Example sentences of "to [pers pn] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are morally no worse on the whole than the lecherous men who inhabit these tales , and intellectually much superior to them on most occasions . |
| 2 | Within a few years , most Boards felt that the Consultative Councils helped to defuse individual complaints and to present a favourable image to the public , and were willing to defer to them on some matters of general policy of an essentially political or presentational nature , such as priorities in rural electrification or aspects of domestic charging . |
| 3 | Well every time I send something out writes to me on bloody DOPACS saying this is not the way to disseminate this information . |
| 4 | In his whimsical way the British prime Minister observed , ‘ This argument naturally had some appeal to me on general grounds ’ : but he did not respond . |
| 5 | There are discredited and out-of-date theories around , and I have asked officials in my Department to report to me on those matters . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , they can just think again , ’ replied Rachel hotly , ‘ and if anyone says anything to you on those lines I would be obliged if you would put them straight . ’ |
| 7 | How then does he explain to himself why his first wife refused to consummate their marriage for months , and why his second — Mandy whom he first seduced when she was just 14 — should only have agreed to make love to him on four occasions during their marriage ? |
| 8 | ( 3 ) The Director may investigate any suspected offence which appears to him on reasonable grounds to involve serious or complex fraud . … |
| 9 | Buttoning the long fitted jacket over her expensive cream gown , she went to him on determined footsteps . |
| 10 | In a way they were right but , thankfully , I was never hanged though I was close to it on many occasions . |
| 11 | The latter items , of course , like meanings , are subject to identity ; i.e. a non-meaning qua topic of discourse is necessarily such that it must be possible to refer to it on different occasions with the phrase " the same A " , where A is a descriptive expression of some sort . |
| 12 | ‘ How much more would it be , ’ John asked , ‘ if you added a modest profit to us on those outlays ? ’ |
| 13 | The key to it is with Simon Makallah , who lied to us on three occasions . ’ |