Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The floor machine was in the living room , the long black thing that Marcus rubs on the carpet snaking in front of the sofa . |
| 2 | Denis Irwin chipped a nice ball to Steve Staunton on the left wing and Aldridge got on the end of a fiercely-driven centre . |
| 3 | Suddenly , it seemed , the war was over at last , and Churchill announced on the wireless that 8 May would be Victory in Europe Day . |
| 4 | In the following year the duc de Richelieu , the French chief minister , sent an agent to Switzerland , Germany and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to report on the press there and the possibility of France influencing it in her favour . |
| 5 | Oldham 's superiority was not confirmed until the 80th minute when Sharp completed his first treble since his summer move from Everton : Chamberlain blocked Ritchie 's effort , and the Scot pounced on the rebound . |
| 6 | United showed more appetite for the game and should have gone in front after nine minutes when Ferguson got on the end of Clark 's free-kick . |
| 7 | Jim lived on the edge between life and death , he straddled the fence , and his balls hurt . |
| 8 | Have Severn Trent got on the bandwagon yet , for tidying up the water in Brussels . |
| 9 | Taking a broader perspective , Mira remarks on the situation at large . |
| 10 | Tsu Ma drew on the cheroot again , then looked up , meeting his eyes . |
| 11 | Sophie concentrated on the sweetness of the apple and by the time she had gathered drops of juice along her tongue , Lori was below her , lying on the turf and crying because she had fallen in the near-dark . |
| 12 | Relieved that she had not betrayed her real feelings , Sophie concentrated on the morning surgery , which , however , was not very busy . |
| 13 | The E C C rather inward looking Even Turkey is knocking on the door , what are your Poland , Hungary , Romania knocking on the door and coming in . |
| 14 | The La lies on the watershed of the main Karakoram and although we were still politically in India , geographically we had reached the valleys of Central Asia . |
| 15 | Teller did not succeed in attracting more than a handful of Oppenheimer 's brilliant team back to Los Alamos to work on the H-bomb . |
| 16 | Okay , so there is some deaf and elderly pensioner in Hartlepool who has pictures of Prince Edward pinned on the toilet seat but I know streams of people who ca n't wait to get rid of them . ’ |
| 17 | A kilogram or two of surgical plaster or plaster-of-Paris depending on the size of the housing ( you can buy powdered plaster at a chemist 's shop ) ; a dish to act as a mould for casting the plaster block-the dish can be any size from 10 cm × 20 cm up to about 20 cm × 20 cm , but should have a flat bottom and sides that slope slightly outward ; a sheet of glass to cover the housing ; a sheet of black cardboard ; Plasticine ; small blocks of wood or small plastic boxes ( the round boxes used for typewriter ribbons are very suitable ) ; cotton-wool . |
| 18 | Wright turns on the style |
| 19 | The Palestinian need for Jordan seemed to be borne out during the years 1983–6 when the PLO lived on the edge of political extinction . |
| 20 | Captain Meredith trembled on the edge of violence , then whirled round shouting : ‘ Midnight , you ugly devil , get that box back on your shoulder and take your lazy body out of this place . |
| 21 | But I shall never lead a normal life because I 'm so short — we 're both short — that 's why Tilda stands on the deck half the day , it 's because somebody told her that you only grow taller while you 're standing up . |
| 22 | The seminars for Romanian lawyers given in Iasi and Bucharest concentrated on the structure of a legal profession and practical aspects of management of a law practice . |
| 23 | Here he must have had further contact with Scott , who became Surveyor to the Fabric of the Abbey in 1846 , particularly in connection with the Broad Sanctuary houses , which Scott built on the Abbey 's land between 1852 and 1854 . |
| 24 | Bosnia-Hercegovina stands on the edge of an abyss . |
| 25 | The little museum is particularly rich in classical objects because the modern town of Alea stands on the site of ancient Tegea , the capital of Arcadia . |
| 26 | The talks between Israel and Syria concentrated on the status of the Golan Heights and were believed to have taken place in an atmosphere of tension and hostility . |
| 27 | Corbett concentrated on the mystery surrounding King Alexander 's death but the visions he had seen in the Pictish village returned to haunt him . |
| 28 | The awe-inspiring site of Stonehenge appearing on the horizon , as one crosses Salisbury Plain , never fails to cast a spell over the traveller . |
| 29 | He also made it clear that he was against black boycotts organized around the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico , at which Thommie Smith and John Carlos demonstrated on the victory rostrum with a gloved black power salute . |
| 30 | In 1989 a BGS engineer was seconded for six months to the Ocean Drilling Program ( ODP ) in Texas to work on the development of a downhole vibropercussive corer . |