Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [noun prp] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as papal legate during the years when Anselm was abbot of Bec , he had shown endless energy storming through France on visitations , and sending offenders scurrying to Rome . |
| 2 | So also Daniel , walking with Stephanie on Filey beach , had suddenly , out of some metaphorical experience as bodily as breathing , known why love was called " sweet " and , as his blood banged , why a beloved was a " sweet heart " . |
| 3 | Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia visited China on June 18-20 , signing accords on economic and technical co-operation , and returning via Thailand on June 21 . |
| 4 | Mr Huismans , who attended the Tencel plant opening in Mobile on December 2 , said : ‘ The potential for a real breakthrough is there . |
| 5 | The influential rock band , whose earliest fans included pop artist Andy Warhol , are appearing in Glasgow on June 1 and 2 , London 's The Forum on June 5 and Wembley Arena the following night . |
| 6 | His lecture tour will continue in five cities , ending in Birmingham on Sunday . |
| 7 | About six runners from the Peterlee Road Racers covered the stretch between Newcastle and Darlington in the 550-mile relay race ending in London on March 2 , the day before Shrove Tuesday . |
| 8 | Returning from Paris on Nov. 5 after talks with President François Mitterrand , President Hassan Gouled Aptidon proposed peace talks with the FRUD on Nov. 20 , but these were then cancelled , the government demanding that the Front release prisoners first . |
| 9 | Nevin , a £300,000 club record signing from Everton on Thursday , goes straight in for his debut at Sunderland today . |
| 10 | Dynamite on a long fuse Myles Palmer talks to singer , Brenda Lee , returning to Scotland on tour , and celebrating 33 years in the music business ‘ I know what entertainers have gone through to get to that point on the stage , to put the performance on for you . |
| 11 | Frederique is staying in Wallasey with the family of 17-year-old Lindsay Fardoe before returning to France on Friday . |
| 12 | Throughout his tour , which also took in visits to Denmark and Ireland before returning to London on April 26 for further talks with business leaders en route for Johannesburg , de Klerk stressed that foreign investment was needed to underpin his political reforms . |
| 13 | Mrs Jamieson will be travelling from Edinburgh to Leeds , departing from Edinburgh on Wednesday 8 September 1993 at 1.00 pm and returning to Edinburgh on Thursday 9 September 1993 , departing from Leeds at 6.49 pm . |
| 14 | The royal couple moved on on Oct. 3 to Indonesia , before returning to Japan on Oct. 6 . |
| 15 | Nabiyev completed a two-day visit to Iran on June 30 and went on to Pakistan , returning to Tajikistan on July 4 . |
| 16 | Mark , I AM DEFFINATELY NOT DRIVING TO LEEDS ON SATURDAY ! ! ! |
| 17 | My contribution was on the lines that having seen so many birds passing through Shetland on migration , I would love to follow them to their breeding-grounds in northern Scandinavia . |
| 18 | I did n't recognise much of it because birds passing through Shetland on migration are not on territory and therefore have little inclination to advertise their presence by singing . |
| 19 | One , living in Newcastle on Tyne 's Salvation Army Men 's palace , told me that homeless men lost basic citizen 's rights because " laws apply to them but never for them " . |
| 20 | Meeting in Ica on Tuesday , Presidents Alan Garcia of Peru , Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia and Virgilio Barco of Colombia said there was an increased global sense of ‘ co-responsibility ’ for the drugs trade . |
| 21 | EC Foreign Ministers meeting in Utrecht on Oct. 6 threatened to impose trade sanctions against republics impeding the peace process if a ceasefire were not imposed by midnight on Oct. 7 . |
| 22 | The World Bank and International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , meeting in Washington on April 26-28 , approved massive financial backing for the former Soviet republics on the condition that they took rigorous action to privatize and stabilize their economies . |
| 23 | US President George Bush and EC Commission President Jacques Delors both expressed hope and commitment , but reported no concrete progress , after meeting in Washington on April 22 . |
| 24 | The Defence Minister , Shaikh Ali Sabah as Salim as Sabah , and United States Defence Secretary Dick Cheney , meeting in Washington on Sept. 19 , signed a 10-year defence agreement providing for an unspecified stockpile of US military equipment in Kuwait , the use of Kuwaiti ports by US troops , and joint training exercises . |
| 25 | An Arab League meeting in Cairo on March 22 appeared to have produced an acceptable compromise proposal : al-Megrahi and Fhimah would be handed over first to the Arab League , which would then through UN channels deliver them to either the UK or the US judicial authorities ; the League then sent a delegation to Tripoli to negotiate the terms of the handover . |
| 26 | At an emergency Arab League meeting in Cairo on March 22 [ see p. 38839 ] a seven-member committee had been formed to investigate possible solutions to the dispute . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , representatives from the 17-party Joint Action Committee of the Iraqi Opposition ( JACIO ) [ see p. 37987 ] , meeting in Paris on May 6 , called for the establishment of democratic government and the removal of Saddam Hussein . |
| 28 | A World Bank-supported consultative group , meeting in Paris on Feb. 18-19 , agreed to provide resources of almost US$1,000 million for 1992 . |
| 29 | At a World Bank-sponsored meeting in Paris on Oct. 27 leading developed countries and multilateral agencies approved a further $2,200 million in aid over the three years 1990-92 . |
| 30 | Bangladeshi and Indian officials meeting in Sylhet on Aug. 27-29 agreed to adopt stringent measures to prevent cross-border crime . |