Example sentences of "to [art] [noun] [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No working-class party immediately burst on to the scene to dance on the floor of Parliament . |
| 2 | If for example the fire officer requires a company to introduce new fire precaution equipment in an office and the owners of the office consider the fire officer is being unreasonable , the owners can appeal to the magistrates to adjudicate on the matter . |
| 3 | sufficient time must be granted to the shareholders to decide on the offer ; |
| 4 | Everything was ready and she returned to the yard to sit on the bench beside the rose tree , to sit and wait , eyes closed , and will her clenched fingers one by one into relaxation . |
| 5 | He want out at half-seven and told Sarah he was going to the yard to work on the books . ’ |
| 6 | It would be up to the courts to decide on the matter , ’ says her local trading standards officer , Mr Slater . |
| 7 | At a time ( 1944 ) when one 's acquaintances were casually saying ‘ I 'm off to the US to work on the atomic bomb ’ ( surely a gross breach of security ) I think Bernal was carefully insulated . |
| 8 | He returned to the North to work on the problems of reinforced concrete for a commercial company . |
| 9 | I will not yield to the temptation to reflect on the problems that face this university and the Centre for Continuing Education as part of it , but I think that it 's fair to say that in the future we will be hard put to maintain the volume and variety of the contribution we have been trying to make to adult education in the community . |
| 10 | With a little moan of fear she scrambled out of the car and raced to the house to hammer on the door , but it opened at the first blow from her fist . |
| 11 | Returning to the site to work on the current $38 million contract is project director Ray Hodgson and Charles Stewart , construction manager . |
| 12 | The entire Met staff climbed up the ladder to the roof to check on the visibility — well , that 's a laugh , we could n't even see the runway , and I do n't suppose the pilots could either . |
| 13 | They brought the whole flock of sheep and goats , thirty-five or forty of them , on to the roof to tie on the lukals — the double-pouched woven saddle-bags — stuffed with potatoes and Tibetan salt for trading in the south . |