Example sentences of "to [pers pn] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | within the first-aiders and the , and obviously to try and try and drive it to them on that issue . |
| 2 | Contemporary audiences would have understood that the film appealed to them on that level but were also aware that the tragedy of the film consisted of an ordinary innocent American being hounded by external events and being forced into failure and crime . |
| 3 | Almost all of them had crude magic swords , whose unsuppressed harmonics on the astral plane played hell with any delicate experiments in applied sorcery for miles around , but Rincewind did n't object to them on that score . |
| 4 | Fathers took pleasure and pride in their sons ' successes , but did not publicly defer to them on that account . |
| 5 | They are morally no worse on the whole than the lecherous men who inhabit these tales , and intellectually much superior to them on most occasions . |
| 6 | Within a few years , most Boards felt that the Consultative Councils helped to defuse individual complaints and to present a favourable image to the public , and were willing to defer to them on some matters of general policy of an essentially political or presentational nature , such as priorities in rural electrification or aspects of domestic charging . |
| 7 | Christians need to remember the words recorded of Jesus : " Not everyone who says to me on that day , Lord , Lord , shall enter the Kingdom but those who do the will of the Father " ( Matthew 7:21 ) . |
| 8 | No , but if the hon. Gentleman has views that he would like to express to me on that closure , I should be delighted to hear from him . |
| 9 | There are discredited and out-of-date theories around , and I have asked officials in my Department to report to me on those matters . |
| 10 | If you have any comments you would like to make to me on this exercise I shall be most grateful to receive them . |
| 11 | PAMELA : Why do you impute jealousy to me on this score ? |
| 12 | I am most grateful , therefore , to James Freeman , chairman of the PLC who spoke to me on this matter . |
| 13 | If we could get Laura saying nasty words to me on this tape ! |
| 14 | He named another person who , he said , was wearing a T-shirt identical to his on that evening . |
| 15 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |
| 16 | I have been asked to write to you on this matter because this hazard was drawn to your attention in my letter of 18th April 1991 following the Annual Parish Meeting . |
| 17 | But I will ask dir , the director to re , respond to you on this Mr , er , er , did you want to also put this to vote ? |
| 18 | Can , can I make a suggestion to you on this point and that is that rather than worrying about the date of the document itself which makes sense just to put January or something like that , what you actually keep a careful record of and this can be with the issue and such like , is the date from which that procedure is required to be worked to , which would be the issue date as opposed to any date that it was typed or agreed or anything like that . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , they can just think again , ’ replied Rachel hotly , ‘ and if anyone says anything to you on those lines I would be obliged if you would put them straight . ’ |
| 20 | Next Wed 's possible visit to London — there 'll probably be a train strike that day , so maybe we should think of alternative ways of getting whatever it is you want me to bring down to you on another day ? |
| 21 | ‘ If I 'd been fitter I would have been sitting next to him on that aeroplane , ’ said heartbroken Fiona , who had nicknamed her lover the ‘ Kiwi Crocodile Dundee . ’ |
| 22 | Will he carefully consider the representations that I have sent to him on that subject ? |
| 23 | Roman frowned and she knew he was angry at her manoeuvre , but he was far too fond of holding her close to him on any excuse , and she was finding his touch more and more disturbing . |
| 24 | If it was really the case that he did not mention the power of attorney when speaking to her on that occasion and left her in ignorance of her responsibilities and status , his failure shows , in my opinion , such a want of care as to preclude him from relying , in support of his non est factum plea , on her ignorance of the power . |
| 25 | As for us , we have your story , we have a saint who has made her way back to us by strange ways , and we have those who have been friends to her on that journey , and may well believe , as you believe , that the lady has been in control of her own destiny , and choosing her own friends and her own dependants . |
| 26 | She wished that Fernando had in fact made fiery , passionate and glorious love to her on that blanket , because at least her body would have been sated and that would have been something at the very least . |
| 27 | If inviting an elderly parent to come to live with you in your own home seems to be the best way of helping her in her last years , the first overtures you make to her on this subject need to be very tactful , bearing all the hallmarks of a really welcoming invitation . |
| 28 | In a way they were right but , thankfully , I was never hanged though I was close to it on many occasions . |
| 29 | And talking of cards , ’ she went on quickly as it registered with Fabia that if adding Cara 's name to hers on any card she sent home was n't lying , then she did n't know what was , ‘ you 'd better take a couple of my business cards . ’ |
| 30 | But they said to us on that night ‘ unless we have the full £150,000 for the seven performances we 've done and the eighth which we are about to do we wo n't go on . ’ |