Example sentences of "[verb] on the [noun prp] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Charlie returned , he instructed Pet , ‘ Run over the road and knock on the McDougalls ' door . |
| 2 | Laughton refuses to be drawn on the Leeds ' target , but he is keen on Great Britain tour scrum half Deryck Fox , valued at £150,000 after telling Featherstone he was determined to leave before the start of the new season . |
| 3 | Organisers held full safety checks on the Migs ' routine were held last week . |
| 4 | By this time the Harringtons had a further hold on Edward 's gratitude , having joined him promptly on his return in 1471 , and they had also secured a new and influential patron in the person of the duke of Gloucester , who may already have intervened on the Harringtons ' side in 1470 . |
| 5 | By this time the Harringtons had a further hold on Edward 's gratitude , having joined him promptly on his return in 1471 , and they had also secured a new and influential patron in the person of the duke of Gloucester , who may already have intervened on the Harringtons ' side in 1470 . |
| 6 | He had kept away from the house , not wanting to intrude on the Bonnards ' private grief . |
| 7 | Coinciding with an exhibition at the RIBA , ‘ Design Classics : Charles and Ray Eames ’ , Christopher Wilk , Curator of the Furniture and Woodwork Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum will lecture on the Eames ' furniture designs on 20 November . |
| 8 | The nominal subject of such quarrels is of course secondary to the couple 's need to hurt each other , but in this case it appeared to centre on the Parsons ' childlessness . |
| 9 | Gould grew to depend on the Aborigines ' local knowledge to find birds that were new to the Western world and to learn about their habits . |
| 10 | Zach was sitting on the Littles ' dilapidated gate waiting for him . |
| 11 | The charter focuses on the SSDs ' key tasks : assessment ; designing care packages ; developing contracting and purchasing ; quality assurance ; and complaints and inspection . |