Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 2 | Have you ever thought of knitting them on a larger scale ? |
| 3 | If you did , if you failed them on a regular basis , you would n't be here , right ? |
| 4 | She picked up my underclothes from the floor and laid them on a chair . |
| 5 | Made from the latest in Polymer technology Asics Gel has the unique ability to absorb vertical impact forces and disperse them on a horizontal plane . |
| 6 | You 'll want them on a long-line sweater or jacket , or else on a kind of Jolly Roger jumpsuit . |
| 7 | Well , if you do n't want them on , that 's the whole problems of obviously saying , erm , in fact , we do n't , if we do n't want them on a disk at all , we do n't have to have them . |
| 8 | For example , the snake uses its forked tongue to gather scent particles from the air and tastes them on a special membrane , called Jacobson 's organ , at the back of its mouth . |
| 9 | Having briefly described ten tests of language , it is now possible to compare them on a range of criteria . |
| 10 | As Reid led me on a tour of the hospital he said , ‘ She 's a po-faced old girl , but her heart 's in the right place ; and she understands the islanders . |
| 11 | My journey into the hinterland of industrial England led me on a trek across familiar territory among familiar people . |
| 12 | ‘ And how was Mrs Parkin ? ’ asked Dexter , while Blanche took a packet of chocolate digestives from her filing cabinet and arrayed them on a plate . |
| 13 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 14 | You also got them on a |
| 15 | And carry them , either carry them , or push them on a two-wheeled trolley , all through the round the lace market to 's , and various other And if I were lucky , and the 's van was going round the lace market , and I 'd got three or four parcels , I used to go with little Tommy and his horse and van , round the lace market , and he was delivering dress goods then . |
| 16 | Canon says that Still Video is an ideal medium for multimedia presentations because users can mix photographs , text and graphics on a computer , record them on a still video disk and display them on a TV . |
| 17 | ‘ We display them on a kind of rotation system , ’ he told her . |
| 18 | The EDFAX documentations states that the program allows users to compose and edit teletext pages of information store pages of information on disk recall pages of information from disk and display them on a screen create a local electronic magazine , database or notice board develop artistic and creative skills relating to the presentation of information develop language and communication skills gain an understanding of the videotext display format . |
| 19 | You always got someone on a hack to help you . |
| 20 | Owen made his on a December day in Washington at the Jefferson Memorial , a grim day , when he had discovered that his father was dying : ‘ And I do n't know whether many of you know , but around the ceiling , engraved in the marble , is a statement that was made once … and I guess I took that to heart . ’ |
| 21 | Now as soon as you have the five answers , and if you have n't heard the other four questions , then there will be a chance , as I said , to hear them again next week , when you 've got the five answers , I 'd like you to send me them on a Christmas card please , this is very , very important send them on a Christmas card please , to the following address . |
| 22 | Send them on a postcard to Central South at Abingdon , where our postcode is OX14 1SA . |
| 23 | Send them on a postcard to Central South at Abingdon , where our postcode is OX14 1SA . |
| 24 | First , cases of ‘ excessive defence ’ have a grounding in legal justification , in that the occasion was one which justified the use of some force , and this places them on a higher social plateau than killings with no element of justification at all . |
| 25 | In this connection McClellan has written that the librarian does not reject books , but places them on a ‘ scale of accessibility ’ . |
| 26 | So massive a change of emphasis must be of fundamental significance , not only to the anthropologist and the social historian , but to the child psychologists , psychiatrists and psychotherapists whose very existence as a group depends upon the climate of opinion which regards their professional skills as valuable and necessary , and which places them on an equal footing in social esteem with the more anciently respected callings of the paediatrician and the pedagogue . |
| 27 | Place them on a sandy layer over seed compost in trays , adding more sand to cover all but the tips . |
| 28 | Always use the same set of scales and ideally place them on a piece of wood or chipboard for a more accurate reading . |
| 29 | Place them on a flat surface and look at the heel counter from behind . |
| 30 | This can be done thus : take portions of a mature leaf and place them on a container of moist loam or sand and loam . |