Example sentences of "[verb] on [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Yorath concentrated on Saunders ' form for Aston Villa , saying : ‘ I always felt he got unjust criticism at Liverpool . |
| 2 | As Home Secretary , it was Ede who had written on Evans ' papers when considering whether there were any circumstances to justify a reprieve : ‘ The Law must take its course ’ . |
| 3 | The illustrated periodical was a phenomenon of a world which Baudelaire saw as reborn on Guys ' paper : |
| 4 | Because the method depends on Stokes ' Law the dynamic viscosity of the water is important . |
| 5 | So seriously , too , did I take myself in it , that from the time I was sixteen I found myself hardly letting a week pass without writing one or two descriptions — of a man , or a place , or a walk — in a manner largely founded on Jefferies ' Amateur Poacher , Kingsley 's Prose Idylls , and Mr. Francis A. Knight 's weekly contributions to the Daily News , but doubtless with tones supplied also by Shelley and Keats , and later on by Ruskin , De Quincey , Pater , and Sir Thomas Browne … |
| 6 | You can say that again , was what I read on Quiggers ' face . |
| 7 | The character Mr Micawber was based on Dickens ' father and according to Dickens , Mr Micawber said , ‘ Annual income twenty pounds , annual expenditure nineteen and sixpence , result happiness . |
| 8 | The scheme is called the Antigones Project and will create a new play based on Sophocles ' tragedy Antigone in which the heroine seeks revenge . |
| 9 | The true social and environmental costs of this form of extraction should be reflected in new planning guidance that lays down demanding criteria , based on Flowers ' recommendations , that would need to be satisfied before planning permission could be justified . |
| 10 | She knocked on Miles ' door . |
| 11 | The fact that these things happen over time in the same place matters , even if this study does not draw on Giddens ' ( 1981 ) notion of structuration to address this sort of question . |
| 12 | a UEFA official commenting on Souness ' misdemeanour |
| 13 | Cypress is also concerned about the impact Sun 's new silicon and system design peddler , its Sparc Technology Business unit ( UX Nos 429 , 431 ) will have on Cypress ' own business . |
| 14 | Drawing on Habermas ' analytical framework , we can say that in developing in this way , institutions of higher education are expanding the scope of their self-reflection and , in the process , are increasing their own self-understanding . |
| 15 | The answer is ‘ yes ’ : a recent article , drawing on Eusebius ' Life of Constantine , seems to show without doubt that it was Constantine who introduced this law : Eusebius describes measures implemented by Constantine which can only be understood as referring to this law . |
| 16 | She proved to be the Glisseuse , a rather shabby forty foot motor cruiser , difficult to see on Venturous ' radar , so that much of the time she had to be kept at visual distance , especially as she approached the busy traffic lanes of the Thames . |
| 17 | If the pillars are really in the proper places , there is not a stone on the site long enough to act as a lintel , and to provide a basis for the stone-built superstructures which at present sit on Evans ' concrete and iron supports . |
| 18 | Authorities said 16-year-old Hattori was shot outside Peairs ' home after he and a friend , Webb Haymaker , knocked on Peairs ' front door while looking for a costume party being held in the same street . |
| 19 | Sitting on Drachenfels ' throne is a very bad idea , unless the sitter is Drachenfels himself . |
| 20 | Concentrating on Mithradates ' home ground , he stripped the Pontic cities of their art treasures . |
| 21 | Schizophrenic dance of Kids of Fame Simon Tisdall in Tegucigalpa reports on Honduras ' love-hate relationship with the US and its addictive cultural trappings . |