Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had travelled widely in America on behalf of peaceful arbitration of international disputes and in 1893 had persuaded the Commons to resolve in favour of an Anglo-American Treaty of Arbitration . |
| 2 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
| 3 | The arrangements for the expatriate and his family 's passage to and from the UK and for periods of leave during the assignment should be given together with information on the location of airports/ports . |
| 4 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 5 | Tickets could be bought in banks and shops , and booked long in advance on a computer , just like aircraft tickets . |
| 6 | And it should be issued separately , not mixed in with tips on where to go and what to buy . |
| 7 | Like subjects were grouped together ; thus Dewey 's scheme grouped together material on the electron and located it with material on other sub-atomic particles , which was grouped together with material on molecular and atomic physics in general , which was grouped together with other aspects of physics ; physics itself was in the science section of the scheme , together with other sciences . |
| 8 | It says that the discharges from the plant , which is run by British Nuclear Fuels ( BNFL ) , are carried upstream to Preston on the incoming tide and deposited in mudflats used by children to play . |
| 9 | The Sergeant informed me that No. 46 Royal Marine Commando had come ashore in Normandy on D-Day + 1 and had gone into action almost straight away at a spot further along the coast from here , against a crack German S.S. Unit ( Hitler Youth ) . |
| 10 | There was nothing unusual about MPs getting carried away during debates on crime and violence , however , or for the Speaker to find it necessary to call for ‘ Order ! ’ against ‘ shouts of sadistic enthusiasm ’ when whipping was on the agenda . |
| 11 | Captain Schott 's party was picked up by Timpson on the night of 13 July , but Warr 's failed to arrive . |
| 12 | Mouse had been curled up with Wolf on one of the mattresses , sleepily combing the tangled hair of Wolf 's great mane with his fingers , when the sandy-haired woman slammed through the door and kicked it shut behind her . |
| 13 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 14 | No he 's just come back from Tunisia on holiday so he 'll need it . |
| 15 | A convicted robber has come out of prison on parole … and walked straight into a job as a professional actor . |
| 16 | While we were in Poona we bought darling Sally because Rachel had become rather afraid of dogs , and while we were there who should turn up one day but dear old Madriya — he had come out of Burma on foot with his wife and daughter — he carried my old sewing machine for some time ! |
| 17 | In the cold-war days , most of its operations were pretty straightforward and problems could be sorted out by officers on the ground . |
| 18 | The conference over , Henry was carried back to Chinon on a litter and there , on 6 July 1189 , he died . |
| 19 | But one grey-haired uplander disappeared into a hole below a boulder and was pulled out by the hair and carried back towards Keltney on a stretcher of cut branches . |
| 20 | On completion of the conservation programme the Firefly was officially rolled out at Duxford on June 2 , in company with the IWM 's Fairey Gannet XG797 and Sea Hawk WM969 , both of which had been subjected to a similar conservation programme . |
| 21 | For example a great deal of work is being carried out at present on the re-structuring of our training courses with a view to safe guarding the status of our Examination Award and gaining future exemption from lengthy in-service training for newly-qualified teachers . |
| 22 | Experiments are being carried out at Cambridge on a wheat-rye hybrid known as Triticale , which , it is hoped will have the growing and ripening qualities of rye and the baking qualities of wheat . |
| 23 | Paint and sign work carried out to toilets on the recreation grounds . |
| 24 | The findings of a pilot study carried out by NATTA on attitudes to the Severn Barrage develop this last point further . |
| 25 | In most instances , however , it is more practicable to base assessments on tests carried out in parallel on carefully selected control products . |
| 26 | Seaview , a sprawling white villa that would have looked equally at home on some Greek island , was set high on a bluff overlooking the sea , poised like some magical fairy-tale castle , its silhouette sharp against the darkening autumn sky , at its feet the rocky shore that tumbled to the sea . |
| 27 | Her evidence about being telephoned late at night on 11 January 1987 ( when her husband answered and passed the receiver to her ) was that the caller was female and that the call lasted three to five minutes . |
| 28 | Later when there were large sailing ships they used the deep water channel as far as Kingston-upon-Hull but they docked in the River Hull to unload their cargoes and the goods were carried inland by barges on the rivers to Selby , York , Beverley and Gainsborough . |
| 29 | Called Double Drain , the board is designed primarily for use on vertical walls and structures in areas where there is a high water content in the ground . |
| 30 | The answer to the first of those three points is that the Home Secretary will shortly be publishing his promised and much looked forward to paper on criminal prevention . |