Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pers pn] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it had come to her on the previous day , and came again now , the whiff , or stroke , of solitude , as her final hope for Patrick 's life was extinguished . |
| 2 | The idea of starting an airline had come to him on the demise of Laker Airways in February 1982 . |
| 3 | Unless the tenant here was a statutorily protected tenant , as the premises were not let to her on an excluded tenancy she is entitled to the benefit of that protection . |
| 4 | True , the word star could be loosely applied to him on the basis that he had ‘ starred ’ in more than a dozen films . |
| 5 | If the provisions of s213 can be satisfied , management would incur no income tax charge or capital gains tax charge ; Target should have no liability to capital gains tax under s178 or 179 , even though it would be leaving a capital gains tax group as a result of the de-merger and may have had assets transferred to it on a no gain/no loss basis within the preceding six years . |
| 6 | Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends . |
| 7 | Erm , on page thirty you talk about the erm Employer 's Federation in the er minimum terms and conditions , well I 'm only hoping that my own firm Securicor do n't have any er input into that , because er as you know they unilaterally reduced all the terms and conditions Securicor guarding and cleaning recently erm I 'd like to know when we intend meeting with Securicor Cleaner I do know you 've written to them on a number of occasions and their refusal to meet with us . |
| 8 | The press were delighted to have the scandal fed to them on a silver salver . |
| 9 | I would have said to you on the phone we do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 10 | I 'm sure I 've I said to you on the phone I think . |
| 11 | You can appreciate by the remarks my agent made to me on the telephone ( words which I swear I have not amended or distorted in any way at all ) just how big and unpleasant a problem I have sitting like a gibbering troll on my innocent shoulders . |
| 12 | Coy then took the DDI through the report Adam had made to him on the phone . |
| 13 | Sir Anthony concludes : ‘ A regulatory agency — which is what the Department were , at the time , in relation to the protection of investors — ought , to my mind , by definition adopt a rigorous and enquiring approach as regards material coming into its possession concerning an undertaking about which suspicions have been aroused , and also as regards representations made to it on the part of the undertaking in question . |
| 14 | If land is given to an infant by will or conveyed to him on an intestacy the legal estate vests in the representatives of the deceased who hold it in trust for the infant . |
| 15 | This clause relies upon the ticket cases discussed above , ( see particularly Parker v South Eastern Railway , ante ) If such clauses are to stand it is vital that attention be drawn to them on the face of the order , and wording for this purpose is also provided at the commencement of Precedent 2 . |
| 16 | She might be growing to detest the man more with every passing second , but she doubted there was a woman alive who could deny his sheer male beauty , or fail to be drawn to it on the most basic level . |
| 17 | He 's so bloated and , I mean I have n't seen him , I said I 've , I 've talked to him on the phone . |
| 18 | He no longer maintained the stance he had advanced to me on the telephone . |
| 19 | She asserted that she had been done out of her rights to the ownership of Mrs Ferrar 's London house , which had been promised to her on the old lady 's death . |
| 20 | Or maybe Veronica had got to him on the subject . |
| 21 | In at least one case , an artist has requested the option to buy back his own work , only for his letter to go unanswered ; Saatchi is known to have split up one series of paintings which were sold to him on the strength of verbal assurances that they would stay together . |
| 22 | It was sold to us on a false premise . |
| 23 | This was sold to us , please , this was sold to us on the basis that it was going to bring in the baddies and sort out the baddies , and we 'd all live happily ever after . |
| 24 | There 's other information which will be shown to you on the on the er training school . |
| 25 | Yes , that sounded plausible : he would n't take it just because it was offered to him on a plate . |
| 26 | It was a win handed to him on a plate when chief rival Alain Prost was forced out of the race by the stewards and young charger Michael Schumacher by a blazing fire on his Camel Benetton Ford car . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ The way they talk , anyone would think the £50 billion debt had been handed to them on a plate . |
| 28 | The medal was handed to her on a velvet cushion and she bent down and hung it on a little hook with which we had each been provided on arrival . |
| 29 | Sometimes being born with every apparent advantage in life spawns the deepest need to create something just by oneself , to say : ‘ This was n't handed to me on a plate , but I did it just the same ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Nothing will be handed to you on a plate . ’ |