Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] on the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Petersburg 's major diplomatic goal had been to nullify the clauses of the Treaty of Paris which had disarmed Russia on the Black Sea . |
| 2 | The Minerals Group continued to maintain contact with the Minerals Industry Research Organisation ( MIRO ) by representing BGS on the MIRO Research Advisory Panel that is concerned with exploration , mining and geology . |
| 3 | Recently he captained Harlequins on the Saturday , flew to South Africa , was voted Man-of-the-Match playing for the South African Barbarians on the Monday and then returned to England for Quins ' league match against Leicester . |
| 4 | Whatever about the apparent failure of Desmond and his executives , is it not absolutely extraordinary that John V. O'Dwyer , of Arthur Cox , solicitor to and main board member of the Smurfit organisation , apparently did not brief Michael on the Independent 's retraction and the specific references to UPH and Desmond ? |
| 5 | As Randolph Churchill so eloquently described in The Fight for the Tory Leadership , Macmillan had seen Hailsham on the Monday before the Conference and indicated that in the event of retirement he would support his candidature . |
| 6 | In the last years of the reign , Charles was developing Compiègne on the River Oise as his " capital " : his Carlopolis . |
| 7 | The problem started for me at the end of a tough week when we played Leeds on the Sunday , then Everton in the Coca-Cola Cup on the Wednesday and Tottenham on Saturday . |
| 8 | I I 'm using LocoScript on the Amstrad and it 's adequate and I can then just port ASCII text files across into WordPerfect . |
| 9 | The headquarters ' 38-set ( see Appendix 5 ) could not contact Ryder on the MGB and Newman did not at first realise how few men were ashore . |
| 10 | The Microprocessor Report claims Motorola Inc , which just got together with SunSoft Inc to put Solaris on the PowerPC , will likely pursue a Microsoft Corp Windows NT port to attract other customers besides those it 's already got . |
| 11 | Hardly had the King reached Balmoral on the Saturday morning when the Prime Minister sent a message that it might after all be necessary for him to return to London . |
| 12 | The GIMMS commands and line segment data described above are stored in a file called PMMLIB.GIMMSAF on the Nottingham University ICL 3900 computer system , as described in the preceding paragraph . |
| 13 | It will have a bridge 5km ( 3.1 miles ) long linking Kawasaki on the Tokyo side to Chiba on the eastern shore . |
| 14 | Most disappointing non-appearance was undoubtedly Helen Hills , who had promised to speak on ‘ Sicilian Nuns in seventeenth-century Palermo : identity and marginalization ’ ; Ms Hills was , presumably , marginalised herself by the train and bus strike which hit London on the Friday . |
| 15 | And by the time the rafts reached Hereford on the Sunday , exhaustion was taking its toll . |
| 16 | Cologne fell to the Americans on 6 March , and next day their advance units reached Remagen on the Rhine . |
| 17 | In 1876 she was elected to represent Hackney on the London School Board . |
| 18 | But he saw Baldwin on the Sunday morning and told him that he had no doubt that Curzon would be chosen , although his own turn would come in due course . |
| 19 | ‘ Tolby said that Newley tried to ring Georgina on the Monday evening . |
| 20 | Leave Ross on the Walford road , fork right at The Prince of Wales public house , continue for 2–½ miles . |
| 21 | Bangladesh A member of BGS staff continued to advise ODA on the Barapukuria Coalfield Project , which covers exploratory drilling and site evaluation by British firms on contract to ODA . |
| 22 | We left Canjuers on the Monday morning and arrived later on that day at a small village , from where we would march back on foot to Orange . |
| 23 | As Saturday passed Boswell talked of leaving Dunvegan on the Monday ; Johnson said he would not budge until the Wednesday . |
| 24 | On 17 December ‘ Reynolds ’ and his wife ‘ Anne ’ , with Blake safely hidden away , left Britain on the Dover ferry to Ostend , drove across Belgium to West Germany and thence to a border crossing-point with East Germany where they arrived on 19 December . |
| 25 | Sprinter No 150279 — one of the 150/2 series built with gangwayed ends — in the Nantgarw Gap nearing Radyr on the Taff Vale main line . |
| 26 | The Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) had meanwhile captured Tio on the Red Sea coast on March 2 , and Edd by March 11 , coming within 160 km of Assab , the port through which the capital received most of its fuel supplies . |
| 27 | There are many fine performances of Sibelius No. 1 on the market , but it seems to me that two really stand out : the recently re-issued VPO/Maazel on the Decca ( part of a desirably all seven symphonies on ) , and the EMI BPO/Karajan ( also mid-price the Karelia Suite on ) . |
| 28 | Suddenly he could imagine George on the Sunday after that Saturday evening at the cottage exhausted by nightmares pacing the rooms and jumping whenever the phone rang . |