Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er they did a lot for that fun run and er made money on there erm I think they 've kept the , the image up really . |
| 2 | All the Pest Control administration teams produced projects on how to illustrate the debt collection procedure , judged on accuracy , clarity workmanship , presentation and adaptability . |
| 3 | Now you 're moving to Bilborough , you 're moving to Bilborough erm just say in five years time they got rid of the flats erm and they built houses on here on the site , would you move back ? |
| 4 | However , after exceptional items we reported losses on both an historical and a replacement cost basis in 1992 . |
| 5 | When woken from REM sleep , the self-reported dreamers reported dreams on almost every occasion ( 44 out of 49 wakenings ) and also reported dreams on about half the occasions when they were woken from REM sleep . |
| 6 | Certainly some of the material which provided advice on how boards could best become operational was beneficial . |
| 7 | From 1836 he visited Italy on more than one occasion , but these travels appear to have been prompted more by recreational than professional pursuits — he made a collection of Roman coins , medals , and other antiquities — and perhaps also by the state of his health . |
| 8 | If we used tractors on here continually pulling out timber , it would cause a lot of damage to the ground structure and would reduce the number of flowers . |
| 9 | Khrushchev saw no objection to the withdrawal of Soviet troops from a non-Sovietized country as a part of a compromise agreement and he overruled Molotov on both Austria and Porkkala . |
| 10 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 11 | He obtained directions on how to leave Whitechapel . |
| 12 | But the richest rural group , which could afford to save more , paid tax on only 14 per cent . |
| 13 | ( 5 ) In breach of their fiduciary duties they put themselves in a position where there was a conflict between their duty to the plaintiff to inform him and their personal interest in ensuring that they obtained commission on both Vertigo and Caliban. ( 6 ) As a consequence ( a ) the plaintiff was entitled to damages for breach of contract and fiduciary duties ; ( b ) the defendants , being in breach of their fiduciary duties as agents , were not entitled to their commission . |
| 14 | In another Gaza refugee camp , Israeli troops opened fire on more than 1,000 Islamic Jihad militants demonstrating against the self-rule agreement . |
| 15 | He bought used needles from drug takers , passed out new ones , and dispensed advice on how to sterilise needles with household bleach . |
| 16 | He sent Richard on ahead while he travelled south through Berry , where once again his eldest son was making heavy weather of the task assigned to him . |
| 17 | It amounted to a coded acknowledgement of the barely-supressed rage of Conservative MPs , mostly on the right , whose concern over a fresh wave of ‘ large-scale immigration ’ hitting overcrowded facilities in Britain was clothed yesterday in language close to that of Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow Foreign Secretary , who called the plan ‘ inherently unworkable , invidious and divisive ’ , and demanded details on how it would work . |
| 18 | Choosing emotionally and socially charged ( ’ generative ’ ) words and pictures of students ' problems , he generated discussion on how to improve their lives . |
| 19 | In this context of public protest the Home Office issued guidelines on how the police should behave in cases of rape complaints . |
| 20 | The Hawkridge 's sold through the estate agents Connell … who have 174 branches , many in the Central South region … last June they completed slaes on just over fifteen hundred properties … this year it was over eighteen hundred … a twenty per cent increase … |
| 21 | Within hours of the signing of the law , Janet Benshoof , an attorney from the American Civil Liberties Union , made a speech in which she deliberately gave advice on where women could obtain abortions . |
| 22 | Magazines gave instructions on how to make a pair of knickers from two silk chiffon scarves . |
| 23 | Whyte even gave tips on how to answer the questions correctly — that is , in the way the corporation would like you to : ‘ Repeat to yourself — I like things pretty well the way they are . |
| 24 | Magazines gave hints on how to m ake pretty collars and cuffs from scraps of unwanted material because we still had to look pretty . |
| 25 | In nineteen forty three wooden soled , wedge heeled shoes were introduced in the utility range and the Lady magazine gave hints on how to walk in them . |
| 26 | Those who did achieve such distinction , however , reflected glory on both school and teachers , and the English mistress at once saw how to gain advantages all round from Victoria 's unhappiness . |
| 27 | I had sores on there as big as pennies . |
| 28 | He had shoes on not trainers . |
| 29 | We had wagers on how many times the horse 's prick bounced back and forth in the time it took to cross the Parade . |
| 30 | It also carried speculation on why plants need aspirin . |