Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stagg , fined for flashing on Wimbledon Common the day Rachel died , is on police bail pending further inquiries . |
| 2 | For this reason I have made a suggestion for eating on each journey . |
| 3 | They they come down there but they have n't got enough oxygen to get up and so they got ta stay on this thing with this creature . |
| 4 | 1.55:IMPRESSIVE Mackeson winner Tipping Tim is worth opposing on an 8lb higher mark with the ground softer than he likes . |
| 5 | He is well respected and popular , as was shown when Mr Major and the Commons voiced their confidence in him earlier this year when he apologised for singing on Irish TV hours after an IRA atrocity . |
| 6 | We also got unanimous sympathy for pissing on Spurs , but ending up with just a point . |
| 7 | Tap D for Delete in the Command Menu ( not Del for Delete on the keyboard , and not Transfer Delete in the Command Area ! ) |
| 8 | This is her idea for impressing on the audience how the powerless feel . |
| 9 | They expound their policy of minimal state interference to find the ‘ least detrimental available alternative ’ — one in which child placement and procedure for child placement ‘ maximises , in accord with the child 's sense of time , the child 's opportunity for being wanted and for maintaining on a continuous , unconditional and permanent basis , a relationship with at least one adult who is or will become the child 's psychological parent ’ ( Goldstein et al. , 1979 , p. 189 ) . |
| 10 | Both sides were fired up — too much so — in some cases — and a spiteful start brought warnings for David Speedie and Keith Alexander before the third-minute incident which saw Rees dismissed for stamping on Downs with the full-back prostrate and helpless . |
| 11 | TAKE IN HOW POINTS WERE SCORED WOB GAVIN HASTINGS scored five penalties : 3min : Welsh offside from close-range scrum from which Armstrong and Gavin Hastings dunted. 22min : Offside in aftermath of lineout where Cronin and Milne liaised. 27min : Tony Copsey lectured for stamping on intervention of touch-judge Patrick Robin . |
| 12 | so he 's completely explicit about drawing on Freud , and yet says Bocock , if you look at the works of Freud , on which Parsons draws , they are mainly his works on child development and clinical psychology . |
| 13 | The Art of Laughter … a cartoonists job is all about drawing on the funny side of life … |
| 14 | Businessmen and politicians ( often the same people ) are blamed for overspending on prestige projects — including the president 's $250 million basilica — and for luxurious living . |
| 15 | Scott also suggested that in addition to carrying out some exercise or activity focused around one of the essential concepts , pupils should be given the opportunity for reflecting on the thinking processes they have gone through . |
| 16 | This talks about presuming on the future . |
| 17 | NOW that the only poll that matters is tomorrow 's , it is worth reflecting on how worthless some of the recent commercial polls have been . |
| 18 | The connection between modern architecture and tyranny awaits its historian , but it is worth reflecting on the mentality of Le Corbusier and his acolytes before being too harsh on the servile Romanian architects who competed for Ceauşescu 's favour so that they could take charge of the vast projects he had in mind . |
| 19 | However , it is worth reflecting on another dimension of the law and order forces . |
| 20 | It is worth reflecting on the difference in approach on this question between Callenbach and FAST . |
| 21 | But there is no room for resting on our laurels . |
| 22 | fold bandage and if you want , pack it away like that , you bring the end in the centre , there , so and again the ends in to the centre , just so that they meet like this , like this the centre , just so that they meet there , again , start like this , ends just to meet in the centre do n't overlap them too much and again bend into the centre and you 've got a nice little pad , if you ever need a pad for plonking on a wound quickly , there you 've got a pad , or putting against an ear or anything you want it for and you open it up quickly and you 've got a bandage , two of those and you 've got a |
| 23 | It maintains that a merger will do more harm than good because the merged group would lose orders from German car firms worried about depending on a single supplier . |
| 24 | And hated himself for depending on it . |
| 25 | Thus fortified , the Webbs decried both Owen and Marx for depending on the labour theory of value . |
| 26 | EHOs said the domestic kitchen was completely inadequate for cooking on such a scale . |
| 27 | The pans are specially designed for more efficient cooking with a unique Thermocopper base — a ‘ sandwich ’ of stainless steel , aluminium and copper — and are ideal for cooking on all heat sources ( except induction ) . |
| 28 | The mixing together of financial services has increased the scope for trading on the basis of inside information . |
| 29 | In Canada , LASMO 's shares are listed for trading on The Toronto Stock Exchange and the Montreal Exchange under the trading symbol LSO . |
| 30 | Therefore , as in the Smith study , the results indicated a marginal amount of price pressure which could not be used as a basis for trading on rights issues announcements as the effect would be swamped by transactions costs . |