Example sentences of "[verb] on [pos pn] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He whined and shivered , and my young blood mixed on his slavering chops with gamey saliva and thick eye-mucus as he girned and looked shakily and pleadingly up at my father , who picked him up and strangled him . |
| 2 | Arnold Palmer , Gary Player , George Archer and Jack Nicklaus are the only golfers ever to have won on their first appearance in a US Senior Tour event . |
| 3 | Once again they dined on their bland diet of soup , meat and biscuits . |
| 4 | Congratulations to Cynthia Rose on her excellent article on the Spike Lee industry ( FACE 25 ) . |
| 5 | Relatives who are carers may also find that the requirement for professional support to be given locally infringes on their own rights to privacy . |
| 6 | Later , particularly during the period of mid-Victorian agricultural prosperity , farmers left the village to live in often newly built farmhouses , which were located on their own holdings of land . |
| 7 | Early pioneers like Robert William Paul or James Williamson entered on their new enterprise with confidence , even though they were only individual craftsmen working out of small workshops and studios . |
| 8 | John Shaw , who entered on his new farm on the Oa was given a complimentary day 's ploughing and James Hutson his annual day . |
| 9 | TV busybody Loyd Grossman says he would think twice about appearing on his own show Through The Keyhole . |
| 10 | Larry Parks is remembered for being one of the first to inform on his Communist friends before the committee , better remembered perhaps than he is for impersonating Al Jolson in two films which made him , at that time , a star . |
| 11 | He capitalized on his Olympic success by lauding himself , pronouncing himself ‘ The Greatest ’ , and arrogantly winning the world title under the most outrageous circumstances . |
| 12 | They have responded to excess capacity in a variety of ways , but generally by seeking to concentrate on their perceived areas of expertise . |
| 13 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 14 | While Schimer/Mosel continues to concentrate on its good list of German editions of international books on photography , one German original is Museumsbilder , the first complete publication of a series of fifteen large colour photographs taken by Thomas Struth in leading museums of the world ( DM58 ) . |
| 15 | Among the many exhibitions organised by Bean was ‘ Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Musée du Louvre , Paris ’ , which drew on his professional links with the Louvre Bean had worked at the Cabinet des Dessins as Chargé de mission à titre étranger from 1957 to 1960 . |
| 16 | Work has also been done with English and communications skills staff who have been offered separate introductory courses which build on their existing expertise in language analysis . |
| 17 | She wore a safari suit and khaki hat perched on her slipping load of hair . |
| 18 | Established around 1230 by the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great , the castle stands perched on its rocky peninsula over the little seaside resort and commands superb views over Tremadog Bay . |
| 19 | They arrived on the coat-tails of the brief interest in ska music at the end of the Seventies with their lively but inconsequential ‘ The Prince ’ and ‘ One Step Beyond ’ , but they quickly built on their early success with ‘ My Girl ’ and ‘ Baggy Trousers ’ . |
| 20 | They come across as a splendid reminder of the days , only just past , when the English and Irish upper class had not become embittered and still looked on their poorer neighbours with sympathy and kindly humour . |
| 21 | I sucked on my hollow reed for a while , staring up at the sky . |
| 22 | Michael looks on his new play as a celebration . |
| 23 | It is important that each surgeon should know who else has been instructed so that they can concentrate on their own area of expertise and ignore areas which are outside their province . |
| 24 | We were caught on our last night at Dhundi by the first of seven days bad weather . |
| 25 | Each will focus on its own area of specialisation . |
| 26 | McRae and Cairncross ( 1984,2 ) argue that the growth of the City originated in the large volume of government borrowing in the eighteenth century to pay for Britain 's foreign wars ; the Industrial Revolution took place almost independently of the City , which thereby showed that it perhaps could survive on its financial wits as a major service centre . |
| 27 | ‘ If it 's so obvious to you , dear , ’ he said , trowelling on his own measure of irony , ‘ I 'll leave you to deal with it , shall I ? ’ |
| 28 | They based almost all their work on anthropological techniques , but they were interested in the wide variety of life styles that they found on their own doorsteps in Chicago , not in simple societies . |
| 29 | The appalling hardship , primitive conditions , tremendous heat on the exposed rocky outcrop , and the omnipresent spice of danger which he encountered on his first experience of active service , appealed to the adventurous and the Spartan in Leslie , and salved the conscience that had irked him during his long training and frustrating inactivity at home . |
| 30 | Having been aware of only detrimental media coverage of Prince Charles , I was heartened to read your profile in the January issue , which concentrated on his varied contribution to British life , especially his involvement with the conservation of the countryside . |