Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently Ziegfeld spied on rehearsals by watching through a peephole in the wall . |
| 2 | Keep left on path along wall on reaching River Wharfe. 9 Follow riverside path . |
| 3 | No , it 's it 's erm it 's somebody who , all they do is write your answers for you but dictated I m if you 've ever been an em especially I mean I used to be I usually end up doing the amanuensing for courses that I 've taught on students on my paper . |
| 4 | Er We 've worshipped on holiday at nine thirty . |
| 5 | Yeah but I do n't , see savings they 've got on suits at the moment , special offers on them cos they 're not shifting them . |
| 6 | Chair , it was one officer whom we 've got on staff at the moment Karen Wheeler who 's away nursing her new baby , and it 's to authorize that officer to carry out certain roles under the health and safety |
| 7 | I just know that I would n't sacrifice the experiences I 've had on drugs for anything . ’ |
| 8 | Gypsies who 've camped on land in Hereford for generations years with the farmer 's permission . |
| 9 | I 've gone on duty with clothes drenched — you 'd have night uniform on , and a cape . |
| 10 | We 've danced on stage with Pete and Michaela and we got to meet Aswad . ’ |
| 11 | but that 's no problem for me , it used to be a problem but it is n't now because I 've worked on building up my confidence in other things so I 'm good at quite a lot of things and I always keep re-enforcing that that I 'm good at doing these things . |
| 12 | We 've worked on building up handwriting . |
| 13 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 14 | When you 've lived on subsistence for two years what do you do when your shoes wear out , when you get a £100 fuel bill , when the washing machine breaks down , when a pair of children 's shoes cost you more than you 'd spend on your own ? |
| 15 | State-owned French banks , such as Crédit Lyonnais , have relied on share-swaps with other state companies . |
| 16 | For example where he used production of ammonia , we have relied on production of CO 2 as the measurement of glutamine metabolism . |
| 17 | Over the past 165 years , thousands of householders in some 40 Ulster towns and villages have depended on gas for their lighting , heating , and cooking . |
| 18 | So we 're trying to encourage the equipment suppliers now to look again at what they have won on business for Eurofighter and perhaps allocate the work between themselves a lot more efficiently so that instead of each one of the four members building a given percentage of the five items , they say right we 'll take this one , all of it and we 'll build all of it , you take that one , all of it and build that one and so on an and in that way we might be able to er er improve considerably on the costs of production . |
| 19 | Few of the youngsters will have been to a big match ; what they are emulating is what they have seen on television in shop windows and heard on their transistors . |
| 20 | We started with committee structure those attempts have foundered on intransigence over the whole nature of a review process . |
| 21 | Throughout the ages , artists have turned on people to knowledge . |
| 22 | Throughout the ages , artists have turned on people to knowledge . |
| 23 | I congratulate my right hon. and hon. Friends on the positive case that they have made on behalf of the Labour party , especially for common environmental policies and for minimum social standards as proposed by the social charter , which has been agreed by 11 other countries . |
| 24 | Others have embarked on careers in teaching ( at all levels ) , and a good few now work in journalism and the mass media . |
| 25 | The Soviet maritime declaration of health is an equally laudable document which asks the yacht 's skipper to state any cases which have occurred on board of plague , cholera , yellow fever , small-pox , typhus or relapsing fever . |
| 26 | On Saturday morning we will have a look at all the changes that have occurred on campus in recent years . |
| 27 | Throughout this book , however , we have drawn on examples from research in other sign languages and found parallel or identical structures . |
| 28 | In Newcastle , 145 companies have acted on concerns over education by forming a compact with local schools . |
| 29 | As the problem which prompted the question has been resolved by the Inland Revenue , will my hon. Friend pass on to its staff the thanks of many Members of Parliament for dealing with issues that we have raised on behalf of our constituents and say that we hope that the problems will continue to decline as tax rates come down rather than go up ? |
| 30 | In this chapter so far we have focused on specificities in your argument — the presuppositions in your sentences , the specific things you can say about particular texts , the setting of something in its context , and so on . |