Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 I send them on regular trips abroad to keep up to date with new technology … ’
5 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 ’ .
6 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 .
7 To begin with Gyggle tried me on sensory deprivation .
8 However , for patients in their forties it is usually a simple matter to establish them on similar insulin regimens to the Type I patients .
9 A particularly interesting feature of the trestle piers was the method used for founding them on irregular river beds .
10 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 .
11 ‘ MI5 approached me on Spanish holiday
12 But she had earned them on sheer merit .
13 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 .
14 She lifted her dark head high , determined to meet him on equal terms .
15 Rising stars like Phil Tufnell , Chris Lewis and Graeme Hick have never shared a dressing room with him purely as a team-mate , getting to know him on equal terms .
16 When path picks up line of iron fence continue to follow this , keeping it on left-hand side , to reach trig point on summit .
17 Being able to pick up a colour and press it on coloured paper was all very exciting .
18 The client takes out a second application , and they want it on minimum premiums , they actually get it for eighty per cent of the current value of the minimum premium .
19 All of that gives it a very encouraging sure-footedness once you try to throw it around a corner or two , or test it on poor road conditions .
20 I would do them on separate ones .
21 She confessed that Sally-Anne had written them on old ones Miss Laura had collected on earlier trips , and Miss Laura had posted them for her , to deceive us .
22 As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them .
23 ‘ I put all the ingredients together and put them on individual plates , but lots of people helped get the lobster out of their shells , and Alfred made the mayonnaise .
24 Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big .
25 Pour off the pulp , strain the seeds and spread them on absorbent paper to dry ; then store in a cool , dry place .
26 Ellen had gone to her one-room apartment in town while Thessy was reading his Bible in the main-cabin , so I heated myself some baked beans in Wavebreaker 's microwave , spread them on buttered toast , soaked them in brown sauce , then ate a morose supper on deck until the bugs drove me to the screened sanctuary of the staterooms below .
27 Wright , who lent him money that he never repaid , continued to consult him on technical matters after he left Derby ; Burdett in turn seems to have procured purchasers for some of Wright 's pictures , including Washington Shirley , fifth Earl Ferrers [ q.v. ] , and Catherine the Great .
28 Golden Friend also meets him on equal terms today .
29 Golden Friend also meets him on equal terms today .
30 Over the past few years , since she had broken off her engagement to Jean-Paul , he had seen her on various occasions — at balls in London , or at country-house weekends once at Christian Glendinning 's parents ' house , but they had spoken only briefly .
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