Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [pers pn] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are glad the owner has handed over the pictures of his own free will rather than selling them on the Western art market . ’ |
| 2 | The owner of the estate , American John Kluge , agreed in principle to sell the estate to the crown rather than put it on the open market , but he did not consider the resulting offer to be high enough . |
| 3 | Canonisation of artists has exploded : whereas in the last century you worshipped either Rubens or Botticelli , depending on your aesthetic credo , now it is legitimate to worship Gerome as well as Manet , while putting them on the same altar as living legends like Schnabel , Kiefer and Koons . |
| 4 | As Duncan had already decided not to leave the policeman to his own devices , he had no alternative but to join him on the next available flight to Tobolsk . |
| 5 | Barbara Davies writes : ‘ It is astonishing how Somerville , as well as feeding us on the meagre wartime rations , saw to it that we had our full ration of tutorials ; and that University lectures were given in the Arts subjects when almost all the male academics had departed for the forces or war-work . |
| 6 | That 's what they were doing , and then if you made too much slate this month , the following month they 'd drop your bonus down , so as to see as to keep you on the same level , so you could n't go any higher if you if you had good slate and worked your guts out . |
| 7 | She started off as a journalist , and when reading her on the nauseating cult of Elizabeth David , you know you are in the hands of a mistress of rhetoric . |