Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There they are sorted and put back on the vehicles and re-delivered so that the franchisees can deliver them first thing in the morning . ’ |
| 2 | We were living in a period of change and he wanted to avoid the danger of rejecting courses of action merely because they had been considered and turned down on some earlier occasion during his leadership . |
| 3 | Clarify and summarise what 's been said and pick up on points in stories : ‘ And then ? ’ |
| 4 | The tendency in the past has been to restrict or cut down on plant proteins and increase animal protein in the diet . |
| 5 | The technical process by which items are selected and tried out on a large group of children is referred to as the process of standardisation and the group of children is referred to as the standardisation sample . |
| 6 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 7 | These foods will make up the calories they are losing when cutting down on their saturated fat intake . |
| 8 | The court may order the whole or part of any pleading to be amended or struck out on the ground that ( a ) it discloses no reasonable cause of action or defence , or ( b ) it is scandalous , frivolous or vexatious , or ( c ) it may prejudice , embarrass or delay the fair trial , or ( d ) it is otherwise an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 9 | This means that a large number of gliders will be rigged and brought out on the airfield . |
| 10 | Gatting 's Faisalabad outburst is interpreted with a certain amount of knowing understanding , but Lillee , the Chappells , Lloyd , Holding , Croft , Richards , Greig and Miandad join him and many others in a category which should be cringeing when thinking back on some of its unsavoury behaviour . |
| 11 | The Gulf War , like a knife , cut the string , and the beads are dropping and bouncing around on the ground . |
| 12 | The names of the gold winners were not known until the judges ' scores , which had been sealed , were opened and added up on the night . |
| 13 | Many young people like myself who were born and grew up on the flat albeit slightly rolling prairies , sometimes feel a yearning for the mountains and the sea , and I was no exception . |
| 14 | Yates is still struggling to recover from a serious knee operation that cost him his place as County were relegated and missed out on a lucrative ticket to the Premier League . |
| 15 | The day 's attacks resulted in one Wellington being hit and burnt out on the ground at Luqa , while three Beaufighters were damaged . |
| 16 | Sub-contracting works fine most of the time but if you want something done urgently and the typesetter is broken or tied up on a job for its owner then guess who 's work is going to have to wait . |
| 17 | It is argued that to speak out on this subject is only to suggest the very evil you want to cure , and to do more harm than good … |
| 18 | An article in the February/March 1992 issue describes the technique of ‘ breadboarding ’ where all components are assembled and screwed down on a thick board and straight lines around the board . |
| 19 | There was a swift flow of air through the room , and whatever it was moved and sat down on the chair . |
| 20 | I did as I was told and flopped down on a chair , but it gradually got worse and worse , and I felt as if I was going to be sick . |
| 21 | The 44-year-old director was born and brought up on a ranch in California , before attending military school and a spell in the Marines . |