Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women . |
| 3 | He slid his arm round her narrow waist and bent to kiss her on the forehead . |
| 4 | When I prised her off and tried to stand her on the floor she kept rocking back and sitting on her tail , then falling over sideways and lying there like a stuffed parrot . |
| 5 | He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth . |
| 6 | First of all , medieval armies were sometimes not dependent on lines of communication : they did not , often could not , live on their own supplies , and reckoned to feed themselves on the land they passed through . |
| 7 | He kept her prisoner in her own home and threatened to electrocute her on a sunbed and burn her with an iron . |
| 8 | Charles took to Diana that weekend and began seeing her on a regular basis when they returned to London . |
| 9 | Sister Cooney picked up a pile of books and began to replace them on the shelves . |
| 10 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 11 | So step back and hit hit it on the up stroke . |
| 12 | Then we removed the wire from the front of the box and started feeding them on the ledge . |
| 13 | ‘ It hauled me to the ground with a thump and started mauling me on the back and neck . ’ |
| 14 | I hired one and went to try it on a mountain . |
| 15 | Almost operating on remote control he removed it , looked at it , and remembered finding it on the mat in that other house in that other life-time . |
| 16 | But in terms of his public image as seen at the time , he had been careful to distance himself from the unpopular anti Jewish terror of the Nazi mobs and had placed himself on the side of legality . |
| 17 | During the conversation Jean had brought food and had placed it on the table before Lucy , Doreen and Silas , and now the latter laid down his fork while he regarded Doreen with infinite patience . |
| 18 | Jackson , who pleaded not guilty , admitted frogmarching Mr Brown from the premises but denied striking him on the back of the head . |