Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Elizabethan poor law acts of 1598 and 1601 threatened beggars with a whipping and placed the responsibility for maintaining the poor on ‘ the Churchwardens of every parish and four substantial householders there … who shall be nominated yearly in Easter week under the hand and seal of two or more Justices of the Peace … [ and who ] shall be called overseers of the poor ’ . |
| 2 | ( Perhaps he mistook the seven on his DME indicator for a three ? ) |
| 3 | day when he was with the lady , and before that , asking if … if I 'd like to see the fair on the green . ’ |
| 4 | Their job will be to tend the injured on the second flight back to Britain |
| 5 | ‘ Have been reading ’ , I realized even as I struggled to find somewhere to stand the strawboard in the darkness , makes a somewhat smaller claim than ‘ have read ’ , and I scarcely expect that my ‘ books ’ , to anyone outside the very restricted world of philosophical studies , are going to include the two on Spinoza ; all of which suggests a second-hand and partial acquaintance with my only other work , Natural Man . |
| 6 | I tried the twenty on him again . |
| 7 | They 're stealing our weapons , you do n't seem to grasp that — ; we 'll be outnumbered and we 'll need more than our superior skills — we 'll need the Almighty on our side . ’ |
| 8 | As the temperature fluctuations appear the same on all scales , the spectral index on these scales is constrained to be ( ref. 9 ) , and we shall discuss only the asymptotically scale-invariant form , originally introduced to explain galaxy clustering , and later shown to be a consequence of inflationary models . |
| 9 | The will often buy the cheapest on the market and throw it away when the element is worn out . |
| 10 | The only basic concession we made to the Chancellor was to exclude the self-employed on the grounds that they were not covered by SERPS in any event . |
| 11 | In the London , Ontario case , the Court discharged the accused on the charge of being a common nuisance . |
| 12 | I found the roundtable on fidelity fascinating reading , but intensely depressing as well . |
| 13 | To the trumpeter , he said , ‘ I want the dead on both sides counted quickly . |
| 14 | These overseers were empowered to levy local rates , to set the poor on work , to apprentice poor children and to provide relief in the form of clothes , food , fuel and rents for the ‘ lame , impotent , old , blind , and such other among them being poor and not able to work ’ . |
| 15 | Mrs Smelley did n't think he should have gone until he had been called up , while Grace was still tending the wounded on the Western Front , so she did n't even know what he had done . |
| 16 | She said , ‘ You know , they say you 've done the dirty on us in the Council . ’ |
| 17 | Goes back to the fisherman and they just er done the dirty on |
| 18 | In successfully pressing for a referendum on the Common Market , he obliged Wilson to suspend the doctrine of collective Cabinet responsibility , an event without precedent since the National Government had done the same on the free-trade issue in the early thirties . |
| 19 | Viol had made himself obvious today ; and presumably he would have done the same on other occasions . |
| 20 | In preparing my statement so as to include another recent event , I was following the behaviour of my predecessors , who have done the same on such occasions . |
| 21 | Their win , in so many ways , epitomised the Eighties on this side of the Atlantic . |
| 22 | Is it Brown or Heseltine who has written the following on competition policy ( clue : its was n't Brown ) : ‘ There is a need for a new sophistication in Britain 's approach to the ownership of her industrial assets if they are not to be acquired in growing numbers by our rivals as pieces of the game of restructuring European industry . ’ |
| 23 | In a reply dated 8 March , Harry Lukas , ARICS , has written the following on behalf of John Sale : |
| 24 | Maybe he might do the same on political reform . |
| 25 | Did you do the same on this record ? |
| 26 | Under the bishop 's plan he and I were to change places , and while I was on furlough he was to keep both jobs going , and I would do the same on my return . |
| 27 | ‘ Any reasonable jury who returned a not guilty verdict on the manslaughter charge would do the same on the arson charge . |
| 28 | multiply that side by a hundred and twenty so we must do the same on the other side of the equation . |
| 29 | So you can do the same on that . |
| 30 | Opening the summit , UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced a six-point plan to : ( i ) educate the young on the dangers of drug-taking ; ( ii ) start a high-profile anti-drug publicity campaign ; ( iii ) exert pressure on parents and society to set an example ; ( iv ) improve the early identification of drug takers ; ( v ) increase treatment and rehabilitation ; and ( vi ) campaign against any legalization of drug-taking . |