Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | US troops in Panama remain on the highest state of alert . |
| 4 | 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | The floor machine was in the living room , the long black thing that Marcus rubs on the carpet snaking in front of the sofa . |
| 6 | Wigeon grazed on the far shore . |
| 7 | Denis Irwin chipped a nice ball to Steve Staunton on the left wing and Aldridge got on the end of a fiercely-driven centre . |
| 8 | More arresting are readings which note the inescapable presence of the Christian religion in the ambient of the tale , embodied in the church — to which Alison goes on the " " haliday " " and where Absolon " " gooth with a sencer " " , or where the " " freres in the chauncel gonne synge " " — and in the Bible : echoes of the Song of Solomon in the descriptions of Alison and Absolon , and in Absolon 's love song ( 3698 – 707 ) . |
| 9 | Suddenly , it seemed , the war was over at last , and Churchill announced on the wireless that 8 May would be Victory in Europe Day . |
| 10 | In the following year the duc de Richelieu , the French chief minister , sent an agent to Switzerland , Germany and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to report on the press there and the possibility of France influencing it in her favour . |
| 11 | DARLINGTON 'S Mayor Rita Fishwick and Tory councillor Paul Geldart passed on the thanks of the Scottish Sports Association for the Disabled to the town 's Dolphin Centre yesterday . |
| 12 | Oldham 's superiority was not confirmed until the 80th minute when Sharp completed his first treble since his summer move from Everton : Chamberlain blocked Ritchie 's effort , and the Scot pounced on the rebound . |
| 13 | United showed more appetite for the game and should have gone in front after nine minutes when Ferguson got on the end of Clark 's free-kick . |
| 14 | Jim lived on the edge between life and death , he straddled the fence , and his balls hurt . |
| 15 | Have Severn Trent got on the bandwagon yet , for tidying up the water in Brussels . |
| 16 | Taking a broader perspective , Mira remarks on the situation at large . |
| 17 | Tsu Ma drew on the cheroot again , then looked up , meeting his eyes . |
| 18 | So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon , and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony . |
| 19 | Sophie concentrated on the sweetness of the apple and by the time she had gathered drops of juice along her tongue , Lori was below her , lying on the turf and crying because she had fallen in the near-dark . |
| 20 | Relieved that she had not betrayed her real feelings , Sophie concentrated on the morning surgery , which , however , was not very busy . |
| 21 | The E C C rather inward looking Even Turkey is knocking on the door , what are your Poland , Hungary , Romania knocking on the door and coming in . |
| 22 | White House chief of staff John Sununu objected on the grounds that a reduction in gas emissions would freeze US economic growth . |
| 23 | The La lies on the watershed of the main Karakoram and although we were still politically in India , geographically we had reached the valleys of Central Asia . |
| 24 | Jezrael stopped on the top step , yawning and stretching , one hand flung up to shield her face against the cold hard radiance . |
| 25 | Teller did not succeed in attracting more than a handful of Oppenheimer 's brilliant team back to Los Alamos to work on the H-bomb . |
| 26 | Patrick concentrated on the foul tea . |
| 27 | Michael Hatfield , 47 , of Grove Hill , was killed when his Ford Sierra crashed on the A683 . |
| 28 | Quadraphony had arrived , and Edward Greenfield reported on the first issues . |
| 29 | The Federation of Malaysia , consisting of the 11 states of Peninsular Malaysia and the two states of Sarawak and Sabah situated on the northern coast of the island of Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , is an independent member of the Commonwealth and a parliamentary monarchy . |
| 30 | The Federation of Malaysia , consisting of the 11 states of Peninsular Malaysia and the two states of Sarawak and Sabah situated on the northern coast of the island of Kalimantan ( Borneo ) , is a parliamentary monarchy . |