Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ARA officials met Dzerzhinsky on 12 April to complain about the requisitioning of their supplies . |
| 2 | President Roosevelt wired Churchill on 21 November that both sides had compromised , but the UK insisted on restricting the number of aircraft irrespective of the amount of traffic : ‘ This seems to me a form of strangulation , ’ he wrote , and he asked Churchill not to let the conference collapse . |
| 3 | Even if CGT applied , the combination of s 80 , FA 1980 ( as amended by s 94(3) , FA 1991 ) means that the application of market value at March 1982 , indexation relief and the £40,000 exemption might well reduce or eliminate CGT on any part deemed to be let . |
| 4 | Jackson , the estate agent , met Barratt on one of his visits having brought with him Michael Knott who was now desirous of talking business with John Taylor when he was next up . |
| 5 | ‘ I would love to have seen 400,000 kids coming along to see Kylie on this tour , but it just is not possible , ’ said Waterman . |
| 6 | IBM has its own OLTP CICS software running on MVS and , if reports prove true , will be announcing CICS on AIX-run workstations this week . |
| 7 | The French approached Charleroi on all the southern roads . |
| 8 | Tito 's troops entered Carinthia on 6 May and on 8 May only just lost to 5 Corps the race to be the first to enter the provincial capital Klagenfurt . |
| 9 | The earliest record of Thomas is of his admission as a commoner at Brasenose College , Oxford , on 1 March 1653 ; he matriculated on 2 April 1653 , and was admitted to the degree of BA on 13 October 1656 , created MA on 6 November 1661 , and admitted BD on 11 December 1669 . |
| 10 | I beat Heidi on that , though still got a merito , got nine point for my spelling test . |
| 11 | He joins AEA on 18 October . |
| 12 | It appeared that they had already approached Boeing on this matter and had tried to induce another key employee to join them . |
| 13 | Inside Story starts Monday On Central News South . |
| 14 | French warships approached Haiphong on 6 March , and despite the agreement were fired on by Chinese batteries . |
| 15 | He entered Paris on 25 August and in October his government was given full recognition by the Allies . |
| 16 | In response to Monteith 's report , the Secretary of the Interior dispatched T. B. Odeneal , Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon , to meet Joseph on 27th March 1873 . |
| 17 | Like Payne and Haeggman who had 67 , and another Swede Anders Gillener caught McAllister on 140 , he is seeking his maiden Tour success . |
| 18 | A relatively strong force of fighters approached Malta on 11 April , apparently as cover for a Luftwaffe reconnaissance aircraft . |
| 19 | The champions faxed a protest to UEFA after being ordered to meet Stuttgart on neutral territory . |
| 20 | He gave evidence as to how he and other officers had approached Drew on 22 July and taken a statement . |
| 21 | The Syrian foreign minister , Abdul Halim Khaddam , visited Lebanon on three occasions to call for ceasefires or appeal for political reforms that might re-establish trust between the two sides . |
| 22 | After his return he was sent for by the Mamluk sultan who wished to learn from him the state of affairs in Rum ; and he entered Cairo on either 4 Safar 823/19 February 1420 ( Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi ) or Tuesday 4 Rabi'I 823/Tuesday 19 March 1420 ( al-Makrizi . |
| 23 | UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar visited Baghdad on 13 January as the bearer of a set of peace proposals from the UN . |
| 24 | He was the first English king ( as Irish Catholics still considered him ) to visit the country since Richard III in 1394 and when he entered Dublin on 24 March , with his old friend , Tyrconnel , whom James had created a duke , riding before him , he received a rapturous reception , with bells ringing , girls in white scattering flowers in front of him , and the clergy carrying the host in a monstrance . |
| 25 | So ESA has recently had to consent to launch Exosat on one of NASA 's Delta rockets — an option it could have taken in the early 1970s which would have allowed a launch in 1977 . |
| 26 | When the US President , Eisenhower , visited Madrid on 21 December 1959 , Franco persisted in interpreting it as a sign of recognition of his rightness , not as an indication that times were changing and he would have to move with them or be left behind . |
| 27 | Those circumstances posed a threat to peace in Europe and Neville Chamberlain , being anxious to avoid war at all costs , arranged to meet Hitler on 15th . |
| 28 | He had finally hated Nancy on that day . |
| 29 | I parked Armstrong on double yellow lines outside her shop and dived in . |
| 30 | ‘ And , ’ added Gary on this occasion , ‘ it looks like she 's not coming back . ’ |