Example sentences of "a [noun] [vb pp] on [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , he agreed , would have been his first move had such a case landed on his desk , and he would have talked , too , to the local health visitor . |
| 2 | Such statements are not to be taken seriously and the courts would not support a case brought on them . |
| 3 | I sort of was a bit lost on me trig so that 's really what I want to get to go through a bit of trig . |
| 4 | Just a bit left on her legs so the baby must have used up all if the baby carries on like this she 'll be anaemic I think . |
| 5 | Only a bit left on it . |
| 6 | Somebody who has just had a trick played on them by Anancy ? |
| 7 | He has a heart tattooed on his left hand and the initial F on his left forearm . |
| 8 | Alexei thrust past Jehana and kicked the dwarfs legs from under him , then stood over him , a foot planted on his chest to prevent him from escaping again . |
| 9 | Jane contemplated designing a jumper based on her favourite sport of canoeing , but found it too ambitious . |
| 10 | ‘ She had a scorpion tattooed on her shoulder . ’ |
| 11 | You agree a figure based on what you |
| 12 | With large consumers , moreover , the cost of more complex metering was justified , and most were placed on a tariff based on their measured maximum demand as well as a cost-based running charge . |
| 13 | Big ships were heading seawards , the haven 's handsome pilot cutter Hakin was going about her business ( when I 'm terribly old , I 'd quite fancy a motor-cruiser based on her hull ) , and from one of the many sailing clubs , Mirror dinghies were towed across the calm water for a championship race . |
| 14 | And not the ones with er I 'm a hooligan tattooed on their heads . |
| 15 | But Pamela Stephenson wanted to wear one of those novelty hats with a hand holding a hammer stuck on it , and Tony Curtis fancied a huge fedora . |
| 16 | These marine otters of California regularly open mollusc shells , whilst floating on their backs , by banging them against a rock balanced on their bellies . |
| 17 | And Rowbotham wrote a piece based on her feelings as the annus mirabilis of 1968 drew to a conclusion . |
| 18 | She rules them , and it is a rule based on their trust of her and her knowledge of them . |
| 19 | In considering the solicitors ' application the Legal Services Committee prepared a submission based on what it considered was the inadequacy of the advocacy and training proposals . |
| 20 | Other methods of keeping keys safe were also employed by the Romans , a good example being a bronze wrist bracelet found in Cambridge which has a key suspended on it . |
| 21 | But you know when I when I c last time I came from France and I came a came across the widest part of the channel er I got done once I had a B written on my board and then they come and crossed it out . |
| 22 | 3.8.2 with effect from the Possession Date pay and indemnify the Landlord against all rates taxes assessments duties charges impositions and outgoings from time to time charged upon the Premises or the owner or occupier of them Although unlikely to have such a constriction placed on it , there is something to be said for inserting a similar exclusion into this clause to that inserted in clause 5.2.1 of the lease . |
| 23 | But next instant came the patter of lighter feet and a fist banged on her door . |
| 24 | ‘ Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him under this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the fifth level on the standard scale or to both . |
| 25 | In common with most organisations we have a requirement placed on us to provide a head count at periodic intervals . |
| 26 | Channel 4 Relief greeted the Government decision , announced in the spring , that Channel 4 had escaped privatisation after a battle fought on its behalf by Mr Douglas Hurd against the more vigorous free-marketeers in the cabinet committee on broadcasting . |
| 27 | Any dissent or misunderstandings can be dealt with there and then in a battle fought on your ground , at your choice of time and to your agenda . |
| 28 | It was still widely accepted that only major rulers ( kings and the republic of Venice ) could send and receive ambassadors ; and it was not clear until at least the later sixteenth century that the status of a diplomat depended on his position in this still embryonic hierarchy of ranks and not , irrespective of his title , on the standing of the ruler he represented . |
| 29 | A big erm pitcher full of tea and then a basket tied on my back with the sandwiches and and the cake of scone my mother used to back more often . |
| 30 | A woman with a brush of close-cut grey hair sat with her sewing close to the fire and a cat rested on her lap , and she looked at Millet with fear and seemed to warn her husband that this was an intruder . |