Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | To bolster off the absence on its way . |
| 2 | When the first parade passed off without serious incident ( but with a massive police presence ) , the Portadown Orangemen reaffirmed their determination to go through the Tunnel on the Twelfth . |
| 3 | I found I had to get Dawn 's weight down much more than I 'd expected , or would have wished , just to persuade her to come for the food on my fist . |
| 4 | Not only did they need access to the non-arable resources controlled by the nobility , but their ever-growing land shortage compelled them to work for the nobility on conditions which had much in common with those of serfdom . |
| 5 | The drama session ends with the railway engineer offering contracts of employment to those townspeople who want to work for the railway on the construction of the line . |
| 6 | Has n't he got enough to worry about without being clobbered over the head by the injured pride of a woman fortunate enough to have the time and the brain to worry about the title on her season ticket ? |
| 7 | You wo n't have to act ; you wo n't have to worry about the expression on your face when the squad car turns up . ’ |
| 8 | The unfocused light has to pass through the retina on its journey to the mirror and this degrades the quality of the image . |
| 9 | The trap works as follows : the first rune to pass through the doorway on any day ( dawn to dawn ) is automatically drained of its power until the following sunrise . |
| 10 | To reach the sensible advice , however , you have to pass through the headline on the press release : ‘ Advice to pregnant women during lambing periods ’ . |
| 11 | Intellectual stimulation was not easy , but the care manager came up with a group of volunteers , all of them computer buffs , who were able to communicate with the man on his level . |
| 12 | The Council permitted the laity to communicate with the cup on a very few occasions . |
| 13 | Italy meanwhile , prompted by a young radical called Benito Mussolini , negotiated to come into the war on the side of the Allies . |
| 14 | This , Laing believes , will demand an entirely different approach to work with the emphasis on flexibility . |
| 15 | The Union of October ( Octobrists ) , a loose political alliance led by landed nobility and a few prominent industrialists , was formed to work with the Tsar on the basis of the Manifesto . |
| 16 | More enthusiastic was the Union of 17 October ( Octobrists ) , a loose political alliance led by landed nobility and a few prominent industrialists , which was formed to work with the Tsar on the basis of the Manifesto . |
| 17 | Therefore , the sort of person attracted to work in the bureaucracy on the implementation of such programmes was likely to be sympathetic to them and their commitment to the programmes was likely to grow rather than diminish with time . |
| 18 | Mr Mike Bennett , chairman of the Metropolitan branch of the Police Federation , said last night : ‘ I just hope that the honourable thing is done in relation to the 18 other officers who are still to come before the magistrate on January 25 . ’ |
| 19 | One may appear in person before the court , but solicitors do not have a general right of audience ; hence a solicitor must instruct a barrister to appear before the court on the litigant 's behalf — note , however , the provisions of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 ( ss. 27–33 ) discussed above . |
| 20 | The 15-year-old has been bailed to appear before the court on May 27 . |
| 21 | Mr Renton , whose company has been suspended by the Financial Intermediaries and Managers Brokers Regulatory Association , was remanded to appear in the court on Monday |
| 22 | Amstrad is the only company also to appear in the return on capital bottom 10 . |
| 23 | It told him to come to the court on a certain day to defend himself before a Commissioner and the man who said he owed him money . |
| 24 | She was taking a long time to come to the attempt on Marek 's life that morning . |
| 25 | ‘ all had been agreed between the husband and the manager on the Friday , and … the manager left it to the husband to persuade the wife to come to the bank on the Monday to execute the charge and sign the guarantee . |
| 26 | The inference which is really overwhelming is that all had been agreed between the husband and [ Bunn ] on the Friday , and that [ Bunn ] left it to the husband to persuade the wife to come to the bank on the Monday to execute the charge and sign the guarantee . |
| 27 | John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end . |
| 28 | I am writing this letter in a personal capacity , but as Chairman of the Education Committee and a member of the Membership & Recruitment Committee , perhaps I am well placed to comment on the debate on entry requirements . |
| 29 | At the moment , under English law , data is not property , and damage or theft has to relate to the medium on which it is stored . |
| 30 | There will always be room for individual styles , but file management systems inject some standardisation to assist the lawyer conducting the cases and others who have to work on the case on a temporary or permanent basis . |