Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun pl] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Riot police in Oxford clashed with youths over three nights from Sept. 1 after a police crackdown on " hotting " — racing stolen cars through Blackbird Leys estate at high speed ; a woman suffered severe stab wounds during clashes on Sept. 3 . |
| 2 | Or the taut handling of a sports saloon on winding country lanes … |
| 3 | I have a vision of resident tutors beating up classes with the cheerful persistence of a sports organiser on a trans-Atlantic liner ; of extra-mural directors deploying their forces through the English countryside , themselves deciding what classes are suitable for the people of Swindon and Banbury and Slough ; of district organisers calling on mill hands in the remotest dales of Yorkshire with the regularity of the man who collects the rent … |
| 4 | Irrespective of its formal purpose to introduce community policing , the appearance of a neighbourhood patrol restricts its effects to simply the demonstration of a police presence on the streets . |
| 5 | ‘ I am very pleased at the progress made and hope the concept of a watersports centre on the Lagan becomes a reality in the near future , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Six goals … two penalties … a sending off … a carrying off … a touchline bust-up … the Manor Ground was like a fireworks factory on saturday as Denis Smith kicked off his reign as manager of Oxford United |
| 7 | From the 1840s public anxiety had also been focused on prostitution , the ‘ great social evil ’ , by studies from evangelical clerics and medics , and by rescue and reform societies campaigning for a police crackdown on the London streets . |
| 8 | I ask him about his days as a commodities broker on Wall Street — Koons spent his days as a struggling artist working on Wall Street rather than starving in a garret — and he directed his answer to Ilona , because the anecdote shows the charming , apple-pie side of his nature . |
| 9 | Four of the casualties received serious injuries when the device ripped through a gents lavatory on Platform Four . |
| 10 | Imports fell by 8 per cent ; the trade surplus reached US$976 million , with a balance-of-payments surplus on the current account of $389 million . |
| 11 | Those accused , besides Ransome Kuti and the two CD activists arrested with him on May 18 [ see p. 38900 ] , were the prominent human rights lawyer Gani Fawehinmi , arrested at his Lagos home on May 29 , and the president of the banned National Association of Nigerian Students ( NANS ) , Olusegun Mayegun , who was arrested with a NANS colleague on June 11 at Lagos University . |
| 12 | I DID my National Service with a Guards regiment on the East German border in 1948 — but there was still some fraternisation with the Russians , usually in the bar at some remote border village . |
| 13 | Robert Heslop , 70 , of Tanfield Lea , Stanley , Co Durham , died from head injuries after being in an accident with a police car on Saturday night while crossing a road . |
| 14 | Five nights of street violence and looting took place in Vaulx-en-Velin , a dormitory suburb of Lyon with a large immigrant population , following the death of a young motorcycle passenger , Thomas Claudio , in a collision with a police car on Oct. 6 . |
| 15 | The committee is planning a number of events for early in the new year , including a Skittles Night on Saturday 20 February in the Corstorphine Inn . |
| 16 | Labour is accusing Mrs Thatcher of dodging a discussion on Britain 's entry into the Euro Monetary System ; they say she 's chosen to avoid speaking in a Commons debate on the issue because she 's humiliated by the U-turn entry has meant for her . |
| 17 | Mr Nagdi died in a police car on his way to hospital . |
| 18 | Letters have been flying between number ten and Mr Kinnock 's office over a Commons debate on Britain 's entry into the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 19 | Then she , too , was driven at very high speed to a police station on mainland Orkney for interrogation . |
| 20 | Comparisons are with restated figures to reflect the acquisition of Advanced Telecommunications Corp on a pooling-of-interests basis on December 1992 . |
| 21 | On May 18 a Byelorussian policeman was shot dead by Lithuanian personnel at a customs post on the Byelorussia-Lithuania border . |
| 22 | Guo Weichang had stabbed 20 women on Shanghai buses before he was seized by a police chief on the same bus as the 21st . |
| 23 | Pringle , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , was shot in the neck by a police marksman on Tuesday after 21-year-old Leanne Rees had been held at gunpoint for 47 hours . |
| 24 | A WOMAN badly injured when she was hit by a police car on a pedestrian crossing is likely to lose half of a £48,500 damages award after an appeal court ruling yesterday . |