Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading the article in this issue on Remembrance led me to reflect on the statement in our Royal Charter which says that one of the objects of the Association is to : |
| 2 | The band formed a friendship with NME journalist Neil Taylor , and he asked them to appear on a label he was starting called City Slang . |
| 3 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 4 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 5 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 6 | I waited there for what seemed ages , and then they put me in a room on my own and told me to put on a paper gown . |
| 7 | ‘ A few minutes later two guys came running in with masks on they were both shouting and swearing and told me to lie on the ground . |
| 8 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 9 | Th they told me to default on the mortgage that I 'm paying for the property that my wife lives in , because the assessment does n't take into account that I |
| 10 | And there , the tailor , he 'd been trained in the war , and he he only had one la leg , and he seemed very nice , but er he told me to start on the Monday and then I got a letter . |
| 11 | On the third evening of the first week he sent one of his assistants into the dining hall and told him to get on the mike and chat to the campers/diners . |
| 12 | Modi told her to put on a tightly fitted black silk dress . |
| 13 | he encouraged me to embark on a book , intended to be published in a new series he was editing with Longman Group Ltd. ( then Longmans Green ) . |
| 14 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 15 | Now she had developed a self-assurance and experience which allowed her to perform on the public stage . |
| 16 | She was able to roam further afield now , for Kit Everard felt he could gamble on her honour ( he hoped she was becoming attached to him too ) , and allowed her to walk on the beach by herself , and swim out to sea , even though he realised it meant she could slip out of the compound , for the sections of the stockade that he had left till last would enclose the shore . |
| 17 | This allowed him to go on the offensive , including on issues that Dr Cunningham devoutly wished would evaporate , like that cause célèbre . |
| 18 | He handed me a toffee , climbed into his car , beckoned me to sit on the other front seat for a few minutes , and removed the celluloid sidescreen to give us more fresh air . |
| 19 | You remember Peter when he was , er , totally different context , but the lesson is the same , when he was when Jesus called him to walk on the water and he starts walking , and then , he looks around and for what e , for whatever reason he starts sinking , the moment he calls out help Jesus reaches out and lifts him back him rescues him . |
| 20 | This led him to focus on the top social stratum as the primary location of anomie , for it was power and not poverty that facilitated too easily the personal achievement of socially inculcated cultural ambitions . |
| 21 | Akehurst 's passion for the subject of international law led him to embark on the writing of what became a standard student textbook , A Modern Introduction to International Law . |
| 22 | Cricket chairman Bob Gale asked him to put on a shirt bearing the sponsors name while photographs were being taken and Ramprakash asked whether that was a direct order . |
| 23 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 24 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 25 | Before he left , the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline asked him to report on the treatment of convicts in Van Dieman 's Land . |
| 26 | I then asked him to comment on the extent to which recommendations to the Senior Management Team contained in the report appeared to have been implemented . |
| 27 | Oswiu seems to have taken them by surprise and brought them to bay on the banks of the River Winwaed , now swollen by autumnal rains , and probably to be identified with the River Went , a tributary of the Don . |
| 28 | He had been too rushed and busy in Rome to enjoy his stay there , although it seems that the American writer , Frederic Prokosch , persuaded him to go on a pilgrimage one afternoon to find the legendary " Golden Bough " on the shores of Lake Nemi ; what they found was an old and dilapidated oak . |
| 29 | After many earnest conversations with Berthe Weill , who dealt in the works of modern artists such as Dufy , Vlaminck , Utrillo , Pascin and Picasso , he persuaded her to put on an exhibition for Modigliani . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's a legend which says that , once upon a time , a handsome and passionate Moorish king won the hand of a lovely princess from a northern country and brought her to live on the Algarve , ’ Vitor explained . |