Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( i ) If your salary grade is below PO1 ( that is below spinal column point 35 within the APT & C grades ) you are permitted to engage in extra mural employment provided it does not have any adverse effect on you performing the normal duties of your post . |
| 2 | SOUTHAMPTON manager Ian Branfoot paid tribute to United after his team had been thrashed and said : ‘ Put your money on them to win the title again . ’ |
| 3 | The shop floor had sawdust on it to absorb the dirt and bits of squashed fruit . |
| 4 | The results of research with such instruments would enable general practitioners to provide scientific evidence to managers on why they may be using more expensive management options for a particular illness when the managers exert pressure on them to use the cheapest . |
| 5 | But a lot of women tend to see Christmas through because there is pressure on them to keep the family together . |
| 6 | But Anne Rogers whose son James has been unconscious for six years says the ruling just puts pressure on her to do the same thing . |
| 7 | Poor Anna had been very indiscreet , the fascisti were going to arrest her or put pressure on her to leave the country for good , but he had been assured that if the principessa were to live again with him quietly in Rome nobody would touch her . |
| 8 | Eve had never felt remotely like a charity child , nor had there been any pressure on her to join the Order . |
| 9 | In many ways , we play our best football away from home because the responsibility and pressure on us to take the game to the opposition is not so great . |
| 10 | ‘ But what will you be saying if you see yourself in a month 's time with a list on you like the Leaning Tower of Pisa ? |
| 11 | Since other provinces were no better off , policing was a major issue ; but spending time on it impeded the development of representative institutions . |
| 12 | In my opinion Lord Roskill was undoubtedly right when he said in the course of the passage quoted that the assumption by the defendant of any of the rights of an owner could amount to an appropriation within the meaning of section 3(1) , and that the removal of an article from the shelf and the changing of the price label on it constituted the assumption of one of the rights of the owner and hence an appropriation within the meaning of the subsection . |
| 13 | Heating the water , well it heated if you 'd the fire on it heated the water and then you 'd take a couple of buckets out into the bath , plug a couple of buckets in . |