Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] on [noun] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A man has gone on trial for the murder of his girlfriend 's cousin outside a social services office . |
| 2 | A MAN has gone on trial for the murder of a security guard clubbed to death while patrolling a Craigavon housing estate . |
| 3 | Joe , who has worked on site for more than 30 years , is a founder member of the National Campaign for the Nuclear Industry . |
| 4 | In Poland Big Bang has piled on pain for consumers in the hope of taming inflation . |
| 5 | Heat treatment , self-help on the patient 's part , and rehabilitation of the affected muscles by massage and exercise were the tenets of her faith — and I had to admit that a great deal of what she practised depended on scorn for the accepted methods of treatment with splints , braces , and corsets which only assisted the patients in coping with unhealed limbs , not in any actual sense curing them . |
| 6 | As media coverage persisted and grew even more sensational , ‘ league tables ’ developed based on reputations for toughness . |
| 7 | A few dealers accepted the fines as a matter of course , especially as accumulated funds got spent on drinks for everybody in the local pub on Friday night . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Brian Mahon might have skimped on comfort for the rest of the house , but his daughter 's bedroom had the best of everything . |
| 10 | Lots of girls got put on report for wearing each other 's clothes — usually for visits , when they 'd want to borrow something that looked good . |
| 11 | I remember when I 'd been there only two weeks I almost got put on report for smoking in the avenue . |
| 12 | I done that twice , and got put on report for it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Daph had decided on cream for the walls of the bedroom but when we went to the paint store she discovered that the word cream covered a multitude of shades . |
| 15 | I just know that I would n't sacrifice the experiences I 've had on drugs for anything . ’ |
| 16 | Masklin had stayed on guard for a while , but he was n't certain what he was guarding against . |
| 17 | It was the time that the women machinists at Ford had gone on strike for equal pay , a struggle that was to continue , intermittently , for the next eighteen years . |
| 18 | The High Court in Edinburgh heard how Alan Smith had preyed on youngsters for more than a decade . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 21 | When you 've lived on subsistence for two years what do you do when your shoes wear out , when you get a £100 fuel bill , when the washing machine breaks down , when a pair of children 's shoes cost you more than you 'd spend on your own ? |
| 22 | Over the past 165 years , thousands of householders in some 40 Ulster towns and villages have depended on gas for their lighting , heating , and cooking . |
| 23 | So we 're trying to encourage the equipment suppliers now to look again at what they have won on business for Eurofighter and perhaps allocate the work between themselves a lot more efficiently so that instead of each one of the four members building a given percentage of the five items , they say right we 'll take this one , all of it and we 'll build all of it , you take that one , all of it and build that one and so on an and in that way we might be able to er er improve considerably on the costs of production . |
| 24 | The HarperCollins discussions have focused on terms for small orders and credit periods . |
| 25 | Two men have gone on trial for the murder of a police informer , whose body was found weighted down in a lake three years ago . |
| 26 | Three men have gone on trial for the killing of twin sisters who were trapped in a blazing barn . |
| 27 | But now she 's gone on holiday for a whole month and so we do n't have a drier . |
| 28 | We have led on proposals for environmental labelling of products , for environmental reporting by companies , for public access to information , and on directives as diverse as the nitrates directive and forthcoming tighter controls over emissions from cars and heavy diesels . |
| 29 | Now in spite of the heavy rain , thousands of spectators have converged on Henley for the one hundred and fifty-third Royal Regatta . |
| 30 | So far , discussions have centred on certification for British Sign Language interpreters . |