Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But let them think on this . |
| 2 | Your chairman was kind enough — before he let me loose on this most patient audience — to say that my attitude , for an historian , was very unhistorical and I took it that that was meant as praise . |
| 3 | Er nothing to report on that . |
| 4 | Everyone agreed on that . |
| 5 | On the glass is drawn the triangle , and also some of the biomorphs whose genetic formulae entitle them to sit on that particular flat plane . |
| 6 | He was warned in advance , but , as a former soldier , felt ‘ God has chosen me to go on this forlorn hope of preaching his Blessed Gospel in his country , and I should discourage those who are coming after me if I should be afraid and fly . ’ |
| 7 | In in the inside so nothing goes on that . |
| 8 | Technological improvements allowed them to capitalize on that wealth in the 1920s . |
| 9 | This element is lacking in another group of cases , where nothing turns on any prior act of the potential defendant but rather on the delivery of the document to the official of the forum state or its publication at some prescribed place . |
| 10 | There is , however , no need for a precise definition of ‘ large ’ since nothing turns on any particular size threshold being crossed . |
| 11 | Nothing turns on this . |
| 12 | Again , nothing turns on this point . |
| 13 | ‘ My boss hinted this afternoon at asking me to work on another case . ’ |
| 14 | Do you want me to comment on that as we go through or |
| 15 | I myself am going to take only a very few minutes that are left to me to comment on some of the points that were raised in the debate . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's really not professional of me to comment on these things . |
| 17 | Right , if there 's , if there 's gon na be , if there 's gon na be looking a bit iffy , if you 'll let me know on any item , and then I 'll get , I 'll , and then I 'll box . |
| 18 | I asked on that occasion for considerably more information . |
| 19 | I lost it in 1963 on the A30 west of Salisbury when I skidded on some diesel oil and rolled over and over . |
| 20 | ‘ Now work out the profit I made on each of the five cars and add up the total . |
| 21 | How can I build on these achievements next time ? |
| 22 | What did I build on this foundation ? |
| 23 | Well they were , they were really dependent on , I mean on each other , they were a unit even though they were two families in a way |
| 24 | I drawed on that . |
| 25 | I do not expect much joy from the Minister tonight , but I give warning that , for the time I remain on these Benches , with the label on which I came here eight and a half years ago — as a Labour Member of Parliament , albeit a Member who has a label beneath his name on the TV as an expelled Labour Member — I shall bring before the House the necessary measures not just to talk about the death of the poll tax but to bury it once and for all . |
| 26 | You have been patient and you have worked hard , and I fear on many occasions late into the night I 'm sure , you have proved adaptable and er you have been good-tempered . |
| 27 | ‘ May I ask , ’ he said , ‘ how you have done so well , since you and I met on those lonely marshes ? ’ |
| 28 | Many Frenchmen whom I met on several occasions at the Training Centre at Achnacarry and on the South Coast of England had also gone , either killed or wounded . |
| 29 | Later , when I consulted on another matter a British doctor who has been in Kampala some thirty years , he stated that he ‘ never advises patients to take mefloquine . |
| 30 | When I insist on that priority , as I can tell you I most certainly will — with the full support of the Prime Minister in doing so — then I 'm sure my colleagues will see the point of that . |