Example sentences of "[verb] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It focussed on a number of different client groups and 28 projects set out to move about 900 people from hospital settings to community settings . |
| 2 | Thus deadlock can occur if and only if the environment offers to communicate on a set of channels disjoint from one of the sets represented by the |
| 3 | Central News followed their activities over Christmas- our cameras and microphones eavesdropping on a party conversation . |
| 4 | Central News followed their activities over Christmas- our cameras and microphones eavesdropping on a party conversation . |
| 5 | Conventional artwork for presentation graphics will be made up using typesetting , instant lettering or any of the other methods that allow text and graphics to be mixed on a page . |
| 6 | His parents sleep on a setee in the living room . |
| 7 | They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped . |
| 8 | Dáil members would act on a decision of the hierarchy once that hierarchy had said the teaching of the church was at issue , providing of course that the area in question was a grey one , a new territory not previously covered by the generally accepted sacred-profane spheres . |
| 9 | Slosh on a bit of this , and that should do it . |
| 10 | ‘ Stella Maris , ’ he muttered against her hair , and jumped away like a fish leaping on a bank . |
| 11 | A Christmas stocking — no , a pair of red tights , actually — filled up to here with pound notes that we 'd won on a strawberry roan named Cordelia . |
| 12 | However , the Irishman countered well and with the scores at eight each the Dubliner eventually won on a count back of 30–28 . |
| 13 | On 28 September , debate was reopened on a Declaration on the Jews , a topic postponed at the end of the second session and , between times , distinctly watered down by the Theological Commission . |
| 14 | BEER tipped on a member of the audience is not everyone 's idea of art , let alone a joke . |
| 15 | He was saddened by the degeneration of soccer , a sport he genuinely loved , suffering first-hand when he was attacked on a train at Leamington Spa . |
| 16 | And she 'd rather jump on a pony and go ! |
| 17 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 18 | She nodded and sipped : he leaned his head forward and she brought the glass to his mouth : he finished it and she let it fall on a bush of discarded clothing as he swooped down with his hand , lifted her dress clear over her waist and then , as she struggled to help him , tugged it over her head . |
| 19 | Barbara Coleman was in the lobby , banging on a door . |
| 20 | Very often I dined on a banana split , which was enormous : it consisted of a whole banana , three scoops of ice cream , syrup and whipped cream and only cost 25 cents ; we also lived on delicatessen sandwiches and salads and were so excited with the automats where we put our money in and out popped coffee . |
| 21 | The climbers dined on a cornucopia of fresh fruits , meat , cream , cake and ale , cooked by the enormous basecamp staff . |
| 22 | One is now face down in the corner , snoring on a pile of old cheese cloths . |
| 23 | I dare say someone could cross a road with the best of intentions — to help an old lady perhaps , or to look at a fruit-shop — then slip on a banana-skin and cause a perfectly horrible accident . |
| 24 | Characteristically , Australia has been fighting the sun war with a slogan , Slip , Slop , Slap : slip on a shirt , slop on some cream and slap on a hat . |
| 25 | The voice rose on a wave of passion . |
| 26 | Her voice rose on a note of hysteria . |
| 27 | Her voice rose on a note that betrayed how near she was to breaking-point . |
| 28 | Any retrospective rule change would place a question mark over the reselections of Mr George Galloway in Glasgow Hillhead and Mr Ron Brown in Edinburgh Leith , who were both nominated on a majority of trade union votes . |
| 29 | The ability to create printed copies of diagrams that appear on a computer screen is an essential requirement of many serious users . |
| 30 | Whether the words are printed , typed or handwritten ; whether they appear on a screen or on different types and qualities of paper ; whether a ‘ text ’ occurs as a separate item , as part of an academic journal , or in a book or an encyclopaedia ; how the page is laid out , the extent to which it is broken up by illustrations , headings , and the use of different typefaces . |