Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perfectly simple , relatively speaking , to store on magnetic tape within a computer a full catalogue entry , including a classification symbol or symbols , and to label each segment of the information in such a way that the computer can be programmed to find it on demand . |
| 2 | You do not know me and so you can not be expected to take anything on trust . |
| 3 | THE daughter of the Nobel prize-winning nuclear physicist Owen Chamberlain , who had threatened to set herself on fire and detonate explosives in front of the UN headquarters in New York , surrendered to police yesterday after a tense confrontation . |
| 4 | On deck , Martha and Nenna had been joined by Maurice , who had decided to consider himself on holiday , and had not been to the pub for several nights . |
| 5 | My belief that I am in pain may be justified , perhaps , but I can hardly be said to base it on reasons , conclusive or otherwise . |
| 6 | But he 's got to do it on Access because there 's no money in the bank to write a cheque out and pay for the suit . |
| 7 | It seemed very hard that she should have had to uproot herself completely while her husband could not even be bothered to accompany her on holidays to her own country . |
| 8 | Be entrusted to get him on time . |
| 9 | She remembered that Carol had offered to entertain everyone on Christmas Eve rather than coming home , but she 'd resisted . |
| 10 | I had the great honour of being invited to meet them on behalf of our Society , as our Society is one of the big users of the Resources Centre at the Community College where our Journal is printed etc . |
| 11 | The Press was all geared to publish everything on Thursday , ’ Mr Prescott said tonight . |
| 12 | The trouble and expense he had gone to get himself on board looked increasingly ominous , I thought . |
| 13 | I was tempted to make some sardonic inquiry about how Mala could sound like she was defending Gharr , when he had so obviously been the one how had tried to kill me on Vadinamia . |
| 14 | These were the veins in your lids , she knew that , though now , in the darkness of her pain , she remembered that Adesangé , lord of the volcano , the power that leapt in the crater and had leapt to set her on fire , moved along fissures in the earth that forked like those veins in her eyes . |
| 15 | He had , he said , originally planned to keep improvements apart , but had now been forced to combine them on account of a ‘ piratical ’ edition , published in Dublin , producing everything under one cover , and therefore he had been obliged to do the same . |
| 16 | If the Justice of the Forest discovered that a wood was without a woodward , or that a woodward had not taken the oath or had not appeared at the Forest Eyre to be sworn , or neglected his duty , or committed trespasses in the forest , the wood in question was seized for the king , but the owner was usually allowed to recover it on payment of a fine . |
| 17 | His response : ‘ You may not believe this but I 'm not allowed to tell you on council notepaper . ’ |
| 18 | I mean , she 'll go on a bus but no further , and we tried everything to get her to come to America — she would have loved to see me on Broadway , and she wanted to get there . |
| 19 | After nearly a month of political stalemate and gathering crisis opposition leader Zhelyu Zhelev was elected to replace him on Aug. 1 . |
| 20 | Peter had begun to study it on Sunday , chiefly to discover what he had had to say about Abbotsfield . |
| 21 | ‘ You certainly have mastered your anatomy , ’ she told him admiringly as he slid his hands across the small of her back to find that ecstatic erogenous zone that never failed to set her on fire . |
| 22 | The extent of the undertaking was not generally known nor the supreme effort required to complete it on time . |
| 23 | The fear got worse and when it reached the stage where five brandies were required to get me on stage , I had to stop and take stock of myself I had no desire to inflict an alcoholic parent on MY children . |