Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderson has Kelly on the ropes with the telephone chat-up technique he started on radio . |
| 2 | Pushing past old Diggory , she swept into the hall , cast one angry glance around , and found Theda on the stairs . |
| 3 | ‘ Although I 'm champion and it 's been a wonderful year I feel I ca n't truly call myself the title holder until I beat Joey on the roads . ’ |
| 4 | Daphne , whom Cecilia suspected of being rather less well-off than she was herself , though this was not a matter to delve into , phoned her just after six on alternate evenings and she phoned Daphne on the others . |
| 5 | After one year Charles suddenly divorced Desiderata on the grounds that she was barren and weak . |
| 6 | If England were to decline to tour India on the grounds of safety , other countries might not be so willing to visit there for a one-day jamboree . |
| 7 | In Kendal the Duke of Perth 's horsemen were stoned and attacked by a mob armed with clubs , and as they approached Clifton on the outskirts of Penrith they came under fire from militiamen hidden behind the hedgerows . |
| 8 | Suddenly he thumped the arm of his chair with his fist , remembering all the times he 'd caught Stella on the stairs in the middle of the night , staring at the telephone . |
| 9 | He listened to her intently , even with deference , and Riven , remembering Hugh on the occasions when he had met Jenny , thought that perhaps there was a twisted sort of logic to this world after all . |
| 10 | Dathan and Abiram challenge Moses on the grounds of high-handedness and his failure to bring them into the promised land ( 13–14 ) . |
| 11 | The kitchen was scented with the rich enticing smell of spices and dried fruits , and Alexandra met Lyddy on the stairs carrying down the cream silk evening gown to be pressed . |
| 12 | Norman met Lester on a Housemartins tour ; out-and-out indie group that expired before James Brown 's Funky Drums became the backbone to every white dance record . |
| 13 | Shelley , Mary Shelley and Claire Clairemont , fleeing England after the scandal caused by their triangular relationship , meet Byron on the shores of Lake Geneva . |
| 14 | I was out of the flat before she could turn her head and as I passed Springsteen on the stairs , I said : ‘ You 're on your own , kid . ’ |
| 15 | The Board of Anglo-Welsh announces a revised offer to acquire Palatine on the terms and subject to the conditions set out below . |
| 16 | When I heard Richard on the stairs , I emptied the ash tray into a drawer : he never smoked himself and disliked my doing so . |
| 17 | He kissed Tallis on the lips , then watched her eyes . |
| 18 | Kissing Lizzy on the lips , she pushed back her hair from her face and tried valiantly to smile . |
| 19 | This finding was fully supported by the evidence of Dr. G. , a consultant psychiatrist specialising in anorexia nervosa , who examined W. on the instructions of the Official Solicitor at a time when he was acting as W. 's guardian ad litem . |
| 20 | In the next years he translated Weiss on the Psalms , published an introduction to Barth 's Church Dogmatics and continued to write . |
| 21 | According to the script of Shearer 's homecoming party , the £3.6 million prodigal son was due to compound besieged Southampton manager Ian Branfoot 's unpopularity on the south coast with the winner which kept Blackburn on the tails of Championship leaders Norwich . |
| 22 | All week Bangor folk have been stopping Flanagan on the streets of his home town to ask : ‘ Are n't you sorry now you left ? ’ |
| 23 | I met Susan on the stairs . |
| 24 | Following a precedent set by The Stone Roses , who broke free from the Silvertone label by claiming that they were tied to an unfair contract , Michael is to sue Sony on the grounds that his deal is restrictive and financially inadequate . |
| 25 | Corbett nodded and clapped Ranulf on the shoulders . |
| 26 | Given that the planning margin ( spare generating capacity above maximum demand ) could be trimmed from its present high value of 28 per cent , there is then no case , as the CEGB itself admits , for immediately building Sizewell on the grounds that the board will be short of capacity without it . |
| 27 | I honestly do n't think they would object to my marrying Madeleine on the grounds of my birth . |
| 28 | The usual reward for a dedication at the time , according to Korshin , was about £10 , the amount Chesterfield gave Johnson on the proposals for his dictionary . |
| 29 | Indeed , the leadership of the Communist party were more concerned with opposing fascism abroad , recruiting for the Spanish Civil War and developing trade union activity and housing associations than with fighting Mosley on the streets . |
| 30 | The remit of the Technology Foresight steering group includes overseeing the collection of information on scientific opportunities and potential market applications , and with consultation from researchers and industrialists , to produce working documents that will advise CST on the technologies that they judge to be of most importance to the country 's economy . |