felt they had to judge them on a set of human values , have caused less concern in recent years . |
| 11 | Constanze attempted to launch him on a career similar to his father 's — as a child-prodigy pianist — and on returning to Vienna he took composition lessons with Salieri , who proclaimed his ‘ a rare talent ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Simon attempted to pass me on a bend , but he lost the back end of his car and all control . |
| 13 | Mr. Mendez wanted to put him on a coach and send him down there in style , but Russell kept backing off . |