Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] on [art] [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 | The landlord 's wife was expected to accompany him on the trip to Head Office . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After four years in the explosives division , his management potential had been spotted and moves were made to launch him on a management development programme of rotation to broaden his experience . |
| 5 | ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’ |
| 6 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Titles stocked are selected to develop themselves on the morning and evening sermons . |
| 9 | Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | I 'll tell you this , I 've always had to like him on the job . |
| 12 | and they 've got to sell them on the waiting list |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | You 've got to do one on the slip off and one on the slip on , at the same part |
| 15 | Touch wood , I 've never had to dope him on the lorry . |
| 16 | You 've got to repeat everything on the board is he ? |
| 17 | So you 've got to present yourself on a business level . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Midland Car Loans have been specially developed to put you on the road as quickly and simply as possible . |
| 21 | What 's the strangest place you have ever woken to find yourself on a Sunday morning ? |
| 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 | A paperback copy of some financial blockbuster he is carrying around is dismissed as ‘ not my sort of thing at all ’ ( he has been asked to review it on a radio show ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The one time they were encouraged to sit her on a chair , after she had scratched her sister , both parents moved over to her and fussed her , talking and explaining to her why they were putting her on the chair . |
| 27 | His father objected that the police had arrested him unlawfully , because the law lays it down that no-one is allowed to do on Sunday the work by which he earns a living , and the police were therefore not allowed to arrest anybody on a Sunday . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I said she 's tried to keep you on a string just in case she did n't land the next fish . |
| 30 | I said she , she might well come back to you I said she 's tried to keep you on a string just in case she did n't land the next dish he looked horrified , you know , as far as he 's concerned its all love and glamour . |