Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , there are hand knitters who would have us believe that we are cheating merely by producing knitting on a machine . |
| 2 | If you want to borrow money on an overdraft , ask your branch before doing so . |
| 3 | Erm we 've made a provision for interest payable on the loan on the assumption that we may have to borrow money on an overdraft basis . |
| 4 | i A coach tour operator has been fined £800 for allowing smoking on a coach tour which had been advertised as a smoke-free holiday . |
| 5 | Kevin , from Lymington , also beached flounder to 1 lb 12 oz using ragworm on a size 2 hook to 15 lb line . |
| 6 | Mercury may also lease channels on a satellite to carry TV programmes . |
| 7 | Patients sometimes make demands on a therapist which exceed what can reasonably be expected of a therapeutic relationship and which do not appear likely to help solve their problems . |
| 8 | According to the influential El Pais newspaper , Real 's president Ramon Mendoza has rebuked Toshack on a number of counts and is already seeking a replacement for the Welshman hired only last summer on a £1 million contract . |
| 9 | It was to be seven long years before I actually clapped eyes on a cuckoo in the wild — on a school camping holiday to the Scilly Isles , of all places — but that was in another life and another land , far from my roots in Colchester Park and Colchester Zoo . |
| 10 | This spring he faced a preliminary inquiry in Ontario , where the Crown was required to show that there was sufficient evidence to warrant a full trial on the charges , and , subsequently , the accused was ordered to stand trial on a number of charges , including criminal negligence causing bodily harm and aggravated sexual assault . |
| 11 | The most difficult task of all is to pass judgement on a child who has given his all , but whom I can no longer see reaching the goal I have set . |
| 12 | In Yule 's book , a reporter comments that if you interview Puttnam on a day when he is depressed , you will hear all about it . |
| 13 | When I trained as a reader , I had to write essays on a range of Biblical subjects , and then discuss them with a tutor . |
| 14 | It 's possible the doctor will opt for a Caesarian section , ’ the nurse explained briefly , checking notes on a clipboard . |
| 15 | Nothing could more eloquently express the nature of the Victorian railway system — a towering , splendid , multi-faceted edifice built four-square on a foundation of industry and trade . |
| 16 | A woman who found £40 on a bank floor has won a three-year battle to have it donated to a baby unit — and the bank has stumped up an extra £10 . |
| 17 | It is sometimes worth lobbying other members beforehand if you want support on an issue . |
| 18 | We could seek exile on an Eldar craftworld . |
| 19 | You capture light on a film . |
| 20 | The mere act of assembling data on a range of interventions gives greater prominence to the cost effectiveness data than does the reporting of the studies individually . |
| 21 | It contains articles on a range of topics that were originally presented at the Research in chemical education in the tertiary sector symposium held in Nottingham in September 1990 . |
| 22 | Stevie ( Robert Carlyle ) , a young Glaswegian just out of Barlinnie prison , travels to London to find work on a building site . |
| 23 | I 've tried to find work on a night time when my parents or my boyfriend could look after the kiddie but there just is n't that much of that kind of work around . |
| 24 | Our streets were invaded by two or three hundred coppers who normally would n't be able to find Deptford on a map . |
| 25 | He smears ointment on a strip of lint and lays the dressing gently across my wound . |
| 26 | The Library has installed CD-ROM on a workstation attached to the Library network . |
| 27 | Carrying large quantities of cash was dangerous and inconvenient , and trying to secure cash on a letter of credit could be extremely difficult . |
| 28 | This black comedy by Peter Bullock , his third production for the festival ( nominated in 1991 ) for the Best Theatre Award ) , encompasses the lives of evening shift workers on a telephone chatline . |
| 29 | Apart from an admission , the prosecution have to rely on catching the offender redhanded by keeping observations on a suspect or by British Telecom tracing a persistent caller when he is actually making a call etc . |
| 30 | In the devising and implementing of PNP the Authority 's advisory service was pivotal ; it did much to raise the profile of primary education in Leeds , and to secure development on a number of significant fronts . |