Example sentences of "from [noun] [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The job done , we repaired to the kitchen door to see literally what was cooking and to take the printed menus from Angus to put on the tables . |
| 2 | Mrs Jenny Somerville , Liddell 's sister , has sent a verse from Isaiah to inscribe on the granite headstone : ‘ They soar on wings like eagles ; they run and grow not weary . ’ |
| 3 | The architect died in 1352 and his place was taken by Peter Parler from Cologne , who was invited to come from Schwäbisch-Gmünd to work on the cathedral . |
| 4 | Deforestation , whether to clear the ground for pasture or to produce timber and fuel , was a worry in these parts of the Pyrenees as long ago as the seventeenth century , when the prescient minister Colbert sent an eminent forester from Paris to report on the local resources in wood ; but it is only quite recently that felling and replanting have been properly controlled . |
| 5 | In early 1981 , the Israelis had staged an air raid against the Rashidiyeh Palestinian camp — where Mrs Zamzam had her home — and I drove down to southern Lebanon from Beirut to report on the attack . |
| 6 | Further , we were almost certainly the first publishing operation set up from scratch to capitalise on the new technology . |