Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were lots of smaller snapshots of him sitting astride Trigger , or propped on cushions behind the steering-wheel of Buddie 's truck , or standing in the garden in his very smartest clothes . |
| 2 | Benefit was refused or withdrawn on grounds of ‘ cohabitation ’ ( as it was then called ) in about 8000 cases a year . |
| 3 | If you have too many pumpkin seeds they are delicious in stews or roasted on top of cheese on toast . |
| 4 | There were other dragons — gold , silver , black , white-flapping across the sun-shafted air on errands of their own or perched on outcrops of rock . |
| 5 | If either party has the option to require the instrument to be redeemed or cancelled and , under the terms of the instrument , it is uncertain as to whether such an option will be exercised , the term should be taken to end on the earliest date at which the instrument would be redeemed or cancelled on exercise of such an option . |
| 6 | The Act provides the following defences : that the damage was wholly due to the fault of the person suffering it ; that that person voluntarily accepted the risk of the damage ; and that the livestock was killed or injured on land on which it had strayed and either the dog belonged to the occupier or its presence on the land was authorised by the occupier . |
| 7 | Singly or in small clusters , they lay in chairs on the terrace or sprawled on rugs under the trees , some unashamedly asleep , others nodding over books , all as immobile as figures on a set of The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 8 | Beyond these basic costs , most stations offer a number of ‘ packages ’ such as run-of-week , or based on numbers of TVRs , where they may run your commercial at any time they like , as many times as they like , so long as your eventual cumulative audience reaches an agreed figure . |
| 9 | The lowest-level wastes could either be sent for sea disposal or dumped on land at a special site at Drigg , near Sellafield . |
| 10 | The box with the question mark — ? — operates only with boxes 3 or 4 highlighted and calls up the technique numbers or cast on numbers as lists . |
| 11 | All the way across not one stone moved or even trembled as she jumped on to it or swayed on top of it or clutched at the sides of it ! |
| 12 | Outmoded this view might be , but most of us would still prefer to try on new clothes , wax hair off our legs , perform our ablutions or put on make-up in private . |
| 13 | Furthermore , of those convicted of lesser offences than rape many were fined ( £30 was the highest fine ) or put on probation for a year or two . |
| 14 | Fish , meat and cheese pastes do not combine successfully with vol-au-vent cases , pastry or biscuits , but in sandwiches or spread on fingers of coarse brown bread they will be greeted as a blessed change from sticky canapes and messy dips . |
| 15 | Longer hair , whether chin- or waist-length , can be softened and made to look more feminine — whether left loose or piled on top of your head . |
| 16 | The Funding Council shall not — ( a ) be regarded as the servants or agents of the Crown ; ( b ) have any status , immunity or privilege of the Crown , and their property shall not be regarded as property of , or held on behalf of , the Crown . |
| 17 | Although based on research of lasting value , the draft Articles on service of documents rest overmuch on United States perceptions and would not have survived the sort of examination to which they would have been exposed at an international diplomatic conference . |
| 18 | The England batsman 's TCCB fine of £5,000 with £1,000 costs for his newspaper revelations was more than halved on appeal to the Cricket Council . |
| 19 | I have pleasure in enclosing your copy of the Memorandum of Agreement for the above tape , which has been signed and witnessed on behalf of the Press . |
| 20 | I have pleasure in enclosing your copy of the Memorandum of Agreement for the above tape , which has been signed and witnessed on behalf of the Press . |
| 21 | We knew also that we could get Lisboa Military on the ground at Viseu , and checked on arrival at the field and on taxying out that the weather was good at Port — that is , there were no CBs . |
| 22 | Bilzerian had been convicted of securities fraud by a federal jury in New York on June 9 , following evidence from Boyd Jefferies , a Los Angeles stockbroker convicted for securities fraud in the Ivan Boesky affair [ see pp. 36017-18 ] , who had been fined $250,000 and placed on probation for five years in July 1989 . |
| 23 | An anti-divorce video was released by the Catholic Communications Institute of Ireland and placed on sale in the Veritas Bookshop in Dublin . |
| 24 | The Treaty of Tlatelolco was signed on 20 December , 1967 , and ratified on behalf of Britain by the Wilson government on 11 December , 1969 . |
| 25 | Former club steward Peter Bishton , 34 , of Corporation Road , Darlington , charged with stealing nearly £4,000 Christmas savings from Richmond Comrades Club , was committed for trial at crown court by Richmond magistrates and remanded on bail until April 7 . |
| 26 | Lewis 's branch resolved not to remit funds to London Head Office until a full investigation of its financial affairs had been carried out and , when this proposal was accepted and undertaken on behalf of the Executive Committee and reforms proposed and instituted , refused to accept these and severed its connection with Wilson 's organisation . |
| 27 | The researchers infected cells with both the plasmid and the virus , and relied on similarities between the vaccinia genes in the virus itself and those they had put in the plasmid to ensure that occasionally , the two would recombine . |
| 28 | Langres , a fortress town enclosed by four kilometres of ancient ramparts and perched on top of a 100-metre-high plateau , some seventy-five kilometres north of Dijon and the Côte de Beaune , dominates the Marne valley . |
| 29 | But one thing I can tell you about Port Vale , the ground has vastly changed from last season , the terracing 's been improved , their seating , it 's pure luxury apart from the press box , because I still have to climb that suspect wooden ladder , and perched on top of the main stand is a shed where I 'm speaking to you from Jane . |
| 30 | The Tony Castro-designed Juno IV was comfortably ahead of the other boats of her size and won on handicap by over a minute . |