Example sentences of "to [art] [noun pl] on [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | You ca n't , you took it to the cleaners on Saturday … |
2 | Never , since he was a child , had he missed coming up to the Foinmen on Beltane . |
3 | The beginning ( 1–10 ) is substantially based on the essay of summer 1870 , " The Dionysiac Philosophy " , although one sequence ( 5–6 is more closely related to the lectures on Sophocles ' Oedipus Rex ( also from 1870 ) and the rejected fragments " On music and words " . |
4 | A perfect day 's drive would be a visit to the islands on Lake Constance , including Mainau , which is famous for its tropical and exotic plants first planted back in 1827 . |
5 | The proposed referendum on the future status of the United States Virgin Islands ( USVI ) , due to be held on Nov. 14 , 1989 , was postponed after the damage caused to the islands on Sept. 17-23 by hurricane " Hugo " [ see p. 36891 ] . |
6 | The market will return to the cobbles on Market Square , and shops will stay open when construction starts early next year , with Friar 's Square Mark Two ready for business in spring 1991 . |
7 | The couple will collect the tins from homes and plan to send a convoy to the kennels on April 12 . |
8 | Jorge Eduardo Avendaño Arango , one of nine who escaped from prison in July with Pablo Escobar Gaviria , leader of the Medellín drug cartel [ see p. 39001 ] , and who was one of Escobar 's most " trusted men " , surrendered to the authorities on Sept. 15 . |
9 | Four more of the cartel 's prominent leaders had surrendered to the authorities on July 4 bringing the total number in custody to 13 , including the cartel 's leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria [ see p. 38283 ] . |
10 | Three of Escobar 's important subordinates — his brother Roberto Escobar Gaviria , Otoniel González and John Jairo Velásquez — had surrendered to the authorities on Oct. 8 . |
11 | Over 140 activists of the United Liberation Front of Assam ( ULFA ) surrendered to the authorities on April 11 . |
12 | Jorge Luis Ochoa , joint leader of the Medellín drug cartel , surrendered to the authorities on Jan. 15 in response to government assurances in September and October including a guarantee that drug traffickers who gave themselves up would not be extradited to the United States [ see pp. 37772 ; 37851 ] . |
13 | The A-Z told me that the gardens off the alley belonged to the houses on Lee Metford Road and there seemed no good reason why Nevil had not just driven straight there . |
14 | In a broadcast appeal to the electors on May 28th , he denounced the idea that unemployment could be cured by ‘ patchwork ’ and declared that Labour 's solution was ‘ not a programme of relief works upon which the capital spent will be mainly lost to the country . |
15 | Rather than wait for the 28th CPSU congress due in July , as had been expected [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , a plenum of the CPSU central committee had given the party 's endorsement to the changes on March 11 . |
16 | The amateurs from head office took to the boards on May 11–13 for the Black Friars ' latest production . |
17 | In addition to the bans on Fairbank and M'Barki , there were eight-match suspensions for Neil Geary ( Warrington ) , Phil Southward ( Runcorn ) , Frank Simpson ( Huddersfield ) , Mick Hughes ( Dewsbury ) , Richard Mead ( Halifax ) and Derek Bridgeman ( Sheffield ) . |
18 | When Cheltenham goes to the polls on April the ninth , it 'll attract international attention … for three reasons . |
19 | Estonia and Latvia went to the polls on March 3 , and Georgia on March 31 . |
20 | In line with constitutional arrangements agreed at the February 1990 conference on reform [ see p. 37812 ] , the country went to the polls on March 10 to elect a president . |
21 | Voters went to the polls on Jan. 20 for run-off elections for those National Assembly seats where no candidate had won an overall majority on the first ballot ( held in conjunction with the presidential elections on Dec. 16 ) . |
22 | Voters in the City of Oxford , Cherwell and West Oxfordshire will be going to the Polls on Thursday to elect 50 District Councillors . |
23 | Botswana goes to the polls on Saturday , when seven parties will contest 34 seats in the country 's single chamber . |
24 | ELECTION day comes a little early for a Middlesbrough school which goes to the polls on Wednesday . |
25 | Scotland was kilt-deep in it ; it was up to the lorry-axles on Shap , up to the bus-steps in London . |
26 | It is , however , possible that this animal is a hunting dog similar to the types on Colchester vessels . |
27 | Government forces delivered a critical blow to the rebels on March 7 when the Defence Ministry 's communication links were severed . |
28 | BRIAN DEANE was last night assured that his Sheffield United place is not under threat — even though the £3 million rated striker was demoted to the reserves on Monday . |
29 | Denise Bolger gave her statement to the police on February the thirteenth the day after her son James disappeared but before his body was found on a railway embankment in Walton . |
30 | That narrow smile was pressed to the scars on Justine 's throat . |