Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stood up this Kenneth went on a blind date |
| 2 | It 's all enough to make one feel quite patriotic and forgive and forget the years of Allegros , Marinas and Princesses that British Leyland foisted on a wretched , unsuspecting British public . |
| 3 | In his first address to the nation as Prime Minister on June 22 Rao concentrated on the country 's economy , which he said was in a state of crisis . |
| 4 | Sixteen year old Francesca worked on the project . |
| 5 | Some AEs cheat on the internal exam , and the author knows of one SAE working at DPR whose girlfriend , an AE there , obtained the question papers for him in advance . |
| 6 | At 9.30 Titcombe knocked on the farmer 's door . |
| 7 | Yes and if that bloody Karen comes on the scene and wants to take him back I shall tell her , if you go back Paul |
| 8 | After Liverpool pulled level the non-stop Earle pounced on a Fashanu knock-down to score the winner . |
| 9 | Anti-government guerrilla activity from early November centred on the hinterland of Tadjoura and Obock — both coastal towns of about 10,000 inhabitants north of the capital . |
| 10 | The NAC meeting of 7 November called on the Communist Party to give guarantees of non-interference in ILP affairs as a condition for continuing the United Front . |
| 11 | OUTGUNNED Muslim forces fought off Serb and Croat attacks on two fronts yesterday as Bosnian Serbs voted on an international peace plan they seem certain to reject . |
| 12 | As a footnote , when Jack Wannan was posted to Coningsby in 1953 to join 57 Squadron which had re-equipped with Canberras , where were only about three Washingtons left on the Station . |
| 13 | What is clear is that the degree to which the reformers achieved their stated aims was muted first of all by a partial backtracking on policy after 1947 under the pressures of worsening relations between the United States and the Soviet Union , and the burden which an economically prostrate Japan placed on the US taxpayer . |
| 14 | Despite the ministrations of the Mine Surgeon poor Sarah died on the 13 June , and after this date none of the Duke girls appear to have worked on the mine again . |
| 15 | Why was he ( and it must have been him ) so quick in sending off horsemen early on the morning of 19th March to check on the King 's safety ? |
| 16 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 June 1992 W. appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the High Court had no jurisdiction , or alternatively no jurisdiction should be exercised , to overrule the refusal of a competent minor aged 16 to undergo medical treatment ; ( 2 ) section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 should have been applied ; ( 3 ) the judge had erred in applying observations of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 which were erroneous ; ( 4 ) the judge had wrongly found that in respect of the Children Act 1989 the minor 's right of refusal was limited to the stage of assessment ; and ( 5 ) the judge had failed to have sufficient regard to the medical evidence against transferring W. , to the advantages of not moving her and to her wishes and his decision was plainly wrong . |
| 17 | Indeed , we see little of their grandeur from the line itself as we cross the Wharncliffe Viaduct on the Great Western Railway , or the beautiful bridge over the Thames at Maidenhead , and plunge into the Classical-Renaissance portal of Box Tunnel ; or as we traverse the great Tring cutting on the old London and North Western . |
| 18 | NEARLY 50 Amnesty members from at least 15 local groups across London joined forces on Saturday 17 October to go on an ‘ embassy crawl ’ in support of the indigenous peoples campaign . |
| 19 | In 1899 Watson came on a second tour and this time went to the far west . |
| 20 | In 1952 Degenhart collaborated on an exhibition of contemporary Italian drawings and he is proud to have known personally Carrà , Manzú , Marini , Balla and Severini . |
| 21 | ‘ All Europe stands on a threshold — and we Europeans now have to make a choice . |
| 22 | In an appeal on June 11 Iran called on the UN to protect between 500,000 and 900,000 Shias who were reportedly trapped in the marshes of southern Iraq surrounded by 100,000 Iraqi troops and airborne units [ see pp. 38081-82 ; 38211 ] . |
| 23 | Some prostitutes in ancient Greece hit on a novel way of plying their trade . |
| 24 | I noticed there were two late Chagalls up on the wall , evidently from his Parisian or American period … along with some fairly large gouaches . |
| 25 | She thought of Tony , back in Manchester , big , blond Tony working on the buses to get some cash together , looking after the bedsit and the cat , writing her long letters . |
| 26 | The latter set out the conditions under which Croatia would be prepared to participate in a remodelled Yugoslavia based on an association of those sovereign states . |
| 27 | Another marked contrast between Welsh and English practice is in regard to provision stemming from the recommendations of the 1975 and 1978 Haycocks Reports on the training of full-time and part-time teachers of further education respectively . |
| 28 | At one point we read Pip 's story and what actually happens to him that day and then the older Pip reflects on the younger Pip 's actions . |
| 29 | I was in the middle of my favourite dream , standing in the dungeons , sipping a cup of claret whilst masked torturers had Fat Henry spreadeagled on the cruellest rack . |
| 30 | This flight became another ‘ first ’ for Sugar , as it was the first Lancaster to land on an ‘ enemy ’ airfield ! |