Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] on [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Pat told me that he 'd been pleased with what I 'd said on Day to Day I felt better ; I could n't have coped with his disapproval as well . |
| 2 | Once upon a time Camille would have dipped her oar in here : she would have turned on Brian for attacking her mother or chided her mother in no uncertain terms for being a drunken slut . |
| 3 | As soon as she returned from Cornwall , having called on Liza at Four Winds , she rang up Freddie and suggested a date . |
| 4 | Had they been anywhere else but on the sleekly beautiful boat she would have rounded on Nathan with a devastating tirade and cut the ground from under his feet . |
| 5 | ‘ He could have remained on Rhodes until the eleventh . |
| 6 | The content was precisely the same sort of thing as the play 's having begun on Saturn with Helen of Troy in the audience , which never happened . |
| 7 | Pam became hooked on Medau after joining Molly Braithwaite 's London Polytechnic class early in the 1960s while living in Wimbledon ; she moved to Essex in 1975 and was overjoyed to find that Medau flourished there too . |
| 8 | Marshall suggested that a quarter of all the acid rain which had fallen on Norway in the previous century had come from Britain . |
| 9 | She and her husband , Jan , were on the next farm to Bruce , and they had looked on Bruce as a son . |
| 10 | If the British people had voted on Thursday for a Labour government , they would have run counter to the swing away from socialist prescriptions across the whole of the rest of Europe ; more , they would have signalled the rejection of everything that has been so painfully achieved since 1979 in making Britain a competitive modern society founded upon the doctrine of personal responsibility and enterprise . |
| 11 | He issued the text of his decree calling for a nationwide vote of confidence , and it omitted any reference to the special powers he had claimed on Saturday during a televised address . |
| 12 | It was strange to Fenella to know that presently the night would begin to die and that the pale grey and pink streaks of the new day would start to lighten the sky as it had done on Renascia before the Star Maps changed and the Dark Lodestar had sent out its hungry beckoning . |
| 13 | Ashrawi had said on Jordan on Nov. 9 that she and her fellow delegates had been given diplomatic protection by the USA and the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | The French troops were hidden by the folds of ground and by the woods and high crops , but the smoke was evidence enough that thousands of men had closed on Frasnes in the night to support the battalion of French skirmishers who had been baulked the previous evening . |
| 15 | In that year comparisons of Eliot with Pound were stimulated , and exacerbated , by the publication of what were called the ‘ drafts and transcripts ’ of The Waste Land ; that is to say , the heterogeneous packet of typescripts and manuscripts which Eliot had dumped on Pound in Paris , out of which Pound had helped Eliot to extricate the poem that for forty years had been known under that title . |
| 16 | Bogged down in Mexico and denied any support from Britain , Napoleon III had been unable to exercise any influence during the war which Prussia had forced on Denmark in 1864 and Bismarck was determined that there should also be no interference in the war which he now planned with Austria . |
| 17 | As he was never in contention , he will not have used up the sort of nervous energy expended by Chip Beck , who recovered the lead he had lost on Saturday to edge out Greg Norman and Mike Standly with a final round of 70 . |
| 18 | As there is every advantage to a team cheating , I thought it right that the sporting authorities had stomped on McLaren for an avoidable mistake , and I retain that view . |
| 19 | Now in spite of the heavy rain , thousands of spectators have converged on Henley for the one hundred and fifty-third Royal Regatta . |
| 20 | As we have waited on God as a group we feel part of our ministry will be intercession and praise . |