Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe . |
| 2 | Her car was ploughed into by 19-year-old Howard Sloane , whose Seat Ibiza skidded on a corner , said prosecutor Derek Halbert . |
| 3 | As the hippies had all but gone the police and the RSPCA pounced on a lorry , inside was a horse which had been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 4 | Althea Greenan goes on a walkabout around central London galleries |
| 5 | Luce choked on a retort . |
| 6 | I 've never had a bite since mornin' , ’ which made Ben exclaim on a laugh , ‘ I ca n't believe that . |
| 7 | At Wearwithal , Heinrich tried on a pair of pale blue sateen trousers , which fitted tightly . |
| 8 | Lee Harpin ODs on a long weekend of TV football |
| 9 | In the eighth minute Leicester drew level as Wright pounced on a loose ball after Gee 's shot had been blocked , to score his 15th goal of the season . |
| 10 | Before the Nov. 5 peace conference , EC Foreign Ministers in Brussels agreed on a package of economic sanctions to be imposed should the proposal be rejected . |
| 11 | He told Corbett to sit on a bench and went back to where he and a young man , a villein from the village , were poring over a great leatherbound book open on the table . |
| 12 | After Liverpool pulled level the non-stop Earle pounced on a Fashanu knock-down to score the winner . |
| 13 | On the manufacturing side the Dalek started life as a chalk line drawn on the factory floor around the portly frame of Bill Roberts seated on a stool . |
| 14 | Dionne slung on a Dietrich tape and she and Jay escaped to the kitchen , leaving Jamie and Francis screaming along to a soul-searching Burt Bacharach number . |
| 15 | The Eibenstein stands on a small hill in its own lovely park and garden , yet it is right in the middle of this bustling resort . |
| 16 | When Linda stands on a chair Linda is higher than Steven . |
| 17 | A team at the University of Dundee reported on a neural computer that checks cervical smears containing up to 200,000 cells and decides whether they are abnormal or not with 96 per cent accuracy . |
| 18 | Margaret Spencer reported on a discussion held at a Schools Council Language for Learning Project Conference in 1981 , when teachers were asked the question " Why do we ask children to read to us ? " |
| 19 | The Manchester doctor Thomas Percival reported on a " confinement " which " either cut them off early in life " or rendered them sick and feeble . |
| 20 | He now works in a group set up by the Bishop of Ely to work on a better understanding of market forces than that shown in Faith in the City , he says . |
| 21 | Austin Farrer came on a visit to Lincoln and reported that Ramsey was a great man in the college and held his audiences spellbound and was less mad . |
| 22 | If the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that our trade with Indonesia depends on a resolution to that question , that is a new and rather remarkable policy statement . |
| 23 | Richard experimented on a mahogany prototype for the mitred rails |
| 24 | In the centre is a roundel with a representation of Hermes mounted on a hawk and bestowing a wreath . |
| 25 | But then again , to fudge around it and simply cut to Rex lying on a bed wearing a big smile would be a severe cop-out . |
| 26 | The exhibitionist streak that had been confined to fancy-dress parties at Virgin 's weekends away now found full public licence ; Richard Branson embarked on a sort of alternative career in fancy dress that would see him , over the years , photographed in airline captain 's uniform , as Peter Pan , Spider Man , City Gent and , on one occasion and for reasons that were never entirely clear , in the bath , wearing only bubbles and a cunningly placed newspaper . |
| 27 | Any asylum seeker brought with him the possibility of retribution against the shrine and its local town or city from his enemies , as Gregory discovered on a number of occasions . |
| 28 | In 1977 Maud Sulter stepped on a train from Glasgow to London and began her current journey into the interior of Blackwomen 's Creativity . |
| 29 | Harrison and Mehta are more convincing when they argue that one precondition for a long-term settlement in Afghanistan based on a stricter interpretation of non-alignment could be a broad Great Power or regional understanding on the neutralisation of Southwest Asia . |
| 30 | Never was a labour more arduous , and it was without his former youthful enthusiasm that Picasso began on a great canvas that was to be the first result of his researches . ’ |