Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figure 4.3 ( opposite ) ( a ) Contour map produced using dot-graphics functions on a Mannesman-Tally MT86 dot-matrix printer . |
| 2 | { ARI070A OPERATOR NOTIFIED TO MOUNT NEXT VOLUME ON TAPE UNIT 181 . } |
| 3 | } ARI070A OPERATOR NOTIFIED TO MOUNT NEXT VOLUME ON TAPE UNIT 181 . { |
| 4 | On the border issue , both sides agreed to continue intensive discussions on the remaining disputed sectors . |
| 5 | However , Nielsen and Videbech ( 1973 ) failed to find any effect on the suicide rate of the introduction of a community service to an island population . |
| 6 | The point was to create first-time theatre-goers , so we tried to target poorer areas on the whole . ’ |
| 7 | A previous California resources secretary proposed building bigger dams on California 's rivers as a solution to the water crisis . |
| 8 | Coleman tried to obtain veterinary representation on the examining committee , but all efforts failed until after his death . |
| 9 | But the operation , involved keeping thirty officers on standby , , including undercover officers and traffic patrols , was expensive … thirty thousand has been spent in overtime alone … so the operation was scaled down … again the displays started … again the Police moved in … |
| 10 | Sitting in a heavily carved chair to the right of it , George Briant took a sardonic pleasure in the manifest discomfort of the men and women in front of him who moved uneasily in their damp coats and tried to find dry patches on their laps on which to rest their notebooks . |
| 11 | xv ) Kimon tried to reverse these changes on his return from Ithome . |
| 12 | Indeed , the rise of ‘ community politics ’ in the late 1960s helped to focus academic interest on the North American ‘ community power ’ studies , but the new research received its most important theoretical support through the emergence of urban managerialism . |
| 13 | These were the sort of respondents who nicknamed the fieldworker ‘ Tell her Nothin ’ and ‘ Nosebag ’ , and tried to assert informal checks on colleagues who were conversing with her by reminding them of the notepad and that she ‘ writes everything down ’ . |
| 14 | I tried to put some money on the ‘ Stiffs ’ finishing bottom with the bookies . |
| 15 | She tried to superimpose this place on Amelia Dorf 's house , but could not make the images jibe . |
| 16 | He helped to assemble geological specimens on microscope slides , and in addition attended classes in chemistry and other subjects at the Institution . |
| 17 | She handed him his dressing gown and then knelt to add some coal on the fire . |
| 18 | In his place , the Shah had very little idea of what was happening , Shorn of more and more of his powers but Mossadeq , who tended to ignore him , the Shah retreated into alternating bouts of gloom and high spirits which involved playing practical jokes on guests . |
| 19 | There were Greek mercenaries in the Egyptian army of Necho son of Psammetzchus who killed Josiah — allegedly at Megiddo — in 608 B.C. There were thirty thousand Greeks , according to Herodotus , in the army of Necho 's grandson Apries who tried to relieve Babylonian pressure on Palestine in 588 ( Jerem. 37.5 ) and probably precipitated the final onslaught of Nebuchadnezzar on Jerusalem in 586 B.C. It has even been suggested that a king of Judah had Greek mercenaries . |
| 20 | The day after we all met you she assured me she 'd say nothing damaging and said she 'd convinced Merlyn who 'd arranged another meeting on the boat . |
| 21 | Yeah so anyway and I said that 's not very nice so we were talking this morning about her and I had to tell Ann did n't I that she drove to work three days on a trot in her bleeding lights two . |
| 22 | With the Hughes — Ryan Act of 1974 , Congress endeavoured to impose some discipline on the CIA by requiring the agency to obtain presidential approval before embarking on covert operations and obliging it to notify eight different Congressional committees either before , or soon after , such operations commenced . |
| 23 | If we , if we put the profit carried forward er that we 'd earned this year on erm the Upminster Signal thing , |
| 24 | ‘ But whenever we left him in his cot and then went back to him , we 'd notice that he 'd made terrible scratches on his face with his fingernails and he would rip the backs of his legs with his toes . |
| 25 | I guess he 'd seen American officers on TV the whole time during the Viet Nam war . |
| 26 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 27 | He 'd done good work on the drama pilot , and it was galling to hear this woman refer to it so dismissively . |
| 28 | ‘ He gave me a cheque once , after we 'd done some work on the pool at ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ When we got that first call from the company , we thought they were going to sue us because we 'd used some samples on a record without clearing them , ’ laughs Geoff . |
| 30 | He wished he 'd got some sleep on the bed when the humans were studying him ; it had looked quite comfortable . |