Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told to enjoy my life on the dole and they slammed the phone down . ’ |
| 2 | The weather was unexpectedly hot , and had brought out a sudden rash of men leering from shop doorways and cars for a glimpse of female flesh , while Vonetta struggled to find my flat on the sprawling council estate where I live . |
| 3 | However , as the bitter winter weather approaches , I should like to concentrate my speech on the basic problem of enabling people to find shelter so that hon. Members do not again have to face the awful reality of stepping around people huddled under snow-covered tarpaulins , lying in shop doorways in the streets of our city . |
| 4 | The only problems encountered were that I tended to catch my chin on the high foam on the front and shoulder elastic was slightly against skin . |
| 5 | In September 1915 , the UDC refused to accept their affiliation on the grounds that the UDC had less to gain from any activity the Fellowship might undertake on its behalf than it had to lose from being associated with the doctrine of non-resistance . |
| 6 | ‘ At that time , ’ recalls Vivien , who was the first British player to try her hand on the American Tour , ‘ the LPGA needed all the publicity and good will it could get . |
| 7 | Sideshows did a roaring trade with queues waiting to try their luck on the rifle range , hoop-la , hubbly bubbly or coconut shies . |
| 8 | As an American commentator put it , ‘ a duchess abdicates when her son comes to his title ; she is turned out of the mansion where she once presided … ’ especially through this single-minded concentration of resources through inheritance on a principal heir that the English aristocracy were able to tighten their grip on the land . |
| 9 | If one took analogies seriously and from such a definition … of ‘ so-called primitive capitalist accumulation ’ , then literally the whole of capitalism , right up to its death would end up in the ‘ pre-history ’ of capitalism : for capitalism obtains surplus profits from ‘ third persons ’ throughout its entire existence ; there is and will be no such stage in the life of capitalism when profits were not to come its way on the basis of exploitation of third persons . |
| 10 | The fact that a deceased 's widow would have given up work to start a family but for the deceased 's death is not a matter to be taken into account so as to increase her dependency on the deceased from the date that she would have given up work ( Malone v Rowan [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 402 ) . |
| 11 | UNITED Biscuits , the food conglomerate , yesterday moved to tighten its grip on the UK snacks market with the £24 million takeover of Derwent Valley Food Group , makers of Phileas Fogg snacks . |
| 12 | Plastic card investment : Barclays Bank looks set to tighten its stranglehold on the processing of plastic card transactions and will invest more than £22.5m in the service . |
| 13 | The hunger strike was interpreted in some quarters as an attempt by the RAF prisoners to increase their influence on the command structure outside prison . |
| 14 | In recent years , the Conservative government in Britain has increasingly been able to impose its agenda on the nationalized industries , including the railways . |
| 15 | Given the miserable legislative record of the Duma and its manifest inability to impose its will on the government , the policy of clinging to the Duma in the hope that popular respect for the Russian parliament would grow proved vain . |
| 16 | They attempt to impose their will on the firm(s) involved , that influence extending perhaps to deciding on which may be involved . |
| 17 | who are inclined to impose their choice on the bride and groom in a lot of cases ? |
| 18 | She finds manufacturers evasive on the matter of setting standards : ‘ Everyone says , ‘ We 've got the standard ’ … they 're hoping to impose their design on the world . |
| 19 | Drawn just past the dolomite length , the Cleveland Angling Centre-sponsored star decided to try his luck on the waggler and with little wind to hinder presentation , the gamble paid off . |
| 20 | First of all I should point out that the Nor the County Council er figure of none thousand seven hundred is actually a figure for local needs plus one hundred percent migration , and if you follow Mr Thomas 's figures that leaves a residual requirement of nine hundred and forty seven dwellings without any windfalls over the next thirteen years , which is quite inconceivable , so in order to establish his point on the need for the new settlement on tha on on his figures , the Bar Mr Grigson of Barton Willmore has to up the figure for Greater York to twelve thousand seven hundred , as set out in his erm paper . |
| 21 | An army of Slaanesh worshippers would be available to impose his will on the leaderless Elves . |
| 22 | Kewenig has chosen to use his role in Berlin to impose his vision on the higher education — for example , he is refusing to allow the polytechnics to duplicate the work of the universities and lengthen their three year courses to compare with the universities . |
| 23 | The first part of the poem deals with Sir Walter 's attempts to impose his mastery on the natural environment . |
| 24 | Hardly had Muawad been elected than they detected signs that the Syrians were less than eager to give him the support he needed to impose his authority on the whole country . |
| 25 | Hardly had Muawad been elected than they detected signs that the Syrians were less than eager to give him the support he needed to impose his authority on the whole country . |
| 26 | Jubert also recalls the man in his regiment who , returning from the front , was overjoyed to find his house on the outskirts of Verdun still intact ; but , on discovering that all its contents had been methodically plundered , he simply burst into laughter . |
| 27 | The telephone was ringing as McLeish walked into his own flat , and he picked it up to find his Commander on the other end of the line . |
| 28 | I badly wanted to know his opinion on the Anwar business , but obviously he was n't in the mood for it now . |
| 29 | The necessity to provide enough material to fill 20 or so pages of Tinsley 's Magazine each month exerted its own pressure , forcing him to fall back on recent autobiographical and architectural experiences , but appropriately when the novel appeared in book-form in May 1873 to favourable reviews it was the first to bear his name on the title-page . |
| 30 | I happen to pass his house on the way to my own . |