Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usher relied on bore holes and tanks although even those proved inadequate one year when the school had to be closed for three months because of the shortage of water . |
| 2 | The Collegium of the CIS Joint Armed Forces Command decided on April 4 to ban military units and command bodies from participating in any commercial structures and from selling military property and ordnance through military organizations . |
| 3 | Er , we have some points that we want taken on board such as the relevance of CPMs in the primary care team each team and that sort of thing but I do n't think they are fundamental differences , they are , as I say , dialogues towards consensus . |
| 4 | Half-a-dozen 18th century specimens , still retaining their colour after more than two centuries , lie pressed on paper sheets at Sunderland . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most apt comment , after Britain 's 5–0 defeat by France , the holders , in Bayonne , came from Tony Pickard , who said ‘ It was a tragedy that this match was n't begin shown on television back home ’ . |
| 6 | All rankings based on Sunday Times Good State Schools Guide published on August 15 . |
| 7 | It is actually fear based on ignorance that gipsies are human beings . |
| 8 | Begging your pardon , Sir , but some of those alleged artists that get feted on BBC Two could paint no better than a monkey in the zoo . |
| 9 | ‘ If we get eliminated on Sunday I could have come over straight away . |
| 10 | If you do n't do that , you get put on report . |
| 11 | Erm some people get hooked on geometry , and they , I 'm gon na get this one if it kills me . |
| 12 | And you 'll just have a , some water you know poured on top and then you 'll have a towel to wipe your feet . |
| 13 | Some people get held on suspicion — I know ! |
| 14 | Administration is ensuring that Gary and Tim get back-up supplies , are advised of scheduling changes and get paid on time . |
| 15 | Well I 'm making arrangements to pay mine er but when I get paid on Friday it were going through , got ta pay him twenty five pounds and then fifteen pounds every fortnight thereafter and it 'll take seven months to pay but that 's all he can get off us . |
| 16 | Apparently Ziegfeld spied on rehearsals by watching through a peephole in the wall . |
| 17 | President Roh Tae Woo announced on Sept. 18 that he was resigning from the Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) , the ruling political grouping which he had led until August 1992 [ see p. 39050 ] , and within which he currently held the post of honorary president . |
| 18 | President Roh Tae Woo announced on Jan. 10 that two rounds of elections for mayors and provincial governors due to be held in mid-1992 would be postponed indefinitely . |
| 19 | At last Lothar consented on oath that the father should give [ Charles ] any part of the kingdom he wanted , and moreover that he [ Lothar ] would be his guardian and protector against all his enemies now and in the future " . |
| 20 | The horror of the battle and the danger to France of those first days had , however , at last become imprinted on Joffre 's sanguine and complacent mind . |
| 21 | Keep left on path along wall on reaching River Wharfe. 9 Follow riverside path . |
| 22 | Erm I think based on table nine erm the increase er by thirty four workers per hectare would cause Craven some problems . |
| 23 | ENGLISH cricket must learn a slow , hard lesson from the humiliating Test series defeat inflicted on Graham Gooch 's men by the Indian spinners . |
| 24 | At lunch-time today he said , I called in with regard to those records they 've placed on order . |
| 25 | One , one might argue that erm one might argue that there is a cynical implication thereupon , one might argue that but , but in i i in exactly the same way at the moment you might argue that all the assurances they 've given on Hong Kong are , are not worth the paper they 're written on and , and , and as soon as the , soon as you get through to nineteen ninety seven they 'll walk in . |
| 26 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 27 | I do n't know about you , but that comment , which was surely not a carefully considered one , rings truer than any homily on the state of matrimony I 've heard on Oprah or seen embroidered on a sampler . |
| 28 | One track I 've omitted on purpose the Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman , in which Dame ‘ Bella ’ is joined by Nellie Walker , and does not attempt to sing it with herself as Elisabeth Schumann did . |
| 29 | We 've picked on Tank Farm for the simple reason |
| 30 | I 've been to the natural childbirth classes in Muswell Hill , I 've sat on sag-bags and chanted ‘ Ommmmmm ’ with the best of them . |