Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we asked to see the tape on Thursday , the Beeb said it had mysteriously disappeared without authorisation . |
| 2 | When the Secretary of State was helping to draft the declaration on the middle east peace process , did he have in mind the curfew that has been placed on the Nablus and Hebron areas and on the Al-Bireh area and did he have in mind the illegal occupation of the houses in the Silwan area of Jerusalem ? |
| 3 | Oh my god , well they 've estimated mine , it 's fifty five pounds eighty , I checked to see the numbers on it and it 's a hundred eight |
| 4 | Relations with Turkey had been strained since Oct. 1 , 1989 when the Turkish President , Turgut Ozal ( at the time Prime Minister ) , hinted that Turkey might reduce the flow of the Euphrates River if Syria failed to curb the attacks on Turkey by Kurdish separatists from Syrian-occupied eastern Lebanon . |
| 5 | Cripps drafted the agreement with his customary dexterity in skating round tricky comers , and they all met to finalise the agreement on Sunday evening , 26 January . |
| 6 | Where possible give her some task to carry out during the outing for example , helping to find the items on a shopping list . |
| 7 | One statement to which we take a major issue is that Dista Products failed to inform the Committee on Safety of Medicines about the way the drug behaved in the body of certain very elderly patients and that thus information was withheld from doctors for a period of 14 months from June 1981 . |
| 8 | He could n't wait to see the look on her face , he could n't wait to start his new life . |
| 9 | In all Compacts , the Partnership will also need to monitor the jobs on offer to ensure that they do provide " added-value " as a reward for rising standards . |
| 10 | He did n't need to see the look on her face . |
| 11 | And who even wants to see the beach on a miserable day like this ? ’ |
| 12 | I tried to see the expression on his face , but it was too dark . |
| 13 | He had n't expected to see the girl on a racecourse so soon after Ascot . |
| 14 | About two million visitors are expected to see the display on British scientific and technological breakthroughs , unravelling the mysteries of the Sun and monitoring the Earth 's health . |
| 15 | While alliances are intended to reduce insecurity and volatility , they are also designed to increase the pressure on competitors . |
| 16 | ‘ Someone has to provide the sites on a co-ordinated basis . |
| 17 | They see a place for a Bill of Rights , a written constitution and constitutional court ; they want to increase the checks on government through a more balanced constitution consequent upon the establishment of a reformed , elected , second chamber with increased powers of delay ; and they look to a revival of the position of Parliament and parliamentary government . |
| 18 | It is not an adaptation of society as a whole , and , Marx and Engels argue , it therefore has to hide the exploitation on which the dominant class relies . |
| 19 | Liabilities should be classified as current or non-current according to their strict contractual maturity , except where the same lender is firmly committed to refinance the debt on the same terms . |
| 20 | When researchers tried to mimic the results on other animals , such as chick embryos , it did not have the same effect . |
| 21 | I think they want to sell the papers on Saturday . |
| 22 | Nevertheless this speech , and the Yellow Book which formed its brief , helped to initiate the discussion on the common core curriculum . |
| 23 | You may need to clean the flanges on the end of the axle shaft slightly with a grinder to allow the wheels to fit over . |
| 24 | I want to answer the questions on jobs . |
| 25 | And to try to set the blame on Hector ! ’ |
| 26 | Using daughter boards , he said , protected customer investments in the box and power supplies : it means that DEC has to redesign the ASICs on the motherboard , but leaves plenty of room for additional cache on the back side of the board . |
| 27 | If I 'm in an audience I want to hear the solo on the record and see the guy pull it off live . |
| 28 | After the leak of the Interfor Report , counsel for the victims , families attempted to take a deposition from Aviv but Shaughnessy moved to quash the subpoena on the grounds that Aviv 's work was protected from discovery by the so-called attorney work-product doctrine . |
| 29 | In each lull between contractions memories of James tormented her , and with each new onslaught of pain she mentally tried to inflict the agony on him , cursing him for what he had done to her . |
| 30 | Here , I want to discuss the principles on which variables are selected for quantitative analysis . |