Example sentences of "[that] [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state monopoly of television in a country that prided itself on its tradition of freedom and pluralism of the means of expression — failed . |
| 2 | One trainee on a course for people looking for employment commented that seeing himself on video in a mock interview was an experience that changed his life . |
| 3 | New York is uncommon political turf , and Mr Brown has been helped mightily by a press that prides itself on its aggression and which does not much like Mr Clinton . |
| 4 | Recently I was shown around the offices of a community church that prides itself on its radical Christian commitment . |
| 5 | As you 'd expect from the range that prides itself on keeping your garden in shape . |
| 6 | Close to the centre of Kitzbühel is this four-star hotel that prides itself on maintaining high standards . |
| 7 | In a region that prides itself on its cuisine and that boasts a strong tourist industry , it might have been supposed that indigenous entrepreneurs would leap at such an opportunity . |
| 8 | Kozyrev highlighted the spirit of co-operation between the two sides : " We worked as friends and allies standing on one side of the barricade of all the problems that beset us on the other . " |
| 9 | The walk that defeated me on the way up seemed to take about five minutes coming down , and despite the forced cheery countenance of my friends , I knew I had ruined the day . |
| 10 | It oozed slimy green algae that plastered itself on her face and clothes . |
| 11 | What is it about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that places him on an artistic par with Shakespeare or Rembrandt , a giant of his art ? |
| 12 | But however unpleasant monsoonal conditions can on occasion be , they are as nothing compared with the fearsome storms that hurl themselves on the Pacific with terrible regularity . |
| 13 | This afternoon that put them on environment minister Michael Howard 's hit list . |
| 14 | I saved you that put it on his bike . |
| 15 | Jones revealed : ‘ A lot of people say to me ‘ that put you on the map ’ . |
| 16 | Frankie themselves were typical graduates of the 1970s post-punk provincial scene ( five lads from Liverpool ) in which Bowie boys became punks and skins , dyed their hair repeatedly , hung out in the gay clubs with the furtiveness that marks everyone on provincial streets in the small hours . |
| 17 | I always look forward to doing the show 'cause we meet all our friends that watch us on television , do n't we Jeffrey ? |
| 18 | I was normally the first RAF person to view the scene , and I find it quite unbearable to attempt to describe the desolation and carnage that confronted one on a hilltop in the isolation and splendour of the Scottish Highlands . |
| 19 | Richard Baxter summed up his life in these words , ‘ Weakness and pain helped me to study how to die ; that set me on studying how to live ; beginning with necessities , I proceeded by degrees , and now I am going to see that for which I have lived and studied . ’ |
| 20 | An interpretation I have often heard is that God 's ways are mysterious and wonderful , and it may well be that in the very last moments of the person 's life they had an encounter with God that set them on the path to eternal life . |
| 21 | It is a kind of debunk manquée , not the whole hog sort that keeps you on the edge of your chair waiting for yet more astounding revelations , but in a snider kind — like those Sunday supplement interviews which are dressed up as journalistic frankness , but whose real purpose is barb and innuendo . ’ |
| 22 | It 's the news that keeps you on the move . |
| 23 | The driving force that keeps you on the road best . |
| 24 | Conceptually , the inner city is a space outside society which has shown , for whatever reasons , a marked recalcitrance in responding to the macro-economic revival that surrounded it on all sides ( Massey and Meegan , 1989 ) . |
| 25 | Best-selling single — Rivers of Babylon/ Brown Girl in the Ring , Boney M. This was the one that shamed you on holiday . |
| 26 | I would shrink away in instant horror from the hand that placed itself on my arm or shoulder in an embarrassed and half-hearted attempt at communication . |
| 27 | As he tried to grab me , I feinted , slipped back to make him follow me , knowing he would think I was afraid , and then I let him have a classic straight left that hit him on the point of the jaw . |
| 28 | Philip Tufnell is welcomed back to Test cricket after his appendix operation by a Waqar Younis yorker that hit him on the foot |
| 29 | Council members mostly agreed they are a hazard , and Peter pointed out that if the car that hit him on a roundabout had been fitted with them , he would n't be here now . |
| 30 | They recorded information on the circumstances of the death and the symptoms and signs that preceded it on a form that included both an open history of the final illness and screening questions for the presence of common symptoms , followed by the application of appropriate modules with precoded answers . |