Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went to catch a bus on Bloody Friday when 13 bombs went off in Belfast city centre . |
| 2 | Ferry boats ply regularly between all the resorts on the lake , and it 's great fun to catch a ride on the old paddle steamer , the Franz-Josef . |
| 3 | Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends . |
| 4 | Billing then threw himself into land speculation , writing , yacht broking , and ‘ ship-running ’ , and by 1913 had amassed enough capital to found a yard on Southampton Water , where he pioneered the construction of flying boats ( ‘ supermarines ’ ) . |
| 5 | The partnership would capitalise Newco sufficiently to meet the redemption obligations on the debentures and , if Newco became the beneficial owner of more than 25% of the ordinary share capital of Target , prima facie s135 TCGA 1992 would apply so as to preclude a disposal on the exchange of Target shares for Newco debentures , though it would be advisable to obtain from the Inland Revenue advance clearance for this sort of structure under s138 . |
| 6 | The point was hammered home by the arrest of Hedilla , when he refused to accept a position on the Party Political Committee ( appointed on 22 April ) ; by the conditions for negotiation communicated by the Nationalists to the Basque government via Cavaletti , which made it abundantly clear that Franco did not want a " separate peace " but total surrender ; and , finally , by the blitzkrieg bombardment of the Basque market town of Guernica , historic cradle of Basque nationalism , on 26 April 1937 . |
| 7 | With some fish , but particularly carp , a situation was apparent whereby they refused to accept a bait on strong tackle , but could not be landed on tackle fine enough to fool them . |
| 8 | Earlier , on Dec. 7 , Savimbi had undertaken to accept a ceasefire on condition that the Angolan government legalized opposition parties . |
| 9 | Banks willing to offer new loans equivalent to US$18.88 of new money for every US$100 of current exposure would receive market interest rates without having to accept a discount on the face value of their existing debt paper . |
| 10 | If you should decide to accept a place on a course , do not rush out to buy textbooks until you have finished reading this book , and guidance on returning to learning in particular . |
| 11 | In 1614 the Prince of Wales himself had to be excluded from a dinner at which the Russian ambassador was to be present , since it was feared that the latter would refuse to accept a place on the king 's left if the prince were seated on his right . |
| 12 | Incidentally , you will have shown your ability to accept a brief on either side , or even to be promoted to the Bench . |
| 13 | Traditionally , private investors find it difficult to accept a loss on redemption . |
| 14 | It so happened that the first person to come a cropper on the steps was the warden Jane Cartwright , who was a good deal younger and more agile than those in her care . |
| 15 | I 've got to write a story on this . |
| 16 | An Australian schoolteacher in Hawaii wanting to write a story on the States invading Panama for The Times in London . |
| 17 | Do you sit down with a blank sheet of paper and think ‘ I 'm going to write a poem on the subject of windows , or bible stories ’ ? |
| 18 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 19 | Certainly , any academic who wants to write a book on a canonical author , topic , or period , is likely to get a contract without very much formality ( particularly if it has to do with ‘ women ’ or ‘ theory ’ , or ideally both ) . |
| 20 | This is not the case , though , if the proposed subject is outside the catchment area of school and university examinations , as Terry Lovell discovered when she offered to write a book on Gissing for a leftwing series , which had asked for one on Jane Austen . |
| 21 | It all began when Hunter Davies , the country 's best-loved family man , accepted a commission from a publisher to write a book on the best of British . |
| 22 | Nobody has exemplified the extremes of this aberration of outdoor endeavour more than Chris Townsend , so it serves him right that he is called to write a book on the subject . |
| 23 | FOUR YEARS AGO , I was commissioned to write a book on the Reichmann brothers . |
| 24 | All I can say is that this excursion into public affairs further encouraged me in a project I had already formed : namely to write a book on political theory , to be entitled Liberal and Servile Society . |
| 25 | Although Rosa Guy 's style also contains energy , hope , imaginative descriptions and sadness , there are no contrasts between happy and sad scenes seeing as there are n't any happy scenes and although Rosa Guy has chosen to write a book on a very serious topic , I do n't think any really stylish book can be without a hint of happiness . |
| 26 | I mean let me mention one — the chairman mentioned that I was a rash enough to write a book on the evolution of sex . |
| 27 | In the latter case the policewoman has to write a report on the child for the superintendent to determine whether or not prosecution should follow . |
| 28 | His first book , Specimens of the Geometrical Mosaic of the Middle Ages , appeared in 1848 , and in 1849 the Society of Arts , of which Prince Albert was President , commissioned him to write a report on the eleventh Paris Exhibition . |
| 29 | Mr Game , who was commissioned to write a report on the incident for Greenpeace , said two milestones in the life-cycle of the Shetland wildlife must be crossed before the full extent of the damage will be known . |
| 30 | Within a year he found himself commissioned by Peter Mandelson , the Labour Party 's new director of campaigns and communications to write a report on the party 's communications strategy , working towards the 1987 election . |