Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ayatollah was teaching in Qom when he was arrested in 1963 after condemning a raid on the college by the Shah 's security forces . |
| 2 | Millwall took the lead in the 40th minute , when Malcolm Allen converted a penalty after Mark Robson had mis-timed a tackle on Kenny Cunningham . |
| 3 | Sedgefield District Council recreation officer Phil Ball , one of the council 's successes , was last week regaling a committee on the benefits of exercise . |
| 4 | The suspension loved it ( clonks from the front notwithstanding ) , the body sills and sumpguard slithered over bits where tractor rutting had cut deep , the whip aerial beat a tattoo on the roof and road-biased Semperit tyres found grip . |
| 5 | Wide wooden verandas often surrounded a house on all four sides , although sometimes a part of the veranda had been enclosed to provide extra living space . |
| 6 | Firefighters spent much of yesterday tackling a blaze on Strensall Common near York . |
| 7 | She went to catch a bus on Bloody Friday when 13 bombs went off in Belfast city centre . |
| 8 | Ferry boats ply regularly between all the resorts on the lake , and it 's great fun to catch a ride on the old paddle steamer , the Franz-Josef . |
| 9 | Among other things I hit on the idea of writing down a very simple minuet , in order to see whether she could not compose a variation on it . |
| 10 | It causes a clock on the ground to run more slowly than an identical one placed at high altitude . |
| 11 | The OLF announced on May 29 that it would seek a referendum on the future of the Oromo people of southern Ethiopia . |
| 12 | for example , an experienced chartered accountant may well seek a place on the finance committee or a solicitor on the law and parliamentary committee . |
| 13 | Besides , why seek a deal on looser Soviet control in Eastern Europe when Mr Gorbachev is already loosening his grip ? |
| 14 | THE MAGAZINE Private Eye will have to wait two to three weeks to find out whether it has won a retrial on libel damages of £600,000 awarded against it to Sonia Sutcliffe , wife of the Yorkshire Ripper . |
| 15 | Horsham soon found themselves a goal behind as Abingdon made a tremendous start ; Town won a corner on the left wing in the second minute and Keith Appleton killed the ball into the area . |
| 16 | Town won a corner on the left , there was cross to Campbell , who hit a superb volley against the far upright , and Steve Aries took the rebound well to score . |
| 17 | BR bicycle ban to be lifted PROTESTS against a bicycle ban on peak time trains have won a relaxation on the ruling . |
| 18 | Now Affleck , who turned pro as a teenager , has won a place on next year 's European Tour following his outstanding season as he finished top of the European Challenge Tour , winning £39,769 official prize money . |
| 19 | Several women friends of Waddell said that he had given them within days of the murder large sums of money ; and a barman to whom Waddell had given £1000 for safe keeping said Waddell had told him he had won a packet on the horses . |
| 20 | A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council . |
| 21 | ‘ Sit down , ’ Marc told Sarella curtly when the maid had gone out after depositing a tray on a table between them . |
| 22 | In 1842 he wrote a prologue for Westland Marston 's play , The Patrician 's Daughter , and in 1844 contributed a poem on religious intolerance , ‘ A Word in Season ’ , to an annual , The Keepsake , edited by Lady Blessington . |
| 23 | As well as being involved with the exhibition itself , the Library was co-publisher of the accompanying book , Scotland Creates : 5,000 Years of Art and Design , to which Mr John Morris of the British Antiquarian Division contributed a chapter on ‘ Scottish Design and the Art of the Book 1500–1800 ’ . |
| 24 | The results of the cotinine tests , which were carried out only on those 114 infants who provided a sample on both visits , were very similar . |
| 25 | With its egalitarian traditions of periodic redistribution of the land it provided a basis on which Russia could bypass capitalism and make a direct transition from semi-feudalism to socialism . |
| 26 | The need for the recommendation of a high-ranking scholar provided a control on the quality of the intake-as long , of course , as the scholar were reasonably honest-while the quantity could be controlled by altering a number of factors , for example , the period at which the regular investiture took place , the number of ceremonial occasions on which special investitures might occur or the number of students the holder of any given office might invest as Interesting , though extremely belated , attempts to control both the quality and the quantity of are represented by two decrees of the year 1715 , by which time the system had very nearly completely broken down . |
| 27 | Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends . |
| 28 | BRITISH Rail is launching a crackdown on fare dodgers in a bid to save millions of pounds . |
| 29 | Launching a report on the changing face of England over the past 50 years , Burton called on the government to target the 150,000 hectares of derelict land in cities before it allows more building in the countryside . |
| 30 | However , to the examples in Britain of pavements which suggest a reliance on plans or drawings , e.g. the Virgilian mosaic from Low Ham ( Smith 1969 , PI . |