Example sentences of "[verb] an [noun] on [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I propose an advance on your future status that will assist you at this point and hold you fast to our mutual course . |
| 2 | They drove in silence , and when she dared to glance across at him she found an expression on his face that she could not read at all . |
| 3 | Fournier , who was keeping an eye on their end of the table , called , ‘ Look after young Flavia 's glass — she likes her tipple . ’ |
| 4 | Now Simon Ratcliffe 's been in er all this lunchtime sort of keeping an eye on me have n't you Simon ? |
| 5 | He seems to spend most of his spare time keeping an eye on your house . ’ |
| 6 | As I clambered up the ranks of steep terraces , keeping an eye on my train time , early mist still clung to the bare mountainous knives of rock , and the mountain that the fortress itself stood on was festooned with dark trailing grasses like seaweed , adding to its otherworldliness . |
| 7 | It felt quite pleasant sitting at a desk , being taught geography and physics again , and keeping an eye on our son . |
| 8 | It is also time to worry , for such a strong consensus generally has an over-reaction on its coat-tails , one that could do more damage than the action to which it is a response . |
| 9 | A lingering concern ( given great prominence in the press ) is whether the violence to which children are exposed in countless images on the small screen has an effect on their own behaviour . |
| 10 | In my experience it 's always , it 's higher than low pay , and I do n't believe that companies go to an area because the payment of wages is low if everything else is not favourable to them as well , in fact low pay in itself does not attract , and conversely , I do n't think the thought 's an impossibility , because I 've talked to potential inward investors , and jokingly , sort of teased them and if you get enough companies coming into Shropshire , then inevitably wages will go up , and they 're intelligent people , and they realize it , and they not the magic ball , and of course when local shopkeepers are concerned about their businesses , then the amount of wages that are available to spend has an effect on your local small company . |
| 11 | In the Soviet view ‘ new aspects in the idea of neutralisation ’ of Southeast Asia involved an emphasis on its ‘ full conformity with the policy of non-alignment and the decisions of corresponding conferences on this problem ’ . |
| 12 | Few of us would be surprised to find an interviewer on our doorstep asking us to give a few moments of our time " to answer one or two questions " on our voting habits , which TV programmes we watch or which washing powder we use . |
| 13 | In the present case a post office worker sustained an injury on his left shin . |
| 14 | The contact with Wren is of particular interest in that it provided an influence on his own architectural style , to be seen , for example , in the Clare north range ; but otherwise his designs display a pleasant artisan manner rather than a full understanding of the grammar of classical architecture . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought that , since your society has been in existence for ten years , I might do an article on your work . ’ |
| 16 | Peter had made an attack on his sister . |
| 17 | It thought about Daine , the only human being who had made an impact on his century large enough to impinge significantly on Yggdrasil 's consciousness . |
| 18 | She knew his tough unconcern over her other love affairs put an edge on his interest , an edge sharpened by her money . |
| 19 | Viewing the game through the eyes of the six marines , your mission follows the film 's plot in a roundabout type of way : your task is to destroy anything resembling an alien on your way to a confrontation with the alien queen . |
| 20 | ‘ If I 'd had an op on my knee that summer it might have been all right . |
| 21 | The enormous push we have seen in Hygiene over recent months , has indeed had an influence on our results . |
| 22 | Perhaps West who had been very conscious of social needs , had had an influence on his thoughts on such matters . |
| 23 | She has had an operation on her punctured lung . |
| 24 | Do you think that 's had an effect on your your mates as well ? |
| 25 | He 's therefore been stuck , living on er friends ' floors for the last few weeks , not being able to go back to his girlfriend and not being able to see his children , er and Madam that 's had an effect on his , on his business as well . |
| 26 | By contrast , the difference in the very structure and , perhaps more importantly , the presentation of the online catalogue has undoubtedly had an impact on its users . |
| 27 | We can observe , then , that the new technology has already had an impact on our lives in three major ways . |
| 28 | Now the temps an and the two new business people for example have definitely had an impact on our ability to be as productive as you normally expect to be . |
| 29 | And standing on the resting birds are massive caryatids — each one as grim and unsmiling as might be expected of a lady who is balancing an arch on her head . |
| 30 | Cosmetic surgery was rare in those days , but John had needed an operation on his nose because he suffered from a condition ( apparently a deviated septum ) which hampered his breathing . |