Example sentences of "[verb] on [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central News followed their activities over Christmas- our cameras and microphones eavesdropping on a party conversation . |
| 2 | Central News followed their activities over Christmas- our cameras and microphones eavesdropping on a party conversation . |
| 3 | Gloucestershire are continuing to struggle on the cricket field . |
| 4 | A room status change can be initiated either by hotel staff entering a code manually on the bedroom telephone , or automatically by the Hotel Manager if , for example , a name is entered or deleted on the guest file . |
| 5 | They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped . |
| 6 | The earliest the Treasury could act on the tax front , would be March 1991 . |
| 7 | A Christmas stocking — no , a pair of red tights , actually — filled up to here with pound notes that we 'd won on a strawberry roan named Cordelia . |
| 8 | However , the Irishman countered well and with the scores at eight each the Dubliner eventually won on a count back of 30–28 . |
| 9 | The main menu enables you to play a single match or the Sea Cup , change the number of sets and toggle points won on the service change . |
| 10 | Rachel had stopped to buy candyfloss for her little gang when she saw Belinda waving the yellow fluffy duck Alf had won on the rifle range towards someone in the crowd . |
| 11 | Hughes had been wounded on the cutting edge of stand-up comedy . |
| 12 | ‘ … and three of our aircraft have failed to return , ’ the man who read the news would intone on the midday bulletin . |
| 13 | Gold lace trimming on the tricorn hat was the only relief . |
| 14 | There is a real danger here that other publishers could jump on the Reed bandwagon , and force wholesalers to buy at less advantageous discount and credit terms . ’ |
| 15 | The two had met up again when Packford helped on the Wapping Post . |
| 16 | He says ’ It could be solved … but in that case it would mean paying twice … the cost would fall on the poll tax payer . |
| 17 | As the elder boy and Lan turned away in relief , the mandarin let his hand fall on the bamboo cane ; he rolled it between his fingers for a moment before glancing up at his younger son again . |
| 18 | I 've asked them as well and this might take them into the second week er to start with their pupils process on a Wednesday morning whereby in each classroom there would be a me master year plan even if it means they have to buy four and divide it up but I su I suggest that I would do something , you know , produce one and on that they will write pertinent to the the form to the form er and continue to add on that over , you know as and when it 's relevant er , dates for completion of course work , it might be module testing etcetera and I 'm going to ask at briefing that any anything that a teacher has put down for children , it might be just you know Mi Mr x's group is mentioned at briefing so they can write down what 's pertinent to them and therefore |
| 19 | Erm I think it 's important to recognize in rail terms that erm the east coast main line , erm particularly obviously er the section heading north , British Rail would not allow er a new station opening on the east coast main line , so you have to confine yourselves to looking at those which have a a regional railway route . |
| 20 | Lord Lawson lines up alongside other members of the old guard such as Lord Howe , the late Lord Ridley and Lady Thatcher herself , who have been banging on the monetarist drum with the message that the deficit is one of the keys to the economy . |
| 21 | His fingers opened , the knife bounced on the trampoline webbing and fell through into the sea . |
| 22 | cracked on the kitchen table |
| 23 | ‘ Then you 'll doubtless be delighted to learn that I have n't cried since the day I decided to go boating on the duck pond at home , only to find when I was halfway across that my rowing-boat was holed . |
| 24 | Very often I dined on a banana split , which was enormous : it consisted of a whole banana , three scoops of ice cream , syrup and whipped cream and only cost 25 cents ; we also lived on delicatessen sandwiches and salads and were so excited with the automats where we put our money in and out popped coffee . |
| 25 | The three bassets were already in residence , draped snoring on the fireside rug , but they seemed to be used to Debbie because two of them sniffed her in a bored manner and the third merely cocked a sleepy eye at her before flopping back on the rich pile . |
| 26 | Now , of course , with every race counting towards the championship , points earned on a Sunday afternoon matter like never before . |
| 27 | The deposit does constitute clients ' money and the seller is entitled to interest earned on the deposit money in accordance with the provisions of the Financial Services Act 1986 . |
| 28 | The return on this strategy is the difference between the value of the cash index at the end of the year and the futures price plus the interest earned on the money market investment : . |
| 29 | The cost-of-carry equals the interest cost of holding the cash bond less the accrued interest earned on the cash bond before it is delivered into the futures market on the delivery day ( i.e. , d = rc ) . |
| 30 | Lancashire colliers seem to have been able to earn around 1s 9d ( 8½p ) a day by 1786 , rather less than the 2s 3d ( 11p ) then being earned on the Yorkshire coalfield , let alone the 3s ( 15p ) for which Staffordshire miners were then striking . |