Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Actually , I happen to have-a flask of Scotch on me , just in case I broke down on the road … |
| 2 | I mean , I 'd had the feeling before , a bit , the first couple of times I went up on the End , it was that much closer to the spindle . |
| 3 | Well now , during this twelve months I went out on the beats etcetera , I just merely picked it up , if I was in doubt about anything my sergeant would put me right and the atmosphere , the amount of discipline was quite severe , for instance , I always , we had always to parade at least ten minutes before the hour to be acquainted with what had happened since we were last on duty . |
| 4 | Charles remembered from working on The Strutters with him that George had always had an approximate approach to the text , relying , as did so many television actors , on a sort of paraphrase of the speeches which homed in on the right cue . |
| 5 | Karl is a serious musician who missed out on the nihilism of the Seventies punk and largely retained Sixties hippy values . |
| 6 | We hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , we must get it to you as soon as possible . |
| 7 | As you will appreciate we hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , I would like to supply it as soon as possible . |
| 8 | As you will appreciate we hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , we ought to try to supply it as soon as possible . |
| 9 | We hope to be collecting feedback on any research you carry out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months , and if you are to have time to work with it , we ought to try to supply it as soon as possible . |
| 10 | ‘ Real people — Real problems — a human document ’ declared the poster for There Ai n't No Justice ( 1939 ) , about a boxer who walks out on the crooked world of the professional fighter . |
| 11 | Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse . |
| 12 | Feeling rather conspicuous in her towel and bikini , she followed him up to the palatially decorated VIP suite , and into the bathroom — trying not to notice the bedroom they passed through on the way . |
| 13 | With a heavy sigh she lay back on the pile of beach cushions , closing her eyes against the early-morning sun , already climbing high in the sky . |
| 14 | I 've encountered Arena -reading Young Conservatives who get off on The Smiths and Sex Pistols : I knew a girl whose favourite group is The Jam but who claims to be apolitical and whose one great desire in life is a Mercedes . |
| 15 | a rather simple girl who hangs about on the outskirts of a village … |
| 16 | No , just the same machine we had over on the other side , aye , it has n't changed at all . |
| 17 | Back at home they lay out on the terrace on the spread quilts and Rufus said he would sleep there . |
| 18 | Just after 0800hrs they swooped down on the closely parked Curtiss P–36s and P–40s . |
| 19 | With a brief laugh he lay back on the bed , closing his eyes . |
| 20 | After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor . |
| 21 | you just like the idea of bacon cooking you picked up on the same idea . |
| 22 | I always had to call out Mr Davidson — the vet who lived out on the Downs — but he 's gone and retired . |
| 23 | To the crews ' embarrassment I stumped up on the bridge wearing the eye patch and the parrot on my shoulder with the added embellishment of an iron hook up the loose sleeve of my coat , to take Venturous alongside in full view of a crowd of holidaymakers lining the pier who , although somewhat mystified , obviously enjoyed the show . |
| 24 | Struck one , breaking the match which fizzed out on the floor . |
| 25 | This was a ground-floor room which bulged out on the side of the house looking towards the big lawn and the stables . |
| 26 | They were sitting as they always did when her father was home , in the large airy dining room which looked out on the stone patio where in the summer clematis bloomed white and purple . |
| 27 | After a moment she came out on the landing and she was dressing . |
| 28 | It reaches us through not only the filtering processes of memory but also the demands of style : and this is particularly obvious in this instance Although his autobiography was never published , the teller of this tale , James Mackenzie , was a professional showman who ended up on the fairground stage . |
| 29 | ‘ You can just see the sea from the nursery , ’ explains Prue , ‘ and if you stand on the loo and look out of that little window you can see all those cloverleaf intersections you drove over on the way in . |
| 30 | Shop and office workers who miss out on the best of the day only have their lunch breaks to enjoy the brief British summer . |