Example sentences of "who [verb] [pron] [noun sg] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Shaw , the Derby director who represents his club on the League management board , said : ‘ The existing rules allow for flexibility in dealing with a case where the player clearly has done nothing wrong himself . ’ |
| 2 | The departure of Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith was regretted by those who shared his emphasis on the political issues . |
| 3 | In Colombo policemen often took advantage of municipal health , safety and traffic regulations in order to ‘ tax ’ carters , rickshaw drivers and others who made their living on the streets of the capital , and in the twentieth century bus drivers regularly bribed the police . |
| 4 | The demotion of Aldana ( who retained his position on the politburo of the ruling Communist Party — PCC ) , was later officially confirmed and put down to " serious personal errors and deficiencies in the execution of his responsibilities " . |
| 5 | Believers then follow the practice of the person who stubs his foot on a stone and looks upwards with the cry , ‘ Oh God ! ’ as if hoping for some sympathetic supernatural spectator to be looking down on what is happening . |
| 6 | Lawrence , who fractured his kneecap on the last day of the final test in Wellington , arrived at Gatwick airport this morning . |
| 7 | One of the stars was the trapeze artist , Señorita Pinito del Oro , a gypsy who learnt her art on a clothes-line strung between two Madrid apartment buildings . |
| 8 | Because of her involvement in politics and close knowledge of major social issues , Webb was among the first of those anti-suffragists who rested their case on the fact that local politics provided a sufficient outlet for maternal influence to recognise that the huge divide between local and national issues in politics was ceasing to exist . |
| 9 | In the noble eloquence of his plea for conciliation with the colonists , Burke , who based his case on the proposition that they had not been represented at Westminster , drew a strange and illogical conclusion . |
| 10 | Now Earle Kirton , the former Otago and All Black fly-half who regained his place on the All Black selection panel late last year , has bee picked as Mains ' assistant coach for the coming season . |
| 11 | Organic meat needs experienced butchery and not a quick swipe with the band saw before being instantly packaged — so go to a butcher who buys his meat on the hoof from a farmer who is n't into organics just for the sake of profit . |
| 12 | Next , they brought out the wally who placed his head on the block but , being a wally , he did it the wrong way , facing upwards instead of downwards . |
| 13 | Three groups of river-people lived here ; firstly the fishermen , then the bargemen who plied their trade on the navigable river , and finally the boatmen who married into the older families after the opening of the Oxford Canal in 1790 . |
| 14 | Brenda Ford is the name of the girl who broke her neck on the stairs . |
| 15 | While Harriet Harman who lost her seat on the shadow cabinet and has been strongly criticized for he commons performances over the past year , keeps hers . |
| 16 | They had all come to pay their last respects to the local boy , decorated for his part in the Gulf War , who lost his life on a training mission in the Scottish Highlands . |
| 17 | His failure can not have pleased the training officer , who was paid a bonus for every dealer who kept his place on the dealing floor . |
| 18 | ‘ What we can certainly not be are black racists who turn their back on the philosophy which has inspired the ANC since its birth , ’ he said . |
| 19 | He would now and then play the most egregious fool in his carriage and was so much given to jesters , players and childish sports , to make himself merry , that anybody who saw his gravity on the one part and his folly and lightness on the other , would surely say that there were two distinct persons in him . |
| 20 | Fox 's woes were compounded by the emergence of Dale Gordon , who took his place on the wing and kept it until leaving for Rangers in November 1991 . |
| 21 | It might be the place where the young of the West come to be seen , but it is the old guard who hold their ground , the poets and writers , pamphleteers and musicians who leave their mark on the atmosphere of this enchanted city . |
| 22 | Christian Nagel is an art historian from Munich who did his doctorate on the Paris avant-garde galleries of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | Other Unionist speakers — the debate was boycotted by the opposition parties — who supported his judgement on the ban included the liberal Phelim O'Neill . |
| 24 | The verdict came as an immense relief for Mr Major , who put his job on the line over the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 25 | Credit was given for goods sold in the ordinary way , he said , only because the vendor believed the purchaser would pay , and fear of imprisonment benefited no one but the tallyman who forced his credit on the unwary poor . |
| 26 | The corresponding Jamaican word is [ bada ] , with RP / / /d/ , but this is not the adaptation made by the speaker , who bases her adaptation on the London form " bovver " ( [ del> ] ) . |