Example sentences of "on [noun] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking after the customer is , therefore , very important ; a lot depends on building and maintaining a good relationship with your customers . |
| 2 | Tramway No. 20 of the 1902 Act , entirely within the Borough , they insisted on building and owning themselves . |
| 3 | £2 million was spent on building and equipping the component repair facility for Rolls Wood Group at Kirkhill in Dyce . |
| 4 | In the late 1930s , when he still could not persuade engineers that his FM system would work , he proved they were wrong by spending $2 million of his own money on building and running an FM radio station . |
| 5 | I 've been to the natural childbirth classes in Muswell Hill , I 've sat on sag-bags and chanted ‘ Ommmmmm ’ with the best of them . |
| 6 | Jennings turned his faintly blue eyes on Patrick and stared at him blandly . |
| 7 | They may , therefore , only be marginally concerned with the effect that the examination they set has on teaching and learning in primary schools . |
| 8 | She says she believes women can support each other equally strongly , with more positive aims in mind ; ‘ Women do unite together on projects and support each other — the fact that feminism survives , and the existence of projects like Spare Rib , show how well women work together . ’ |
| 9 | They created a duty of care imposed on builders and owed to foreseeable victims of their negligence . |
| 10 | When the missile nears its target , it stops relying on radar and turns on a more acute guidance system . |
| 11 | Mossadeq was put on trial and blamed a British plot for his own downfall . |
| 12 | By Sept. 13 , 69 soldiers had been put on trial and executed for their part in the coup attempt [ see pp. 37700 ; 37810 ] . |
| 13 | ‘ Do we really want him on trial and talking about his past secret relationships ? ’ |
| 14 | Their contact with war was to sit in the dining room of the Hay Adams Hotel , or the Petroleum Club in Dallas , or by their own swimming pools , sipping on cocktails and going through lists of guns and launchers and grenades . |
| 15 | Selous went on bird-watching and writing nearly to the end of his life and died at home in Weymouth 25 March 1934 . |
| 16 | Well , I suppose the Old Harry Rocks do bear a slight resemblance to the Needles , but I forgave him when I went up on deck and saw that Vigilant 's motor boat was following the yacht into Poole and had confirmed our proper position with Southampton . |
| 17 | Traditionally every hornpipe begins as the sailors come on deck and dance figures-of-eight round the bollards before setting to work . |
| 18 | I helped myself , and when I had finished , I went up on deck and began sorting out the rigging . |
| 19 | Rebecca had silk slippers on her feet , with the device that the King had granted the Everards embroidered on them : it had amused her , during the serene days between squalls on the voyage from Plymouth , to sit on deck and stitch the image of the seamonster harnessed by the naked man , halfway up to his waist in water , while natives in feather skirts cavorted on the shore behind . |
| 20 | Blood dripping , he raced back on deck and leaped ashore . |
| 21 | The man then had to drop down on deck and arrange the boxes more carefully . |
| 22 | Refreshed , I went up on deck and looked at the waves . |
| 23 | I want to lie with you on deck and screw beneath the stars . |
| 24 | He had seen ‘ the old man ’ on deck and had cheered him , with the other sailors . |
| 25 | Tasman , with the face and physique of a circus strong man , brought his largest parang on deck and glowered warily at the passing island . |
| 26 | A year ago she 'd have been able to race him out to the ketch , maybe even climbed on deck and dived off … |
| 27 | By 1 p.m. we had another forty-five sheep on deck and decided to call it a day . |
| 28 | ‘ Get down on deck and have the machine guns uncovered and lay down support fire . ’ |
| 29 | Pieda , a powerful economic group , has attacked him for his crippling levy on whisky and says the excise tax policy on the famous tipple is ‘ against the national interest and discriminates against one of the UK 's top five exporters ’ . |
| 30 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |