Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] on [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies . |
| 2 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 3 | This rather defeats its theoretical purpose of putting different types of loan over different periods of time on to an identical basis for comparison . |
| 4 | The Polish replica moved the breaking of Enigma on from a theoretical exercise to a practical one and Knox always gave the Poles credit for the part they played . |
| 5 | ‘ It is his mother , ’ Mrs Ames was saying later , dropping a blob of cream on to a warm scone , ‘ she is seventy-four . |
| 6 | Mrs Hollidaye spooned some chunks of marrow on to a slice of bread , cut it in half , and put it gently into Dot 's hand . |
| 7 | She was eating a sauce and sugar sandwich , made by shaking gobs of sauce on to a slice of white bread , sprinkling on white sugar and folding the slice over . |
| 8 | Dorothea spooned glistening black gobbets of jam on to a silver dish and wished that she could like Alida Thorne a little more . |
| 9 | He even off-loaded tens of thousands of pounds worth of stock on to a client committed to a mental asylum ( for which he was sacked ) . |
| 10 | The effect was the unloading of a mountain of stock on to a market which was becoming overheated . |