Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bantamweight Karen Briggs , featherweight Sharon Rendle and light-middleweight Diane Bell all won on Saturday with performances that make them odds-on favourites for medals in Barcelona . |
| 2 | Ally Mauchlen , substituted on Saturday with a groin strain , is also struggling to make it . |
| 3 | He issued the text of his decree calling for a nationwide vote of confidence , and it omitted any reference to the special powers he had claimed on Saturday during a televised address . |
| 4 | While England will recall forever Obolensky 's try , Wales the depredations committed on England by Keith Jarrett and his 19 points — including that try — in Cardiff in 1967 , the Irish have elevated the Hamilton try to the highest point in the Great Pantheon of Irish rugby feats . |
| 5 | Governor Clinton , who granted Bono a private audience , and has also been interviewed on MTV by Megadeth 's Dave Mustaine , received the endorsement of the official Madonna Fan Club Of West Hollywood . |
| 6 | The prospect of being marooned on Gullholm for days with a Heathcliff bereft of his Cathy gave her the creeps . |
| 7 | She and her husband , Jan , were on the next farm to Bruce , and they had looked on Bruce as a son . |
| 8 | A section of the bank employees ' trade union voted on Feb. in favour of strike action after claims for salary increases in excess of 10 per cent were countered by an offer from the banks of only 5 per cent , plus a one-off lump sum payment of DM300 ( nearly US$200 ) . |
| 9 | If the British people had voted on Thursday for a Labour government , they would have run counter to the swing away from socialist prescriptions across the whole of the rest of Europe ; more , they would have signalled the rejection of everything that has been so painfully achieved since 1979 in making Britain a competitive modern society founded upon the doctrine of personal responsibility and enterprise . |
| 10 | More gloomy news is expected on Thursday from oil group BP . |
| 11 | One train , the 15.4 hrs from Quainton and the 16.15 hrs from Aylesbury on Sunday was cancelled on Sunday for several reasons while the gauging run for King Edward was only carried out an hour prior to departure from Aylesbury of the first ACE . |
| 12 | Thieves who broke into a car parked on Skinnergate in Darlington on Thursday night stole clothes worth more than £200 and a radio-cassette player valued at £130 . |
| 13 | They may find someone to talk to , but rarely someone with whom they can actually cry although Damon Runyan claimed that the tears shed on Broadway by ‘ guys in love ’ , would produce enough salt water to start an opposition to the Atlantic and the Pacific . |
| 14 | The allies calculate that they have already dropped on Iraqi targets about one-quarter of the total tonnage of bombs dropped on Germany in the whole of the second world war , and destroyed one-third of Iraq 's tanks and artillery in Kuwait . |
| 15 | A total of 41,440 tons of bombs were dropped on Germany in 1942 , rising to 206,000 tons in 1943 , and 1,202,000 tons in 1944 . |
| 16 | During the short five-year period of the Second World War , a layer of air power was added to that foundation , but since the atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945 , and Britain armed herself with nuclear weapons in the 1950s , the Three Pillars have stood just as securely upon the strategic nuclear deterrent . |
| 17 | Carole Labno 's pet Shetland pony was presented on Saturday to the Claire House appeal , which is raising funds to build a hospice for sick and dying children . |
| 18 | When Tessa went out of the room to see if she could help Jannie the boys turned on Bob at once with all their usual wildness , jumping up and down in his lap , punching him in the chest , and trying to pull off his shoes . |
| 19 | Once upon a time Camille would have dipped her oar in here : she would have turned on Brian for attacking her mother or chided her mother in no uncertain terms for being a drunken slut . |
| 20 | The blue eyes turned on Erika like searchlights . |
| 21 | During the nationwide hunt for Stephanie 's kidnapper the case was featured on Crimewatch on February 20 last year . |
| 22 | Ashrawi had said on Jordan on Nov. 9 that she and her fellow delegates had been given diplomatic protection by the USA and the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | When Pat told me that he 'd been pleased with what I 'd said on Day to Day I felt better ; I could n't have coped with his disapproval as well . |
| 24 | Many reformers also complained that the new party 's founding document , adopted on Saturday by an 80 per cent majority , did not go far enough . |
| 25 | Bury St Edmunds members will be seen on Sunday from 10.30am , clearing rubbish and rough areas around Northern Way , Bury . |
| 26 | Led by Pavel Kohout , Vaclav Havel and other Czechs and Slovaks who would not buckle under to the regime imposed on Czechoslovakia by Brezhnev 's tanks in 1968 , the first permanent group of dissidents in Eastern Europe issued their statement of inalienable human rights at the start of the year — Charter 77 . |
| 27 | Azerbaidjan declared independence on Aug. 30 , and lifted the state of emergency imposed on Baku by Soviet authorities in January 1990 [ see pp. 37168-70 ] . |
| 28 | If all the King 's horses and all the King 's men could n't put Humpty Dumpty together again it 's doubtful if all the riches in the Bowes Museum could heal the scars imposed on Durham by Bowes and his fellow coal owners . |
| 29 | The medieval class system was imposed on England by the Normans but this imposition of feudal ranks and hierarchies of allegiance was never complete and proved relatively shortlived . |
| 30 | President 's rule was imposed on Manipur on Jan. 7 . |