Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as solicitors acting for the wife , where the matrimonial home stands in the husband 's sole name , will have given advice concerning the registration of a Class F Land Charge or a notice ( if registered land ) ; so , where the home stands in the joint names of husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants , will they have advised on severance of that joint tenancy in order to prevent the husband acquiring the whole property by operation of law in the event of the wife 's death before the determination of the matrimonial proceedings ( see Barton v Morris [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 1032 ) . |
| 2 | Yeah but I do n't , see savings they 've got on suits at the moment , special offers on them cos they 're not shifting them . |
| 3 | It was August now , and the first time they had gone on holiday without him . |
| 4 | Undoubtedly , he was deeply impressed by what they had created on top of the ruins left by the Korean War . |
| 5 | She and her husband , Jan , were on the next farm to Bruce , and they had looked on Bruce as a son . |
| 6 | Two men talked their way into the home of two elderly sisters , pretending that they had come on behalf of neighbours to cut down trees in the garden . |
| 7 | I congratulate my right hon. and hon. Friends on the positive case that they have made on behalf of the Labour party , especially for common environmental policies and for minimum social standards as proposed by the social charter , which has been agreed by 11 other countries . |
| 8 | Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors . |
| 9 | And the massive Independent Television outside broadcast unit ensemble helped to make it a busy day at Horsted Keynes with the Bluebell already geared up that day for the official launch of the Southern Q1 they have restored on behalf of the National Railway Museum . |
| 10 | So we 're trying to encourage the equipment suppliers now to look again at what they have won on business for Eurofighter and perhaps allocate the work between themselves a lot more efficiently so that instead of each one of the four members building a given percentage of the five items , they say right we 'll take this one , all of it and we 'll build all of it , you take that one , all of it and build that one and so on an and in that way we might be able to er er improve considerably on the costs of production . |