Example sentences of "[to-vb] on the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was very interested in astronomy and he used to lecture on the stars and that sort of thing . |
| 2 | They may choose to jump on the bandwagon and agree with the decision that will be made anyway or they may choose to cosset disagreements . |
| 3 | ‘ No first night of the sixties was more volcanic than that of What the Butler Saw ’ , says Orton 's biographer , John Lahr ; while Stanley Baxter , who played Dr Prentice , has recalled the ‘ militant hate ’ of the audience , some of whom ‘ wanted to jump on the stage and kill us ’ ( Lahr , Prick Up Your Ears , 333 — 4 ) . |
| 4 | I hope your excellent paper will bring pressure to bear on the media and make April 23 a special day , and make the English realise they want to be ruled by their own countryman . |
| 5 | The strategy of deciding to concentrate on the Hotel and Leisure Markets has proved to be successful . |
| 6 | Jenkins had decided to concentrate on the bar and closed the rooms . |
| 7 | I have not followed international football for well over twenty years , preferring to concentrate on the bread and butter of non-League soccer , so I have no idea what Alf Ramsey thinks . |
| 8 | The three main headings , and I 'd like to concentrate on the de-regulation and the flexibility points rather than administration of this . |
| 9 | Wycliffe tried to concentrate on the Wheel and to ignore the veritable forest of giant rock pinnacles with which they were surrounded . |
| 10 | That back-up service would also allow our full-time officers to concentrate on the recruitment and servicing of our members , which must and must only be and remain our highest priority . |
| 11 | ‘ It leaves me free to concentrate on the show and anyway , I 'm not there just to play my favourite records . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the session she lights the candle , the children sit round it in a large circle and she asks them to watch the flame , to concentrate on the flame and nothing else . |
| 13 | One possible course of action is simply to leave the OED and completed Supplement as they are , a record of the vocabulary of English up to the late twentieth century but no more , and to concentrate on the production and revision of other smaller dictionaries . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's great news for us but now we have to concentrate on the football and try to achieve a good result , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Television is such a visual medium that we all tend to concentrate on the images and not the words . |
| 16 | UDCs were to concentrate on the reclamation and servicing of land and not , on the whole , on the development of that land . |
| 17 | Unable to concentrate on the whys and wherefores , she turned her attention to the booklet entitled Forthcoming Events . |
| 18 | Denise Wong , the artistic director of the company and director of the piece says , ‘ We wanted to look at mothers , but it is such a vast topic that we decided to concentrate on the mother and daughter relationship , and the concept of unconditional love . |
| 19 | I was asked to concentrate on the motion and the Bill and that is what I intend to do . |
| 20 | With a new applicant taking Yorkshire , with Granada strongly entrenched in Lancashire , and with ATV well placed to concentrate on the Midlands and give up its London weekend franchise , Rediffusion could reasonably assume that it would keep the London weekday contract and that ABC would move into the weekend slot vacated by ATV . |
| 21 | Its frail old shell served little other purpose than to squat on the ground and prevent any adjacent developments from creeping across it . |
| 22 | Permit me to rap on the table and murmur ‘ Pass ! ’ |
| 23 | When the scholars were invited to comment on the style and technique of the Kouros similar arguments and points were made both for and against . |
| 24 | To this end the researcher will ask specialists in the fields covered by the database to comment on the range and area of research on women and gender issues in order to establish a research agenda , and an assessment of the facilities needed for the next few years . |
| 25 | Hitchcock 's fondness for artifice , and latterly for extended European holidays combined with location filming , met with a setback in Torn Curtain ( 1966 ) , a spy story that was meant to comment on the Burgess and Maclean scandal of the early 1950s , but went wrong in scripting and casting . |
| 26 | In this case , it seems that Creole is being used , perhaps with its " jocular " symbolic value , to comment on the baby and its " cute " activities . |
| 27 | It is my duty to report to you , the members — effectively shareholders — on our financial year just passed , in terms of financial results , significant events and to comment on the health and future prospects of the Association . |
| 28 | They were essentially concerned with bartering about a price , for which purpose Gary and Aggi had sufficient expertise to comment on the quality and value of the jewellery . |
| 29 | Several systems of computer enhancement and image analysis which can be used with a petrographic microscope are beginning to come on the market and promise relative ease of modal composition evaluation . |
| 30 | I know , I know Brian would n't at least three but , and this , and this was n't really big enough and they use two side by side , whenever they were late or away for a weekend I took over and see to the cats feed , they were sweet erm used to come on the porch and meow at me , it 's my dinner time , come on , just get not time yet , used to come to the porch , and tell me , they used to know when I was n't coming home , how do they do it ? |