Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] on " in BNC.

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1 In what other job might you call in and use a hot air balloon to appear over a city on a publicity stunt and that same afternoon sit in on a seminar which you have arranged as a scientific event ?
2 I said to Bet I said they ought to write out a cheque on the end .
3 ‘ Our Quality Charter states that NICMA members are expected to work out a policy on discipline which does not include smacking children , ’ she said .
4 The next night he remembered to pick up a video on the way back from work .
5 Just to pick up a point on er Miss 's latest request for information .
6 Should you be successful , you will be able to pick up a bounty on each of them . ’
7 Yes , we 're going to open up a resort on Mars .
8 Under this Resolution , it was agreed to set up a Committee on Cultural Affairs , and that the Commission should implement actions decided on by the Council that were to be implemented at Community level .
9 Everyone wished to be buried there , or at least to set up a cenotaph on hallowed ground .
10 PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out .
11 Independently , or in conjunction with BAIE or IPR or others , I hope to set up a seminar on Ethics in Communications , and wonder whether the PCC could be persuaded to be represented ?
12 I am trying to set up a seminar on Ethics in Communications ( which may also touch on more general issues of ethics and management ) — do you have any relevant texts of which you might send me a complimentary copy and to which reference could be made in the publicity for what should prove a stimulating event !
13 Figure 9 shows how to set up a tripod on a slope .
14 This would enable them to set up a business on a more settled and permanent trading basis .
15 The Law Societies ' of England and Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have funded a team of researchers led by lecturer Dr Julian Lonbay , to draw up a report on the professional qualifications and training of lawyers , in order to help them determine how to implement the EEC Directive on a general system for the recognition of higher education diplomas awarded on completion of professional education and training of at least three years duration , which comes into force on 4 January 1991 .
16 For his part , Corbett could only fret and decided to draw up a memorandum on what he had learnt so far :
17 To give out a lecture on fighting and .
18 Men 's toiletries producers Lynx have commissioned National Opinion Polls to carry out a survey on men 's attitudes to pressures of living and work .
19 One of the machine tenders used a piece of wood to knock down a catch on a door in the base of the copper sheathing around the bottom of the barrel .
20 This is to enable us to continue to build up a database on the application of our provision in response to special needs .
21 The age of the children , their number , the ability of the wife to earn a second income at home , whilst the elder children helped run the boat , the responsibility for dependent relatives , the possibility of sharing a house : such factors governed the decision to keep up a home on the land .
22 For the last , steepest section we all had to climb up a couloir on foot .
23 Thus if the plan is to send out a release on a new range of products the most useful sections can be immediately picked out of the list .
24 In a sense it is almost impossible to separate out a section on documents which can be called ‘ historical ’ since all documents are by nature historical .
25 The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him .
26 The crisis has also forced Chancellor Norman Lamont to cut short his holiday as the Bank of England tries to stave off a run on the Pound .
27 Mother-of-three Julekha , who runs a gro-cery shop in Oswaldtwis-tle , Lancs , said : ‘ We wanted to pay off a mortgage on my house in Leicester with an interest-free loan of £39,000 .
28 Keegan raced away immediately after the game — reportedly to check out a striker on the continent .
29 He began to beat out a rhythm on them , using a pair of long bones — perhaps the thighs of an ox , Cleo thought — as drumsticks .
30 Mr Izetbegovic delivered the appeal for intervention as Muslim defenders of the town of Visegrad , 75 miles south of Zvornik , threatened to blow up a dam on the Drina river and flood a large lake if they sighted Serbian territorial defence members , Tanjug news agency reported .
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