Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 2 | When they got out they were taken inside a building and made to sit on a stone floor that was gritty and unswept . |
| 3 | They failed to agree on a design , but the ‘ modern ’ image of electric cooking , particularly among young housewives , led to a gradual expansion of cooker sales . |
| 4 | Prices plunged in October to their lowest level for more than 14 years ( taking the price of beans in London to £655 a tonne ) after the 74-country International Coffee Organization ( ICO ) failed to agree on a new price stabilization agreement favoured by the USA , the largest consumer , based on a greater allocation of the export market to some coffee producers , notably Colombia , at the expense of Brazil and the African countries . |
| 5 | A breakthrough to end the 11-year civil war in El Salvador seemed unlikely , as representatives of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas and the government failed to agree on a common plan covering reform of the US-backed armed forces , arrangements for a ceasefire , and constitutional changes to enable the FMLN to disarm and participate in democratic politics [ see p. 38231 ; for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37449 ; 37770-71 ; 37850 ] . |
| 6 | Former Queensland Premier and National Party leader Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen walked free from the Brisbane District Court on Oct. 19 after a jury failed to agree on a verdict in his trial for perjury . |
| 7 | The congress failed to agree on a new name for the party . |
| 8 | Experts met in Spain in September to discuss the problem but delegates failed to agree on a possible cause . |
| 9 | When the Labour Cabinet , in August 1931 , failed to agree on an economy programme , Ramsay MacDonald , in his own words , ‘ strove hard and took great risks in being responsible for the delay , to keep the Government in , because no National Government of any kind is the sort of thing that I should support of my own free choice . ' |
| 10 | Vietnam owed the Soviet Union some 10,000 million roubles ( 6,000 million roubles due by 1995 ) , but the two sides failed to agree on an exchange rate for converting the debt into hard currency . |
| 11 | It follows an incident in which a horse became trapped on a gate . |
| 12 | There are frequent occasions in a drama session when children are divided into groups and asked to work on a task . |
| 13 | Whistling to himself , Henry laid the table , while , in the corner of the kitchen , Maisie finished her last chocolate bar and got to work on a packet of crisps , a tube of Rollos , half a pound of jellybabies and a jumbo bar of Turkish delight . |
| 14 | Trade relations were also discussed with Ivan Silayev , chair of the Interstate Economic Committee and both sides agreed to work on a long-term trade co-operation treaty . |
| 15 | Russia and Ukraine agreed on Aug. 29 to abide by their treaty of Nov. 19 , 1990 , guaranteeing borders , and promised to work on an economic agreement with the " states-subjects of the former Soviet Union " . |
| 16 | Even though the task — one that involved pedalling on a stationary bicycle — was equally demanding at all times , it was felt by the volunteers to be most difficult to achieve in the middle of the night . |
| 17 | Robert tried to concentrate on a spot just above the doctor 's head . |
| 18 | He tried to concentrate on a claim-form but was unable to absorb the information . |
| 19 | A TERRIER found decapitated on an unofficial dump could have been the victim of a dog fight , it has been claimed . |
| 20 | The standard rose is really a bush rose growing on a single stem . |
| 21 | The second interview ended abruptly when the convalescent tried to embark on a discussion of the merits of his water-colours . |
| 22 | But as he was going there , he stopped to rest on a soft , sandy hillside . |
| 23 | The DIM system demonstrated run on a Sparc and consists of Xerox 's ScanWorX OCR software , Fujitsu 's M3096G scanner , Frame 's publishing software , Excalibur 's document imaging software and Laser Magnetics 's optical storage . |
| 24 | In concluding the lament that constituted his 1914 Introduction , Dicey tried to end on an optimistic note . |
| 25 | Pigs wandered here with bells slung round their necks to show they were the property of the Hospital of St Anthony and could n't be slaughtered Beadles armed with steel-pointed staffs dispersed fowl or curbed the yapping of fierce yellow-haired dogs , whilst bailiffs tried to move on a strange creature dressed like a magpie in black and white rags . |
| 26 | Virtually what it did it came out of the last parish council 's conference which I attended on your behalf and er the Director of Planning and Development , Colin promised to lay on a seminar for parish councillors because it seems to be the one service which always gets criticism at the parish council 's conference . |
| 27 | The first part involved full time study for six months , from January to June , and the second part , which finished in November , involved working on a supervised project . |
| 28 | The house we found stood on a hill amidst fine old elm trees , looking south over the Tyne Valley and River South Tyne , midway between the villages of Bardon Mill and Haltwhistle . |
| 29 | These members , with the exception of John Ayrton Paris , recently elected president of the Royal College of Physicians , agreed to serve on a temporary mixed board of medical and veterinary examiners . |
| 30 | He 'd faced foxes , he 'd helped to drive the Truck , he 'd flown on a goose — but none of them was half so bad as letting a human being actually touch him . |