Example sentences of "on [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brezhnev 's proposals for the Gulf were characterised as an ‘ extension of the conditions which the Soviet Union set earlier on the normalisation of conditions in the basin of the Indian Ocean , on transforming it into a zone of peace ’ . |
| 2 | Structural faults sent budgeted costs soaring , work on transforming it into a leisure empire stopped and its £100m debts were taken over by the Hong Kong brothers in February . |
| 3 | Lucenzo had been hell-bent on intimidating her from the beginning . |
| 4 | On seeing him in the nude , the girls ' screams of fear turn into roars of laughter . |
| 5 | There the young ladies ' brother found me , when he returned home a few minutes later , and he insisted , much against the housekeeper 's wishes , on bringing me into the house . |
| 6 | not to let them get out of the pov that 's what I 'm saying , it suits them because they can buy up property much cheaper than if that two hundred pounds a week that 's being spent on bed and breakfast , that , they were spent on helping them with the problems as they are at the moment . |
| 7 | The East Germans were not set on abolishing the distinction between town and country , just perhaps on smothering it in a pall of acidic smoke and rain . |
| 8 | He insisted on tackling it with a knife and fork . |
| 9 | Under the heading ‘ A better quality of life ’ , Labour 's policy review for the 1990s declared that the future of the planet depended on keeping it at the top of the agenda : |
| 10 | Forest manager Brian Clough insists on keeping it in the family after Liverpool boss Graeme Souness had made a move for Nigel . |
| 11 | The only exception to this rule was Uncle Jack , who clearly had his sights set on several more whiskies when Charlotte insisted , at Ursula 's request , on driving him to the station and seeing him aboard the London train . |
| 12 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 13 | When faced with one ‘ old boy type ’ executive' who on meeting her with a view to beginning an assignment declared that there was no place for women in his business , she announced that as he was obviously only looking for someone just like himself , he could do that better than she could . |
| 14 | He reported after the Sixth Comintern Congress that ’ As a rule , when we tell our Latin American comrades , on meeting them for the first time , that the situation of their country is that of a semi-colony and consequently we must consider the problems concerning it from the viewpoint of our colonial or semi-colonial tactics , they are indignant at this notion and assert that their country is independent , that it is represented in the League of Nations , has its own diplomats , consulates , etc . ’ |
| 15 | Collinson was meticulous in his careful distribution of plants and seeds always including instructions on growing them in a manner approximating to their native conditions , as carefully described by John Bartram . |
| 16 | ASSURED TENANCIES — residential tenancies in properties that are newly built or have had at least £5000 spent on improving them in the two years before they were first let . |
| 17 | Not that Andrew Orkney will dwell too much this week on leading them into the Canal Turn and over the final six flights and up the long finish and on to the post and becoming the first optician to win and riding into history . |
| 18 | IN the middle 80s , snooker was booming and I was doing my best to cash-in on selling it around the world . |
| 19 | My mother insisted on accompanying me to the tailor to ensure that I got something sensible . |
| 20 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |
| 21 | There was a need for vigilance of the type in which Collins specialises , since the Germans had restarted the match apparently intent on finishing it as a contest in time for the largely youthful audience at Ibrox to get home to bed at a respectable hour . |
| 22 | And yet , when they were together , he insisted on treating her with a cool , bland charm which left her feeling baffled and frustrated . |
| 23 | But they insisted on treating her like a child — or , what was worse , like an adolescent . |
| 24 | Rutherford again made the best stand of the innings , for the fourth wicket , with the captain who was n't keen on having him in the team . |
| 25 | And Francois-Poncet , on succeeding him at the Academie : |
| 26 | You know nothing about me , and yet you insist on crediting me with a lifestyle more likely your own ! ’ |
| 27 | As he cried out , she insisted on taking him for a drive in her car . |
| 28 | The previous evening they had insisted on taking her to the cinema , ignoring her protests that she would rather see the Molière play at the Comédie Française , to watch Jacques Prévert 's film Les Enfants du Paradis . |
| 29 | Would Geoffrey insist on taking her on a tour of every English don in the college ? |
| 30 | In the early days , when they still slept together , he had insisted on taking her during a period : remaining perfectly motionless , in her , on her — sometimes for hours . |