Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they used to send orders is n't it It was nothing to see fifty items on an order . |
| 2 | Lobbying by pharmaceutical companies has already watered down a proposed directive which at first suggested forcing them to include detailed information on dosage and usage on advertisements . |
| 3 | As late as the eighteenth century some of the most renowned painters of France , Boucher , Lancret and Watteau among them , found it no more beneath them to paint gallant scenes on the artificial eggs presented by the king to members of his court at Easter than Cellini did to be called on to unpick the precious stones from Clement VII 's tiara as the Imperial troops advanced to sack Rome in 1527 . |
| 4 | Do you know what it did to me to see that animal on top of you , about to … ? ’ |
| 5 | He did not , as I had feared , ask me to perform covert assassinations on his behalf and nor did he insist on my using my eidetic capabilities to project myself into the noumenal world that he inhabited with such terrifying ease . |
| 6 | There is nothing to encourage any speculation on what the butcher of Abbeville , the peasants , their wives or the priest in Les Perdris or Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , Barat , Haimet and Travers , or Jouglet et al. |
| 7 | All the players gave this exhibition free of charge and , with the resulting revenue , the trust was able to set up a fund with which to promote junior golf on Jersey . |
| 8 | By taking account of business and other operational plans , such as changes in working practices , projections are made over a five-year period to provide base information against which to evaluate alternative strategies on staffing requirements and costs . |
| 9 | They convened Days of Truce at which to reach mutual agreement on ‘ clearing ’ bills against the accused ( that is , finding them not guilty ) , or ‘ fyling ’ them ( ‘ fouling' or finding them guilty ) . |
| 10 | In this way he not only develops his people , he also frees himself to spend more time on other aspects of his work ( for example , planning decisions , communications with other areas and personnel problems ) . |
| 11 | Nor will it avail them to advance further money on a floating charge on the understanding that this is to be used to repay existing loans ; a creditor can not by use of the floating charge transmute an unsecured into a secured debt by attempting to manipulate the saving provisions of section 245 . |
| 12 | I use a Shakespeare 13ft match rod , which enables me to play big fish on light tackle without undue fear of breakage . |
| 13 | This enabled them to handle global constraints on the sentence . |
| 14 | This entitles you to claim substantial discounts on all standard adult coach fares , including Rapide and Cordon Bleu Services , for a full twelve months . |
| 15 | But I 'm still here to ask you to support this motion on the plight of casual and temporary workers . |
| 16 | erm I 'd still like you to do more work on differentiation . |
| 17 | ‘ I want you to do some research on her . |
| 18 | A pipe-management system allows you to use this machine on the worksurface . |
| 19 | Look , if , if somebody charges you three hundred pound , and you say that 's too much and you complain and they knock it down to two fifty , but they say but we want you to pay fifty pounds on something else , extra , do you think the two fifty 's fair , eh ? |
| 20 | It must have helped both of you to have two galleries on one site ? |
| 21 | A wet suit will also enable you to spend more time on the water than if you only venture out when the sun is shining . |
| 22 | That 's four hundred and eighty , what we 're doing right , okay , so you 're doing trade at the moment in lectures , and er , Bob has asked you to collect some data on er , world trade in wheat and cotton , is that correct ? |
| 23 | So you 're doing trade at the moment in er agricultural economics I think Bob has asked you to prepare some data on er wheat and cotton trade . |
| 24 | And it 's just like , and they want you to make some comment on what you 've worked out , which is no problem really , is it ? |
| 25 | But she added : ‘ If our members sell oils to people , it is usually in blend form and we tell them to put clear instructions on the bottles . |
| 26 | Two pieces of evidence seem to me to cast some doubt on the drawing of direct parallels between LTP and memory . |
| 27 | Aunt Louise was always telling me to put more coal on the fire — higher and higher up the chimney which , as I knew , needed sweeping . |
| 28 | The management want me to put another voice on it so the rushes do n't go to waste . |
| 29 | They told the Cannes conference that new legislation that requires them to give more information on toxic chemicals to federal safety watchdogs could leave them wide open to spies . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , there are and what I would like to propose to you is this , that you allow me to do these tests on you . |