Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb base] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the second last she put in a tremendous leap and was back in the lead as Run And Skip started to fade , but Forgive 'N Forget on the stands side and Wayward Lad inside him were now going for home , and they passed Dawn Run on the approach to the last . |
| 2 | While there is a great deal of merit in this argument , it over-estimates the importance of what individuals say or write on the shaping of ideology . |
| 3 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , just a brief note to let you know that work on the MSS you left with me is proceeding apace ( at long last ! ) and will soon be ready for publication . |
| 4 | Those who think of Pound as a great liberator from stiff and hidebound conventions will be disconcerted to find that Newbolt on the contrary treats him as an academic formalist . |
| 5 | I do n't want that handle on the baby at all . |
| 6 | This was stated yesterday by airport chairman Hugh O'Neill when he announced that work on the 108 bedroom , three-star hotel is to start before the end of the year , opening in the spring of 1993 . |
| 7 | ‘ I probably made that mark on the ground when I pulled over the door … there 's a scrape on the floor of the gazebo … must have happened when I pushed him over . ’ |
| 8 | Judge Byron Robb chose it to rule that work on the cult 's nuclear bunkers in Montana had to stop , after their fuel oil tanks were found to be leaking . |
| 9 | The article was not a news report , however , but one of those background features that appear on the women 's pages of quality newspapers after some well-publicized court case . |
| 10 | He had seen that look on the faces of mother ducks when they took their little flock down to the river for the first time . |
| 11 | Oh , I 've seen that look on the faces of People before . |
| 12 | It will be seen that work on the new bore is well advanced in this view from 30th June 1951 . |
| 13 | The decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal in London International College v Sen is to be welcomed by lawyers , CAB workers , Trade Union advisors and in particular by people who seek and rely on the advice of the above . |
| 14 | My boots squelch and squeak on the tiles . |
| 15 | So in OALD the examples support and enlarge on the definitions ; they are sentences or phrases showing the word or phrase which has been defined in use . |
| 16 | In this buyers ' guide we cover and comment on the best ( and some we would n't give tank-space to ) and leave the reader to judge . |
| 17 | Relax and repeat on the other side . |
| 18 | we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ? |
| 19 | Review and report on the proportion of schemes included in works programmes which have casualty reduction as the primary objective . |
| 20 | The geology of the Shetlands was revised and work on the Outer Hebrides is in progress . |
| 21 | We sit and concentrate on the crossword , we do n't kind of , unless we get it done quick , which is is n't very often . |
| 22 | The chest may be painful and they hold it when coughing and lie on the painful side to keep it still and put pressure on it . |
| 23 | Against : NCM must standardise the components supplied or improve on the instruction manual . |
| 24 | We will see that happen on the site of Jericho in our fifth chapter . |
| 25 | During the Cienfuegos speech Castro confirmed that work on the Juraga nuclear power plant in Cienfuegos , the construction work on which was begun in 1972 and which was now 90 per cent complete at an estimated cost of US$1,000 million , had been halted indefinitely for lack of funds . |
| 26 | As windows open and close on the Macintosh screen , the SonicFinder makes impressive whooshing sounds . |
| 27 | In this chapter and others , we describe and comment on the strategies for professional development adopted and/or commended , ranging from day-to-day collaboration in the classroom , as discussed above , to whole-school strategies such as those explored in Chapters 3 and 6 , and LEA courses and the work of advisers which we consider in Chapter 7 . |
| 28 | Describe and comment on the technique of random sampling . |
| 29 | Describe and comment on the techniques of quota and judgement sampling . |
| 30 | 2 ) Describe and comment on the role of the sales forecast in the operation of a business . |