Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 2 | Tripoli postponed the elections until February ; Ajdabiyans confidently expected them on 1 February , and after that day the chairman of the local Assembly telephoned Tripoli each afternoon to ask if he should hold the poll . |
| 3 | Mrs Boswell had packed sheets in her husband 's luggage , and Joseph Ritter laid them on both beds . |
| 4 | Cos they had the , the expensive yarns and they produced them on these machines with very little waste . |
| 5 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |
| 6 | This , presumably , is because they make the journey at very great depths , far below the reach of drift nets or trawls and since they are no longer feeding there is little chance of catching them on baited hooks or in traps . |
| 7 | You ca n't fool me on that score . ’ |
| 8 | My family have sometimes joined me on these camps but are mainly content to be ‘ Guiding Orphans ’ as well as ‘ Medau Orphans ’ . |
| 9 | They 'll also get more local capability to off-load host processing , including a new Motif-run VT320 emulator , a local host chooser client , a local command shell and the ability to run local processes and display them on remote X displays . |
| 10 | And it 's to you , the readers , that we beg one week 's indulgence as we uncurl our lips , pat ourselves on that back and take you , in the next 46 pages , on a runaway rollercoaster ride through the stuff and nonsense , faces and fads , ecstatic highs and miserable lows that have littered 40 years of doing battle with the monster that is popular culture . |
| 11 | I send them on regular trips abroad to keep up to date with new technology … ’ |
| 12 | They would also remove any personal belongings which were removable and next day place them on prominent display , according to Polperro 's Quiller Couch , ‘ … to disclose the disgraceful want of vigilance supposed to characterise the owner ’ . |
| 13 | Before you oil your hands , place them on either side of your partner 's head . |
| 14 | It remained for the Spaniards to connect them in extended compositions and base them on secular songs as Cabezón did on the ‘ Canto del Caballero ’ and ‘ Guardame las vacas ’ or play them as so many Mass-movements and motets were even more incongruously played — on the lute . |
| 15 | To begin with Gyggle tried me on sensory deprivation . |
| 16 | However , for patients in their forties it is usually a simple matter to establish them on similar insulin regimens to the Type I patients . |
| 17 | True , a small band of bridge trolls tried to ambush them on one occasion , and a party of brigands nearly caught them unawares one night ( but unwisely tried to investigate the Luggage before slaughtering the sleepers ) . |
| 18 | A particularly interesting feature of the trestle piers was the method used for founding them on irregular river beds . |
| 19 | Being omnivores , badgers will get used to eating just about anything , though very little will interest them on rainy nights , when the chance of getting their favourite food — earthworms — is high . |
| 20 | ‘ MI5 approached me on Spanish holiday ’ |
| 21 | But she had earned them on sheer merit . |
| 22 | Villagers have fallen into the role of waiting for the nurse to cure their sicknesses , the agricultural extension worker to apply the latest gardening technique and government officers to inform them on political developments . |
| 23 | The Hampton Court maze has nothing on this lot . |
| 24 | The aunts are too busy criticising each other 's cooking to notice the small skirmish taking place up front : Jacob wrestling with the angel has nothing on several stone of reluctant Rosenbloom wrestling with an invisible me . |
| 25 | If everyone can manage this we will all be able to go on quietly shaving our heads , lighting our candles , starving ourselves on particular days of the year — and no-one will mind or probably even notice . |
| 26 | Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge . |
| 27 | Karadjordje 's attempt to impose himself on this structure by having himself declared ‘ Supreme Leader ’ created tensions which were never resolved during the nine years of his rebel regime . |
| 28 | The male 's usual pattern is to position himself on higher ground , above the females , keeping careful watch on their every move . |
| 29 | We must now turn our attention to the wider situation in which 5 Corps found itself on 10–12 May . |
| 30 | Denmark is their other northern commitment , and it is there that 2 RRP found itself on 30 June 1989 . |