Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The potters decorated cups with closely set vertical stripes , painting them on a wet slip , deliberately causing the edges to blur . |
| 2 | Be here on time and do your work well and I might consider hiring you on a regular basis once the child is born . ’ |
| 3 | The great double doors of the palace had been smashed inwards by a hammerblow from an American Civil War vintage sixty-five pounder naval gun , which the rebels had somehow recovered from the sunken Atlanta , transporting it on an ox-drawn cart since the wheels were missing from its carriage axles . |
| 4 | He could think of nothing but disguising himself and rushing her on a dark night . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , Mr. Pybus , the Minister of Transport , announced in February 1932 , that the London Transport Bill was dead and he had no intention of forcing it on an unwilling House of Commons . |
| 6 | This role will involve further service development of the factory deep cleaning service with the aim of promoting and selling it on a nationwide basis . |
| 7 | The Movement came to her aid by sending her on a secretarial course and finding her a part-time job with a City accountant . |
| 8 | Hendaye is not a town to dwell on , being easily outdone for charm by its partly walled Spanish equivalent of Fuenterrabia , facing it on a slight rise across the water . |
| 9 | Similarly you could try shortening the meeting , holding it on a different day or suspending it altogether for a few weeks . |
| 10 | I do suggest that you never lead the mare in or out without having her on a lungeing cavesson and rope or a bridle with reins … a headcollar and rope is INSUFFICIENT . |
| 11 | British Gas has admitted the meter reading mix up … blaming it on a clerical error . |
| 12 | If we achieved such development of economic monetary union , we would be doing it on a sound basis . |
| 13 | We knew that sooner or later someone was going to buy it and there comes a point when , if something is going to add value for your shareholders , you should contemplate doing it on a hostile basis . ’ |
| 14 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 15 | Charles took to Diana that weekend and began seeing her on a regular basis when they returned to London . |
| 16 | One Toronto investment dealer said : ‘ They are trying to isolate their good properties from the bad , refinancing them on a separate basis . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're always on the look-out for stories of good performance and good practice somewhere in the group , ’ says Jones , who writes all the copy in a job taking him on a growing number of foreign assignments . |
| 18 | He is taking us on an interesting excursion , |
| 19 | But communism abolishes eternal truths , it abolishes all religion , and all morality , instead of constituting them on a new basis : it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience . ’ |
| 20 | From the need to produce videos of Virgin artists came the idea of distributing them on a commercial basis as well through their own distribution company ; and within two years Virgin were busily developing their own , European version of MTV , Music Box . |
| 21 | He reorganized the life of the brotherhood , putting it on a sound basis of regular devotion , clear instruction , and caring ministry . |
| 22 | Building a stand for 25 tanks of too thin wood and then placing it on a sloping floor . |
| 23 | I was surprised to hear you have a fear of drowning , but I do n't expect that is bothering you on a big ship . |
| 24 | My dear George YOU WILL not thank me for congratulating you on a lucky escape . |