Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marinello rose to fame on the back of one of Hibernian 's greatest eras . |
| 2 | Lunch on Saturday led to dinner on Monday . |
| 3 | When Will had disappeared from sight , Hari set to work on the slippers once more , they must be just so because Emily Grenfell was a good customer if a very exacting one . |
| 4 | Sarah came to tea on Sunday and when all the younger members of the family were in the parlour afterwards , Anne spoke about the talk of war . |
| 5 | As he grew older , the villages and tents and armies of this world were fading away but the white cities and the armies that lie beyond the senses shone more brightly by day and by night and Hamza hastened to death on roads lined by the army of Prophets . |
| 6 | A high-scoring match seemed a certainty when England went to lunch on the opening day with 108 on the board without loss . |
| 7 | Alan sets to work on a simple , single-layered bob by brushing hair through well with a Denman Traditional . |
| 8 | Yes ; it 's Sesame Street come to life on stage . |
| 9 | While her hair was set in large heated rollers to give fullness , Lizzie set to work on Angela 's make-up . |
| 10 | October 4 : Nick and Safaya Hemming 's well-known PA–22–160 Tri-Pacer tailwheel conversion G–JEST came to grief on a strip at Flecknoe , Warwickshire , when it failed to pick up speed during take-off for a flight to Honeydon . |
| 11 | Sharman returned to earth on May 26 with the Soviet cosmonauts Musa Manarov and Viktor Afanásiev , who had completed six months aboard the Mir space station . |
| 12 | By the time President Reagan came to office on 20 January 1981 he had plenty of reasons for wishing to emulate Henry II . |
| 13 | Er , there 's Marion going to work on bus gets to outside my dad 's club crash ! |
| 14 | President George Bush presented to Congress on Feb. 4 a $1,445,900 million budget request for the fiscal year 1992 ( beginning Oct. 1 , 1991 ) . |
| 15 | Bush presented to Congress on Feb. 4 , 1991 , a $1,445,900 million budget request for the fiscal year 1992 ( beginning Oct. 1 , 1991 ) . |
| 16 | Despite conceding large advantages of height and reach , Pyatt went to work on Harris 's body with solid shots to the solar plexus . |
| 17 | Both President Reagan and Mrs Thatcher came to power on a platform of military rhetoric with Reagan calling Russia an evil empire and Mrs Thatcher earning herself the title of the Iron Lady . |
| 18 | So , after the inevitable few months of bereavement , Amy went to work on herself , for herself . |
| 19 | There was only a large crater where the wool shop had stood so Maureen was free to stay with her mother and Anne went to work on Monday . |
| 20 | Chola went for a third time to fetch some water from the river while Mina and Kāli set to work on the outside of the house . |
| 21 | From the moment in 1979 when Mrs Thatcher swept to power on a wave of uncollected garbage following the ‘ winter of discontent ’ , her radical assault on social democracy and the welfare state was to be a continuing theme of the politics of the 1980s . |
| 22 | The United States space shuttle Columbia returned to Earth on Nov. 1 , ending a 10-day mission . |
| 23 | In the general election campaign Carter continued to harp on the need to clear up the ‘ mess ’ in Washington , constantly re-echoing the theme of his acceptance speech : ‘ We want to have faith again ! |
| 24 | The five vessels that would soon make history — the Vittoria ( now generally known as the Victoria ) , the Trinidada ( the Trinidad ) , the San Antonio , the Concepción and the Santiago — were small and , until Magellan set to work on them , hopelessly unseaworthy . |
| 25 | Foreign Affairs Minister Adrian Nastase affirmed to Parliament on June 24 , however , that Romania had no territorial ambitions toward the Soviet Union , and added that it " had to accept the idea that there are two Moldavian nations developing in their separate directions " . |
| 26 | But if it makes easy sense when we learn that after the ground clearing achieved in the early publications Joyce sets to work on an enormous new fictional venture , guesses about new preoccupations and the leaving behind of old collapse in face of the reality of Ulysses , for in it we read , among a thousand turnings and an wanderings , of a single day , the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and four , in Dublin , and how two characters , separately and together , live out that day among the welter of their acquaintance , their needs and deeds and thoughts , their places of refuge and of risk , and if one of these two , Leopold Bloom , is new , the other is Stephen Daedalus , and Dublin is everywhere in the novel , almost to the point where everywhere is Dublin . |
| 27 | Whitehall set to work on the implications of the Charter for postwar economic policy , but senior Ministers had no time to spare and the series of politicians who assumed responsibility for post-war planning had little weight in Cabinet . |
| 28 | Henry rose to fame on his own . |
| 29 | Mr Barton came to town on market day , yesterday , to announce plans for the May 25 to May 30 broadcast and his intention to do some shopping . |
| 30 | Back in Milan , Wolfgang set to work on his new opera Mitridate , rè di Ponto ( Mitridate , King of Pontus ) , based on a play by Racine . |