Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minton asked on arriving , proving this revelation with the thousand-franc notes he produced and which enabled his young friends each in turn to take Mimi or Fifi upstairs , Hunt having previously thought that these girls , whom they drew and took dancing , were secretaries . |
| 2 | He is worried , however , that the team which won the East Championship so well could be broken up if Chelmsford insist on retaining all their players for friendly matches . |
| 3 | Mrs Bridges maintained : ‘ Mr Newton admitted on Friday that he had made up his end of the story . |
| 4 | Defence Minister Lassane Ouangraoua revealed on Jan. 8 that an army non-commissioned officer had plotted to overthrow the government on Dec. 28 . |
| 5 | Lord Devlin expanded on this in the lorry accident case in 1969 : |
| 6 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 7 | President Didier Ratsiraka announced on July 28 that he had dismissed his government and would organize a referendum on a new constitution before the end of the year . |
| 8 | Britain 's Courtaulds and Hoechst of Germany agreed on a joint venture that will merge their viscose and acrylic-fibres businesses in Europe . |
| 9 | West Germany agreed on Sept. 15 , 1989 , to convert $418,500,000 of official debt into grants , on condition that Kenya use the local currency equivalent for environmental improvement and conservation projects . |
| 10 | The attack by Gilbert Wakefield [ q.v. ] there on public worship roused her to its defence in Cursory Remarks on an Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public Worship ( 1792 ) , using the pseudonym ‘ Eusebia ’ . |
| 11 | Mr Jemps got on his feet belligerently . |
| 12 | A limited amount of post-production editing can , however , be carried out on the original recording , either on the camcorder or on a second VCR depending on the facilities available . |
| 13 | After talks with the IMF Vieira announced on April 12 , 1990 , a series of measures to control expenditure in the public sector and to centralize tax collection . |
| 14 | Taylor lived on Martha 's Vineyard for most of his life . |
| 15 | Her car was ploughed into by 19-year-old Howard Sloane , whose Seat Ibiza skidded on a corner , said prosecutor Derek Halbert . |
| 16 | A district judge in San Francisco ruled on Oct. 4 , 1989 , that women employed by the state of California were not victims of sexual discrimination . |
| 17 | Former Prime Minister Maitrika Prasad Koirala announced on Feb. 19 the formation of a new political party , Rashtriya Janata Parishad , under his chairmanship , which would work to provide a democratic alternative to the Nepali Congress Party . |
| 18 | God knows what they would make of Georgina when Victoria passed on an estimate of her age . |
| 19 | US troops in Panama remain on the highest state of alert . |
| 20 | When , each morning of that first anxious week , Colonel de Barescut attended the sickbed at Souilly to report on the events of the previous night , he had been asked the same question : ‘ What 's new on the Left Bank ? ’ |
| 21 | Lawson insists on high interest rates |
| 22 | As the hippies had all but gone the police and the RSPCA pounced on a lorry , inside was a horse which had been badly injured in a road accident . |
| 23 | Mongolia and Panama applied on Oct. 8 to join GATT , and membership was also under consideration for Algeria , Bulgaria , China , Honduras , Nepal and Paraguay . |
| 24 | The floor machine was in the living room , the long black thing that Marcus rubs on the carpet snaking in front of the sofa . |
| 25 | The Intergovernmental Group for Indonesia ( IGGI ) meeting in the Netherlands agreed on June 12 to provide a record US$4,750 million in aid and credits to Indonesia in 1991/92 , a 5.3 per cent increase over the 1990/91 package . |
| 26 | US Secretary of State James Baker announced on Aug. 12 that the USA had received a formal request from the deposed Kuwaiti government to enforce UN sanctions under the self-defence article ( Article 51 ) of the UN Charter . |
| 27 | Althea Greenan goes on a walkabout around central London galleries |
| 28 | Apparently after two weeks of secret negotiations with prominent Croatian Serbs , Tudjman announced on July 31 that legislation had been prepared to offer home rule ( with its own police force ) to the Serbian community in the self-proclaimed " Autonomous Region of Krajina " . |
| 29 | Charlie Francis said at the Canadian Enquiry that all the world 's top athletes were on drugs — that was his excuse for encouraging Ben to go on steroids . |
| 30 | Wigeon grazed on the far shore . |