Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pron] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , understandably , the peace which was essential information for the descendants , for it influenced their present actions to some extent ; and the solemnities were intended to impose themselves on the memory of the participants and witnesses and their children . |
| 2 | In 1929 an architect was engaged and recommended doing nothing on the clubhouse . |
| 3 | The landlord 's wife was expected to accompany him on the trip to Head Office . |
| 4 | Only the instructor had done better and none of the officers who had come to amuse themselves on the range had more than a dozen hits out of 18 rounds . |
| 5 | ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’ |
| 6 | On the other hand apologists for such policies rarely if ever sought to justify them on the grounds that they would reduce the real wage rate à la Malinvaud . |
| 7 | Titles stocked are selected to develop themselves on the morning and evening sermons . |
| 8 | The kitchen and the one spare bedroom were constantly , noisily occupied , the doorbell rang at all hours , and once , answering it , a man she had never seen struck her on the side of the head with an empty bottle and told her to leave his wife alone . |
| 9 | They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor had n't remembered his diagnosis . |
| 10 | Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head . |
| 11 | Indeed , the national is often a concept used deliberately to conceal conflict over the issues , to force one kind of unity around an existing status quo ( and if the arguments do not achieve unity , troops can be used to enforce it on the recalcitrants ) . |
| 12 | I 'll tell you this , I 've always had to like him on the job . |
| 13 | and they 've got to sell them on the waiting list |
| 14 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Cruickshank has spent just over three years in charge of the Scottish health service and has helped set it on the Government 's controversial road to self-governing hospitals and fund-holding family doctor practices . |
| 16 | You 've got to do one on the slip off and one on the slip on , at the same part |
| 17 | Touch wood , I 've never had to dope him on the lorry . |
| 18 | You 've got to repeat everything on the board is he ? |
| 19 | I used to bring them home and then , well father and me used to slaughter them on the Monday , you see and perhaps a bullock on the Monday and every Wedn every Monday morning the men from the farm , cos he had a farm , you see , used to bring perhaps twenty bullocks up through the street and he used to pick one out to kill , every Monday . |
| 20 | He said that , during the 20-minute journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne , a lit cigarette had been used to burn him on the back of the neck , he had been struck constantly , and as the car travelled at speeds up to 70mph , the man beside him had opened the door and told him to take his chances and jump . |
| 21 | Midland Car Loans have been specially developed to put you on the road as quickly and simply as possible . |
| 22 | From America , how earnestly he 'd longed to reach her on the telephone ! |
| 23 | He gave Ranulf a brief description of what had happened but his servant , with a keen sense of survival , immediately tried to link events to the men who had attempted to attack them on the road from Leith . |
| 24 | She 'd wanted to throw herself on the floor , kicking and screaming to make the words go away , to make the lover want to stay . |
| 25 | Its owner for the last 17 years , Keith Schellenberg , has been forced to put it on the market as part of a divorce settlement , agreed after more than ten years of legal wranglings . |
| 26 | Locals were forced to spreadeagle themselves on the ground at gunpoint . |
| 27 | There were photographs of her in the few parts she had been able to play in the years following her marriage ; photographs of her in youth , when her father had begun to launch her on the career which would be interrupted by the coming of Paul . |
| 28 | ‘ Teach to clap this rhythm — when achieved teach it on the feet ’ The sole reason being ? |
| 29 | It has four areas , I happen to have chosen to start it on the point , you could start it look at , you can see area , but , this , just look at erm , it 's this way round . |
| 30 | An empirical orientation has in turn been reinforced by the experience of history — it is the approach that has always been employed and no external constraints have managed to force themselves on the nation to generate conditions in which a rationalist approach would be possible . |