Example sentences of "who [verb] [noun] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eva knew a man on the local paper , the same co-operative journalist who got Charlie on the front page of the Bromley and Kentish Times , and he interviewed Dad . |
| 2 | Nobody has responded more positively to Newcastle United 's desperate plight than the striker who drew blanks on the big stage with West Ham and huffed-and-puffed little more than powder puff stuff at Leicester . |
| 3 | That was , and appears still to be , the view of Labour Members ; it is not the view , however , of those who shape policy on the Labour Front Bench . |
| 4 | While in Matabeleland , Macleod was one of the 634 men under Jamieson who declared war on the Zulu Chief Lobengula and defeated him . |
| 5 | Thanks to the two teachers from S.W. London who served tea on the 27th June under considerable difficulties — a temperamental urn and lack of support from others in their area . |
| 6 | The first recorded Nonconformist Gothic chapel came in 1839 when Sir Charles Barry , who started work on the new Houses of Parliament the following year , designed a new church for Upper Brook Street Unitarian Chapel in Manchester , although the interior design still had the pulpit as the central feature against the east wall and facing the congregation . |
| 7 | In 1938 Leo Amery expressed it in this way : ‘ when we are faced with the competition of a people who lay stress on the healthy development of their young manhood and womanhood , how can we afford a situation in which something like twenty-five per cent of the children of our country are growing up under-nourished and likely to belong to the C3 rather than the A1 type when they grow up . |
| 8 | Yes I think that over the course of our married life we had a number of moves for various reasons , generally to improve the accommodation , erm as standard of life increased so the desire to have a better house to live in or rather in those days a house was out of the question , we generally had rooms in a house , erm , they , the flat for instance that we were bombed out from was a basement flat , erm according to the estate agents it was a garden flat , erm and it meant that you had access to the front garden and the back garden , but as for being a garden flat it was below the level of the garden in the front and at the back it was on the level with the erm green grass at the back of the house , it was also along side of the trolley bus depot , so there it was considerably noisy , nevertheless it was a self contained flat , the first one we 'd had , no the second one we 'd had and we were perfectly happy there although of course it did have minor difficulties , the fact that you used the front door with people who had flats on the other remaining three floors , but nevertheless it did involve you in a certain amount of community living , you were aware of your neighbours , you had to be very conscious of them and they were very conscious of you . |
| 9 | In December the crisis was such that four directors resigned , including Jim Hunt , who said life on the United board had become too risky . |
| 10 | As with Dubček in the 1960s , the Soviets endorsed the new Hungarian leaders of 1956 , János Kádár and Imre Nagy , who replaced Rákosi on the latter 's death . |
| 11 | First it was Past President Jeffrey Horsfield who married Deborah on the idyllic island of Mauritius on June 22nd . |
| 12 | These spreads are attractive to traders who have views on the relative movement of the prices of two different futures , but are unable to forecast movements in the price level of either future . |