Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of those who met the future candidate on the Sailing Party were struck by his insatiable appetite for debate and a good time . |
| 2 | Hospitality : More beds are needed especially to accommodate the German team on Thursday , Friday and Saturday nights , and a few for Friday night only for long distance Medau performers — please ask in your classes ( ten mile radius from Croydon or along the route from Dover preferred ) and send offers to . |
| 3 | Soon after Mrs Thatcher came to power in 1979 she disbanded the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth , set up as a permanent body by the Labour government in 1974 to report periodically on changes in distribution trends . |
| 4 | ‘ My sister ! ’ he stated flatly , watching her , still allowing the rough grip on his hair . |
| 5 | The case against the defendant was indeed a strong one and for that reason their Lordships would not be prepared simply to recommend that an acquittal be ordered , but they do not feel able to say that the jury would inevitably have convicted , if the defence had been furnished in advance with the three statements in question and if the jury had received the accepted direction on evidence as to character and guidance from the trial judge on the problem , whatever it was , indicated when they first returned to court . |
| 6 | Taylor , however , is hoping that ‘ Gazza ’ may not need to wear the protective covering on his face against the Poles and has arranged for him to visit the surgeon who performed the original operation to check on his recovery so far . |
| 7 | Although the discovery of the double helix made it possible to understand how information might be stored in DNA , revolutionary advances in areas such as nucleotide sequencing and computing have been needed before people can contemplate recovering the stored information on a large scale . |
| 8 | Next development in that context involves the scheduled start on March 28 of a scheduled BA service to Los Angeles . |
| 9 | Giving her a look of disgust , he bent forward and flung the whole package on the fire . |
| 10 | When the charter to Maryland sought by George Calvert passed the Great Seal on 20 June 1632 Cecil Calvert was named the grantee , since his father had died earlier in the year . |
| 11 | Companies must comply with the Companies Act 1985 and display the following information on their stationery : |
| 12 | MPs belonging to the Jatiya Party boycotted the parliamentary session on June 12 in protest against the verdict . |
| 13 | anyway to go the other side on the other |
| 14 | Others have distinguished the classical emphasis on duty and virtue from the liberal emphasis on rights and freedoms ( e.g. Oldfield cited above ) . |
| 15 | Slater narrowed his eyes and straightened the tartan cap on his head . |
| 16 | Britain was later found guilty of breaching the European Convention on Human Rights and the ruling played a key role in forcing the Government to put MI5 on a statutory footing and create two tribunals to deal with complaints . |
| 17 | Who is that being here in London who could throw the cold earth on my coffin without a smile on his or her face ? |
| 18 | In June 1688 , James II 's wife , Mary of Modena , gave birth to a son ( later known as the ‘ Old Pretender ’ ) and the threat of a return to continuing Roman Catholic royalty caused six politicians with Bishop Compton of London , secretly to invite William of Orange , the leader of the Dutch against Louis XIV of France , to claim the English throne on behalf of his wife , Mary , the eldest daughter of James . |
| 19 | Anfield 's record-breaking striker is certain that neither Blackburn Rovers ' financial clout nor their present League position can ever console the Scot that he made the right decision on that dramatic day in February 1991 . |
| 20 | Sylvia had been repeatedly rehearsing her chosen situation for twelve days so that , when she made the actual attempt on the thirteenth , her performance too might be perfect . |
| 21 | This issue made the front page on the Daily Mail as well as its editorial . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) The government of the FRG , acting in full agreement with the GDR , made the following declaration on Aug. 30 , 1990 , in Vienna at the Negotiations on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe [ CFE ] : " The government of the FRG undertakes to reduce the personnel strength of the armed forces of the united Germany to 370,000 ( ground , air and naval forces ) within three to four years . |
| 23 | Even after the US Third Army under Patton made the crucial breakthrough on 31 July , Eisenhower had no immediate plans to liberate Paris . |
| 24 | Better Schools , which made the definitive statement on this general review , discussed teacher appraisal in the context of the management of the teaching force . |
| 25 | Power to enforce the general law on protection of consumers |
| 26 | The Zimbabwean government has reported that several countries have offered to buy 25 tonnes of its ivory stocks , worth £9 million , in order to destroy them , in an effort to enforce the international ban on the trade in ivory . |
| 27 | It took three minutes to erect the inner tent on its first outing but because it was raining constantly , the inner was a little wet before I had a chance to put the flysheet over . |
| 28 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 29 | Remember : pull the rig across to a balanced position using the front hand on the mast . |
| 30 | [ Now using the associative law on the left-hand side ] |