Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] on an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was here that the great receptions and gala balls took place , though it was not the setting for the traditional New Year 's ambassadorial reception as described by Hubner , which was that of the Throne part played by the Empress , since this was her first appearance at such a function and it thus enables us to observe her on an occasion of high formality : |
| 2 | On the contrary , Freud says , basing it on an illusion is , is very very dangerous . |
| 3 | On Dec. 16 the Netherlands authorities expelled 43 Russian Jews and put them on an aeroplane to Israel after their applications for asylum were turned down ; a further nine were expelled on Dec. 23 . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , look , ’ I say , ‘ put me on an identity parade — ’ |
| 5 | It 's been enormously successful because we 've done it on an activist basis so that activists have met one another , all those prejudices and all those stereotypes have immediately vanished as soon as people have stayed in one another 's homes and realized that people have the same problems , they have the same , they have the same problems and the same difficulty er as difficulties as we do . |
| 6 | ‘ We know that , Mr Vigo , ’ he said , wrenching his eyes away and fixing them on an eggshell thin service , made to contain jasmine tea . |
| 7 | So next time you 've got something important to say , make sure you print it on an HP LaserJet . |
| 8 | Tolstoy first published ‘ Anna Karenina ’ in 1918 and based it on an event he himself witnessed . |
| 9 | We based ours on an example of more than 700 . |
| 10 | Could you ask them at the meeting next week if they would like us on an outing to Denman because they 're , a lot of them do n't really know what Denman is do they ? |
| 11 | Hashim Ciftci told the Today newspaper that he shot cameraman Nick della Casa and his assistant Charles Maxwell after they hired him to guide them on an expedition to film fighting between the Iraqi army and Kurdish rebels in the mountains of northern Iraq . |
| 12 | This exciting pop musical takes you on an adventure deep into the woods . |
| 13 | I had to find her a flat , move her in , go to the Electricity Board , and then her husband Monica 's one of those who need a mother , someone who takes her on An idea came into Alice 's head of such beautiful and apt simplicity that she began laughing quietly to herself . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've known and loved it over the years , and always wanted to put it on an album . |
| 15 | Why did you have to put it on an island ? |
| 16 | When I get my first wage packet let's blow it on an outing somewhere . |
| 17 | ‘ I am to believe that they dare to send you on an assignment without discussing it with you , señorita ? |
| 18 | The police already employed him on an item of service basis , and paid generously enough for each case . |
| 19 | Sometimes Mother Francis and Miss Pine from the dress shop would take her on an outing to Dublin , but she had never stayed away a night . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , and we could also try her on an identity parade , see if she can remember him . ’ |
| 21 | Kerrison is doing it on an item of service basis . |
| 22 | Victor : he 's one of those guys you used to see in spunky films about British Tommies — sit him on an ammo box in the back of a rolling three-tonner and he 's asleep in a twinkling . |
| 23 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
| 24 | Someone would carve it on an adamantium monument . |
| 25 | ‘ He put me on an iron tonic which bucked me a little . |
| 26 | Many firms do them on an exchange basis . |
| 27 | They put him on an airliner . |
| 28 | He put her on an elimination diet , and within two weeks her bowels were functioning normally , for the first time in many years . |
| 29 | All you do , is you mark it on an item if you 're gon na do the television do not do the screens , because every time you turn on up will come your postcode . |
| 30 | EXPLORER Gerald Kingsland , 62 — who inspired the film Castaway — has had scores of replies to an ad for a girl to join him on an island . |