Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [conj] [noun] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think that Bungay qualifies on that grounds . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , I think when Charles starts on me , I lapse into a sort of prayer . |
| 3 | That 's it yeah , and erm I was erm Wally and Gordon and he thinks there 's another couple you see , so I said well , you know , and I told him about the heater you see and he know , I said when people sitting on their backsides in committee making decisions , I said , you know , I said it just makes me bloody well annoyed , he said I know he said they do n't , they , they make the decisions and , but they do n't do the nitty gritty , they you know |
| 4 | I suspected that Kim sitting on his lap like that had perked him up no end . |
| 5 | ‘ Did you know that life began on earth when lightning struck the sea ? |
| 6 | Please could you ensure that cheques drawn on the above account are returned to me after they have been cashed . |
| 7 | and you know that Jim recorded on one of his cassettes some programmes for Martin |
| 8 | JIM ; No silly I 'm talking about that Council Tax you know that people living on their own are entitled to 25% off the bills . |
| 9 | it create more problems o you know cos people stand on it and |
| 10 | ‘ I 've had such a lovely time , ’ she said as Ethel fell on her in ecstasy , ‘ and Ethel 's lick is much more efficient than cleansing cream . ’ |
| 11 | In jargon , we say that effects depend on causes continuously . |
| 12 | The point about these last two demonstrations is that they emphasise that spinning depends on stalling and keeping the aircraft stalled . |
| 13 | ‘ Scientists achieve nuclear fusion ’ , ‘ US triumph in race to tame nuclear fusion ’ , they said when Princeton turned on its large new experiment ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 8 ) . |
| 14 | Once in Siberia he realized that estimates made on paper in Moscow for the dispatch of 250 wagons a day to the Volga were completely unrealistic . |
| 15 | He stopped where Tallis stood on the wall . |
| 16 | He added that demands placed on teachers by the national curriculum often meant there was not enough time for cycling lessons , but many of the town 's primary schools were involved . |
| 17 | He may have owed his entry into royal service to Robert de Tibetot ( or Tiptoft ) [ q.v. ] , whom he represented when Robert went on crusade with the future Edward I in 1270 . |
| 18 | It helps that Preston relies on the musical conviction of his playing and his impeccable technique to get his message across ; thankfully we are spared any of the acts of registrative trickery , especially in the C major Toccata , which lesser organists so often impose on the music in a feeble attempt to inject artificial stimulants into their performances . |
| 19 | He suggested that government controls on the economy be retained after the war to prevent the boom-slump pattern of the years after 1918 occurring again . |