Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried again to call Richie on the radio link . |
| 2 | While Miller seemed chiefly to glean knowledge on the cultivation of flowers and vegetables from Holland , he turned to Italy for information on fruit culture and here again he had many correspondents . |
| 3 | Subsequently , Thames Television 's current affairs programme , This Week , broadcast a feature , called ‘ Death on the Rock ’ ( ITV , 28 April 1988 ) , in which witnesses came forward to cast doubt on the official version of events . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 6 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 7 | I 'd never eaten breakfast on weekdays before , and I used to be starving by lunch-time and pig out . |
| 8 | He could be right too , but I 'd never laid eyes on her . |
| 9 | Funny thing , I felt close to Connie , yet I 'd never laid eyes on her . |
| 10 | Now , how do you suppose God planned always to have plants on the earth ? |
| 11 | … Now how do you suppose God planned always to have animals on the earth ? |
| 12 | The people were the best of all that God had made , so God planned always to have people on the earth . |
| 13 | The introduction of cash crops and an increasing population acted together to increase pressure on the land significantly , in specific cases even to critical levels , such as in Ruanda and in the ‘ reserves ’ of Kenya and Zimbabwe . |
| 14 | Clients who withheld money they owed often achieved satisfaction on their particular bone of contention . |
| 15 | That was the war : not when the band played and a bloody politician stepped forward to put flowers on the ground . |
| 16 | On Feb. 11 the Soviet government offered also to begin negotiations on the withdrawal of the 40,000 Soviet troops stationed in Poland . |
| 17 | On the same day the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet voted overwhelmingly to declare invalid on Lithuanian territory the USSR Law on Supervision of the Constitution , passed by the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies in December 1989 [ see p. 37127 ] . |
| 18 | In the 1930s , they earned enough to make payments on their debentures and , usually , on their preference shares , though ordinary shareholders got very little . |
| 19 | If ACET did somehow reclaim tax on the covenant then you would be liable to pay income tax to the Inland Revenue on the amount of your covenant payment . |
| 20 | If ACET did somehow reclaim tax on the payment then you would be liable to pay income tax to the Inland Revenue on the amount of your Gift Aid payment . |
| 21 | Following a visit to Paris on March 22 German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and his French counterpart Roland Dumas appeared also to reach agreement on the timing of the different phases of EMU . |
| 22 | ‘ Their own evidence conclusively demonstrated that their main object was to make sure that the plaintiffs , whom they described as their ‘ core ’ customers , did indeed take delivery on July 25 , in order to encourage their other reluctant customers to follow suit . ‘ |
| 23 | But , despite this assumption , they sat at the desk so closely that their bodies were almost touching , and there were times when his arm encircled her shoulders while he leaned forward to check additions on the electronic calculator . |
| 24 | Mr. Booker said that the company had since fitted blocks on top of all their surface water drains and that a four foot wall has been built around the washing area . |
| 25 | He had a second reason for doing this , which was that he hoped thereby to put pressure on France and Germany to hand over to Spain part of French Morocco . |
| 26 | Strong trade unions , especially in the public sector , had successfully resisted attacks on the Welfare State in the past , and so needed to be defeated if the Tories ’ solution to what they saw as the major problem — inflation — were to be successful . |
| 27 | In early February 1991 Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland had all begun negotiations on association agreements with the EC , which was offering a 10-year transition period to mutual free trade in two stages with asymmetrically large EC tariff cuts over the first five years in all sectors except agriculture , steel and textiles — the very areas where the three countries most desired access . |
| 28 | We had to hire a dress , and I was the only one who was pale ; they had all got tans on a sunbed . |
| 29 | General Hawley had only reached Edinburgh on 6 January , and having built up his strength , wrote optimistically of ‘ driving the rascally scum out of Stirling ’ . |
| 30 | But their ideas had only limited influence on the way games were played and understood by the mass of manual workers . |