Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millwall took the lead in the 40th minute , when Malcolm Allen converted a penalty after Mark Robson had mis-timed a tackle on Kenny Cunningham . |
| 2 | Wide wooden verandas often surrounded a house on all four sides , although sometimes a part of the veranda had been enclosed to provide extra living space . |
| 3 | THE MAGAZINE Private Eye will have to wait two to three weeks to find out whether it has won a retrial on libel damages of £600,000 awarded against it to Sonia Sutcliffe , wife of the Yorkshire Ripper . |
| 4 | Horsham soon found themselves a goal behind as Abingdon made a tremendous start ; Town won a corner on the left wing in the second minute and Keith Appleton killed the ball into the area . |
| 5 | Town won a corner on the left , there was cross to Campbell , who hit a superb volley against the far upright , and Steve Aries took the rebound well to score . |
| 6 | BR bicycle ban to be lifted PROTESTS against a bicycle ban on peak time trains have won a relaxation on the ruling . |
| 7 | Now Affleck , who turned pro as a teenager , has won a place on next year 's European Tour following his outstanding season as he finished top of the European Challenge Tour , winning £39,769 official prize money . |
| 8 | Several women friends of Waddell said that he had given them within days of the murder large sums of money ; and a barman to whom Waddell had given £1000 for safe keeping said Waddell had told him he had won a packet on the horses . |
| 9 | A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council . |
| 10 | Puzzled and furious , he frisked the entire room in search of the culprit and practically committed a felony on the tie when he found it . |
| 11 | 72 ) and , towards that end , each of them occupied a territory on the periphery of the USSR within which a particular nationality was in principle predominant — Estonians in Estonia , Ukrainians in the Ukraine , and Russians in the Russian Republic , which was by far the largest . |
| 12 | He had previously stayed at the hotel on twelve or thirteen occasions , but had never before occupied a room on the ground floor . |
| 13 | The dining-room was almost empty ; just one other couple occupied a table on the far side of the room now . |
| 14 | In about the middle of the eighteenth century , John Zoffany , a portrait painter , arrived in England , and although not regularly accepted at first , he became friendly with Garrick and other actors which lifted his prospects , so he took a lease of a house called ‘ London Style ’ , which was set back from the north bank of the River Thames , just east of Kew Bridge , but later his wife and children occupied a house on the river front on Strand-on-the-Green , which house was named after the painter . |
| 15 | While the Christian communities occupied a place on the edges of society and kept aloof from most of other people 's festivities , their own sacred time was well enough defined . |
| 16 | If it had n't been for rock'n'roll , they 'd have dropped a bomb on someone else . |
| 17 | Then when we finished and come out we er there was such a commotion in the street while we were in there taking aircraft spotting a , a German aircraft had come over and it had dropped a bomb on the gasworks had the plane , and we had known nothing about it . |
| 18 | And somebody says , Oh they 've dropped a bomb on the tunnel . |
| 19 | " They told me " we 've never let a woman on before and we 're not going to now " and they did n't . " |
| 20 | After months of debate the Australian government announced on Nov. 23 that it had lifted a ban on homosexuals in the armed forces . |
| 21 | They had also instituted a ban on anything other than accident and emergency operations . |
| 22 | He expressed the hope that the move would lead to improved relations with New Zealand which , in 1984 , had instituted a ban on the entry to its waters of vessels carrying nuclear weapons . |
| 23 | Mime has never enjoyed a place on centre stage , it lives in the shadows of fringe theatre and the Big Top . |
| 24 | Somewhat paradoxically , Chambers also included a chapter on MacLeay 's circular or quinary system of classification , since this indicated that the whole animal kingdom was the product of a coherent , rational plan . |
| 25 | The government 's election pledges had included a clampdown on crime , but Simmons , taking charge of a new portfolio which included jurisdiction over the police , prisons and fire service ( hitherto the responsibilities of the Attorney General ) , faced immediate controversy when he supported the use of flogging with the cat o " nine tails . |
| 26 | Erm , the agency has considered a paper on this as is referred to in the final paragraph , what it 's basically suggesting to the Department of the Environment and the Home Office is , is that a formula is based upon the supply factors er , such as the , the number of fire stations and standard crew levels etcetera . |
| 27 | The decision was taken after the government had considered a report on the deteriorating state of law and order , a result of the activities of the separatist United Liberation Front of Assam ( ULFA ) . |
| 28 | Last year congress carried a motion on racism and fascism expressing its alarm at the rise of fascism and racism in Germany and France this has always been a trade union issue . |
| 29 | Mr Ellis spoke at the Monteleone Hotel , New Orleans , where he and Miss Stott from Bridgewater Court , Eccles , Manchester , booked a room on Tuesday , after arriving for a holiday they had planned months ago . |
| 30 | Not only had she booked a seat on an ordinary shuttle flight from Edinburgh to London , but a fellow passenger even had the audacity to ask her to sign his copy of Andrew Morton 's book Diana : Her True Story . |