Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I like , I 'll throw my dinner on the floor and put clams in my hair and have tantrums , and … ’ |
| 2 | These phrases denied me my right to participate in the very same way that the socialist movement refused to recognize my rights to have access to information that would dispel my ignorance on such subjects . |
| 3 | I do n't , I do n't want my coat on |
| 4 | I do n't want my coat on |
| 5 | This may explain my confusion on reading a newspaper advertisement touting a book on baseball by Roger Angell . |
| 6 | I was just getting up to go and make my way on down to Greece when I felt a hand on my shoulder and heard a deep voice . |
| 7 | The chants which did catch my ear on sat were that newish Brian Deane one again , but I still have n't heard the beginning , I only know it from the ‘ scores off the bar , f**k Cantona ’ line — anyone else know it in full ? |
| 8 | Whether or not Unix Labs is successful in its appeal , it believes it can still win its case on its other claims of misappropriation , misrepresentation , trade mark infringement and breach of contract . |
| 9 | Whether or not USL is successful in its appeal , it believes it can still win its case on its other claims of misappropriation , misrepresentation , trade mark infringement and breech of contract . |
| 10 | He had asked Christina to attend this meeting too , saying he 'd value her opinion on the revised pool plans which Paul was bringing in . |
| 11 | It seems Freud and perhaps even wanted to er , vent their anger on Wilson , because of his failures concerning the war and its aftermath . |
| 12 | IRELAND 'S comprehensive 17–3 demolition of England at Lansdowne Road yesterday will boost their representation on the Lions party to New Zealand later in the year . |
| 13 | Roger L'Estrange produced a pamphlet condemning the Whigs and Nonconformists as republicans , accusing them of wanting to " pursue their Revenge on us [ the Church of England ] " , and he asked " Whether the Clergy of the C. of E. are not concern 'd to be as diligent against Phanaticism now , as of late against Popery " . |
| 14 | She might not have had a daughter to sing them with but she could enjoy their soulfullness on her own . |
| 15 | Charity schools were inexpensive and could be readily supplied in the boom years , while even such an early champion of the bourgeoisie as Defoe could approve their attack on sloth and indiscipline as going to the heart of the problem of the labouring poor . |
| 16 | Her initial action on reaching her room , however , was to sit down by the telephone and to try and concentrate her attention on what she should do now . |
| 17 | He suggested the Church should concentrate its message on violence rather than offering a view on the Social Chapter . |
| 18 | That should concentrate their mind on the need to give any affected party the opportunity to make submission on any such departure and also to facilitate the communication of the nature of the departure to the affected party . |
| 19 | Despairingly she thumped the pillows into a more comfortable shape , as though she could vent her frustration on them . |
| 20 | This is an exercise in persuasion , and requires composers who will focus their art on the simple and fundamental act of communication with their enthusiastic but tired , inattentive , restless , distracted and easily bored fellow human beings who none the less long to hear themselves in a not necessarily flattering mirror of music . |
| 21 | The only possible explanation is that it is employed by mother cats when out with their nearly fully-grown kittens , to help focus their attention on potential prey , as part of a general hunt-training process . |
| 22 | activities are signposted , and every new stage of a lesson is indicated so that learners can focus their attention on the task in hand |
| 23 | A small company will probably focus its attention on each artist 's project more than a major label . |
| 24 | The Brecon Beacons Park Society will , of course , focus its attention on local issues arising within the Park , where we hope that their voice will support ours , and vice versa . |
| 25 | But it is still hard to beat the experienced eye , which can automatically focus its attention on the most significant features of a spectrum . |
| 26 | He was a callous brute , and if she did n't need his protection on the journey to Winchester she would n't care if he bled to … |
| 27 | Once the demand for money and the threat were made and the pistol was produced , would that distract him or would it concentrate his mind on his assailant ? ’ said Mr Justice Leonard . |
| 28 | He stresses the need for the chief executive to be informed , but argues that he should focus his attention on just three or four major objectives . |
| 29 | Weber did qualify his emphasis on the coercive methods through which the state maintains order and compliance , ‘ force is certainly not the normal or only means of the state ’ ( Weber 1972 p.78 ) . |
| 30 | At one level , he finally found a spiritual home , a sanctuary from which he could vent his spleen on the oppressive bourgeois institutions which had duped him . |