Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [v-ing] [pers pn] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less practical is physical destruction like squashing or bashing them on the head . |
| 2 | But many hospitals have ‘ built-up ’ pockets of specialisms and she does not think that concentrating them on fewer sites would mean the loss of centres of excellence . |
| 3 | This role will involve further service development of the factory deep cleaning service with the aim of promoting and selling it on a nationwide basis . |
| 4 | Your third option is to make up what you want by adding small decorative mouldings to plain stock , gluing and pinning them on as appropriate to create the cross-section you want . |
| 5 | The importance of locational specifications in general can be gauged from the fact that there seem to be two basic ways of referring to objects — by describing or naming them on the one hand , and by locating them on the other ( Lyons , 1977a : 648 ) . |
| 6 | You 'd have thought that re-creating it on stage would have the same effect on a modern-day director . |
| 7 | It is planned to achieve this by renovating the original ( 1903 ) corrugated iron goods shed and extending it on the sou east side where the dilapidated lean-to addition will be removed . |
| 8 | She said that putting him on bute straight away would reduce the inflammation and alternate hot and cold compresses would also help . |
| 9 | We have grown accustomed in political life to arguing about social and political institutions in a certain way : by attacking or defending them on grounds of justice or fairness . |