Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mr Biffen 's plea at the monthly meeting of Aberdeen and Kincardine NFU area executive followed on from an Ellon branch resolution urging the NFU to detail on a regular basis . |
| 4 | Under Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher 's administration , increasing pressure was put on AEA to operate on a more commercial basis . |
| 5 | ‘ I simply meant somewhere for Jennifer to go on a regular basis for short periods of time simply to give you both a rest . |
| 6 | At the age of 16 he travelled through the Far East and went to Australia to work on a sheep station . |
| 7 | Conrad 's first manoeuvre was to send massed cavalry forward on 15 August to reconnoitre on a huge front , some 400km/ 250mls wide . |
| 8 | We need to sort out which recording we want to use and MCPS will talk with SBK to decide on a fee . |
| 9 | A month ago , the UN thought it had persuaded Iran and Iraq to agree on a mixed military commission to settle some of the problems along their 750-mile border . |
| 10 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
| 11 | ‘ I once went to Japan to advise on a course , ’ he continued , ‘ and they wanted this bunker reproduced exactly as it is on the Old Course . ’ |
| 12 | The sensitivity of the initiative is underlined by the fact that it took at least five months for Unix Labs and Santa Cruz to agree on a basic specification drawn up by UK firm IXI Ltd and edited by Unix Labs . |
| 13 | Many observers supposed that the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 would force the Junkers to embark on a programme of liberalisation and reform lest they should find themselves facing a similar threat . |
| 14 | One peasant walked 15 versts to get Yakovlev to act on a building designated for a school that was still occupied by an influential peasant . |
| 15 | But easily the best Lions ' movement of the match came when Tony Underwood and Gibbs made breaks to allow Clement to go on a weaving run for a converted try . |
| 16 | In her turn she came to the Sister , who extracted a folder with Orton , Stephanie Jane , EDD 13. 4.54 on it , from a pile on her left , transferred it to a pile on her right and permitted Stephanie to sit on a brown canvas and metal tube chair for another half hour . |
| 17 | Airily we were told by our controlling officer at Gravesend to investigate on a night patrol , and anyone who knows the maze of creeks and rivers on this part of the coast will realise that the odds were much greater than finding a needle in a haystack . |
| 18 | Dozens of police descended on a lay-by at Moreton Valence in Gloucestershire to move on a small convoy of New Age Travellers who 'd parked overnight . |