Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos she got pissed on Babycham ! |
| 2 | So — the taxmen argued — in the new system , tax due on interest payments in the gap from October 1985 to April 1986 would get stuck in the society 's pocket . |
| 3 | But also by 1967 , expenditure on education had for the first time in history equalled that on defence . |
| 4 | So we 'd got about forty yards to march to the er the van before we even got that on board . |
| 5 | Given that on average each Spaniard eats 66 pounds of fish and seafood a year , and much of it comes from Galicia , you 'd expect to see a lot there . |
| 6 | And I make that on Thursdays , nice big lasagna . |
| 7 | Rinse the pineapple and cherries to remove sugary coating and pat dry on kitchen paper . |
| 8 | Ministers made clear on Wednesday that they would resign en masse if Mr Yeltsin 's hand was forced . |
| 9 | The Ides , or days when there was a full moon , were sacred to him and his shrines were placed high on mountain tops . |
| 10 | South Africa 's reply has been to attack transport and economic installations that link the neighbours so as to ensure that they remain dependent on South Africa . |
| 11 | But because expertise in chemistry and related sciences and technologies is often scarce in poor countries , they can not develop natural resources to their own advantage , and they remain dependent on experts from industrialised countries . |
| 12 | Many of those people remain dependent on officials in the Department . |
| 13 | Politicians ca n't force people to adopt Green lifestyles , and people remain dependent on politicians to set the legislative pace . |
| 14 | He would be unlikely to survive the procedure but could well remain dependent on machinery for life support for weeks if not months before his heart stopped beating . |
| 15 | Nobody ever got high on elephants ' teeth . |
| 16 | A couple of the members had to miss this on Sunday as Phil ( Sir Courtney ) had to be taken to the local hospital for stitches in his fingers . |
| 17 | The system of parental contributions is unfair and unacceptable in that it expects students to remain dependent on parents into adulthood . |
| 18 | We have already encountered an archetypal example of this in the Neolithic mother-goddess cult , and it may be that today , over-indulged children , not fully weaned because of permissive fashions in modern childrearing , and encouraged throughout their childhood and adolescence to remain dependent on parents who have been afraid to deny them anything , experience a similar hankering after the unobtainable but mouth-watering mother-as-breast . |
| 19 | No it 's only because we made some on holiday when we went |
| 20 | Although joking apart I urge members to support this on principle , I think we should put this in and then it will have to be considered next year , how , where the money will , will come from , and I think that we should establish it that married women with dependant children will get some allowance to help them to stand and represent their communities . |
| 21 | Lozano was allowed to remain free on bail while appealing against his conviction . |
| 22 | Some of the problems associated with large-scale privatization became clear on Feb. 28 when Anatoly Chubais , the chair of the Committee for Property Management with responsibility for implementing privatization , revealed at a news conference that prosecutors were investigating an incident of " privatization by nomenklatura " ( former communist party officials ) . |
| 23 | Anyone got this on tape perchance ? |
| 24 | At about the same time , in England and Wales , poor relief was , for the first time , made dependent on family size ( partly to alleviate the effects of the Napoleonic Wars ) . |
| 25 | The report in the Bude and Stratton Post , headlined MAROONED ON ROCK only made things worse . |
| 26 | Leinster have named a team that looks strong on paper , including eight internationals , yet they recently lost to both Munster and Ulster in the Inter-Provincial Championship . |
| 27 | And while the Indian batting , laced with the talents of Mohammad Azharuddin , Sachin Tendulkar and Sanjay Manjrekar , looks strong on potential , poor form on the tour to South Africa may prompt changes . |
| 28 | Incredibly , the fine 1972 Nutcracker has yet to appear complete on CD ( Previn 's RPO remake is a bitter disappointment by comparison ) so the generous selection here ( including the ‘ Snowflakes Waltz ’ and the Finale as well as the pieces from the Suite and some other movements ) is all we have from a fine set . |
| 29 | All eight were rescued unharmed on Tuesday morning after an operation in which Mr Friend 's experience as rescue team captain helped to keep morale high . |
| 30 | I think it looks awful on boys ! |