Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 2 | Making notes is the best way of keeping your mind on the task at hand . |
| 3 | His bill was intended to deprive the debtor of the power of insulting his creditor on the one hand and to restrain the creditor from tyrannizing over his debtor on the other . |
| 4 | If Quigley had ever had a chance of regaining his grip on the First Spiritualist Church of South Wimbledon , he had lost all hope of it now . |
| 5 | A reflective dream of my own occurred when I was in the midst of writing my doctorate on the role of REM sleep in consolidation of memories . |
| 6 | They can therefore be visualized as potential cellular automata capable of imprinting their pattern on the surrounding body fluids . |
| 7 | Indeed , there was an attitude of ignoring our welfare on the part of the authorities . |
| 8 | It is Miss Havisham 's way of getting her revenge on the male sex as it was a man who broke her heart , all those years ago , when she was abandoned on the day of her wedding . |
| 9 | So had Nicol perceptibly brightened , though rather with the hope of getting his revenge on the devils who had tumbled him from the wagon , and threatened his companions with steel and arrows . |
| 10 | Under the old DHSS cohabitation ruling , beleaguered by years of criticism from welfare workers and the women 's movement , women who had male friends , family or lovers around ran the risk of losing their benefit on the grounds that these men were or should be maintaining them . |
| 11 | He had dreamt the night before of losing his walking-stick on the current of a stream . |
| 12 | So what he does now he always comes in over the top , so every time you see John shake hands with anybody he 'll always do that and come in over the top actually I 'm in charge and he sort of er sort of stamps his authority on the individual . |
| 13 | ‘ Alex is thinking of putting his flat on the market . ’ |
| 14 | He had a sure knack of putting his finger on the heart of matters under discussion , and of asking questions which helped to clarify planning and decisions . |
| 15 | He proved incapable of imposing his leadership on the political system and he failed to bring about significant public policy change . |