Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STUART RIPLEY could hardly wait to get back on the Ayresome Park pitch but , once there , was glad to get off again , writes David Alexander . |
| 2 | This Spotlight reports on a survey of 94 adults ( defined as people aged 20 or over ) who fell into this category and looks at what — if anything — providers might do to pick up on the original expression of interest . |
| 3 | ‘ No , I 'd expected it ; he would n't want to start off on the wrong foot . ’ |
| 4 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |
| 5 | Thus , we would have to fall back on the anthropic principle to explain why the electron has the mass and charge that it does . |
| 6 | The broader track from the Horse Fair was better for riding ; he would not have to pass by on the narrow path where he had stumbled over Aldhelm 's body . |
| 7 | They may also have missed out on the crucial period of sociability , relatively early in life , when dogs learn about their wider environment . |
| 8 | ‘ My , but we must have got up on the right side of the interrogation cell this morning . ’ |
| 9 | So the more frozen in horror a human being is , the more likely the cat is to leap up and try to settle down on the static lap . |
| 10 | The artist 's widow did not think it appropriate that the work should have ended up on the commercial circuit and has therefore refused to sign the document . |
| 11 | All UI members — including SunSoft — will have to sign off on the new document , now in draft form , before it can be published . |
| 12 | ‘ If we do not act then thousands more will come floating in on the early spring tides , maybe tens of thousands , even hundreds , and they will bring chaos and suffering on a scale far larger than anything we have seen so far , ’ he warned . |