Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on [art] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Caro could n't help feeling snubbed that her mother had not given the lettuce a little squeeze , to see how good and hearty it was , or commented on the size and perfect shape of the radishes . |
| 2 | If your man 's hair is thinning or he 's bald , he can cut down the chances of getting a burnt head by using high-protection skin suncream or get on the hair and scalp . |
| 3 | The mundane details of the denunciations , the decrees against Jews using the telephone or travelling on the Métro and so on had brought home to him that the French had both suffered by and been complicit in the Holocaust . |
| 4 | Occasional complaints come from the presence of lead in water , usually through dark lead sulphide staining , but these generally arise from contact with lead or solder on the plant and rarely from contamination of the water , although this could occur when very soft water is in contact with new lead piping . |
| 5 | This is a provision which is usually inserted , since , once an order has been placed , it becomes a separate contract , with a life of its own , and stands or falls on the terms and conditions which govern it . |
| 6 | Young men began ringing up or arriving on the doorstep and announcing themselves as ‘ Wedgie ’ or ‘ Snubs ’ or ‘ Schizo ’ and saying that Conor was the best there was , and was there anything they could do ? |
| 7 | She moved purposefully away to the group who lay in the darkness under the cypress trees , or sat on the walls and steps of the garden , and began to activate them so that a light dress , or white pair of jeans could be seen jigging about in the night that had suddenly fallen . |
| 8 | Its frail old shell served little other purpose than to squat on the ground and prevent any adjacent developments from creeping across it . |
| 9 | But the men had to balance it up by , what they called chits , tha that came on every garment and how much er money they were getting for it . |
| 10 | Erika was still not completely sure what the text meant but one thing about it was clear , people had better things to do than to dwell on the past and surely — it came upon Erika in a flash of intuition — surely the State was doing just that : not , of course , leaving the dead unmourned , and certainly not forgetting the evils of Fascism , but moving forward — preaching a socialist gospel — and not merely preaching it , doing it : making a fairer , better , juster Germany . |
| 11 | I can think of very little more boring than lying on the floor and doing sit-ups and leg lifts every morning . |
| 12 | Instead of picking out creatures that are buried , they collect spire shells and crustaceans that lie on the surface and they find them by sight . |
| 13 | the true gypsies are clean , it 's the , what we call the tinkers , just the travellers that pop on a site and move on |
| 14 | It had been most enjoyable with a tremendous amount of flying : I had been in every part of the Command — Persia as it was in those days , down the Gulf and all the way round the Gulf to Bahrain , Salalah , I took part in the search for the Imperial Airways Argosy airliner City of Glasgow that landed on the beach and was literally lost for a couple of days before one of the Shaihah crews found it away down beyond Sulwah Wells . |
| 15 | Standing in front of them was an extremely old man with a beard that trailed on the ground and long flowing white hair . |
| 16 | But prison regulations then ( and now ) permit prisoners to have only radios that operate on the medium and long waves . |
| 17 | Fires are better prevented than put out and that 's the way the Profitboss views it , preferring to learn from the problem rather than go on a witch-hunt and blame someone for it . |
| 18 | She moved up the stairs past the few skins that lay on a table and made her way into the office . |
| 19 | He picked up the file that lay on the desk and flipped it open . |
| 20 | Quickly she banished the memory , but as she was about to declare she thought he had a sauce , he had opened the folder that lay on the desk and , taking out a sheet of paper , inspected it through the lenses . |
| 21 | A systems approach to budgeting that focuses on the outcomes and objectives of government policy can not avoid controversy . |
| 22 | numerals that align on the baseline and at the top . |
| 23 | For the nursery class , the researcher studied and commented on the data and then discussed what emerged with the staff . |
| 24 | Similarly teams of medical advisers were brought down to William Osborne to inspect and comment on the level and location of medical equipment so that as the boat was built the right equipment was installed in the right place . |
| 25 | in our house if one of you 's in the bathroom in the bath like if Russell 's in the bath I go and sit on the toilet and talk to him and the dog 's in there as well and you ca n't move . |
| 26 | They took turns to walk around inside and sit on the bunks and then George left to go home for tea . |
| 27 | The palm branch was broken and placed on the grave and the cakes and bread distributed . |
| 28 | As soon as possible , he was on his own again , moving from place to place , sleeping rough in barns , in caves , or in the open , and depending on the support and generosity of the common people for succour and sustenance , repaying them with prayer and preaching . |
| 29 | Depending on their flair and the quality of their training they will need differing degrees of support , and depending on the school and the LEA they will either get it or not . |
| 30 | I would n't mind , but it 's normally me that goes and sleeps on the settee and I do n't see why I should . |