Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some mountain farmers were looking more and more to tourism to provide the extra income necessary to allow them to continue living on their farms . |
| 2 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 3 | The council wrote to warn infringing traders some of whom ceased to trade on Sundays as a result of the warnings . |
| 4 | Everyone has jumped on the bus without paying and now the whole transport system is going under . |
| 5 | ‘ Everyone has remarked on how I have slimmed in all the right places . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe my connection with them has rebounded on Sheffield United . |
| 7 | The elegance of the woman 's appearance , her hoop ear-rings , is carefully realized , but the couple stare out of the canvas blankly , nothing has registered on their faces , neither pain nor passion , and Modigliani remains detached , if faintly amused , by their front of respectability . |
| 8 | And everyone tried to climb on the bandwagon . |
| 9 | I became hooked on adventure stories by R.L. Stevenson , Ballantyne , Rider Haggard and many more . |
| 10 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 11 | Yeah , I jus I skidded to stop on the back end of it . |
| 12 | I mean come on it 's the same ball game . |
| 13 | Yeah I know it 's easier no you must feel really gutted , I mean I would I know , because as you said , you going out for ten months yeah exactly , yeah , exactly I mean come on you really liked him fancied him loved him oh wow , I said love , love love , I do n't know love hey man yeah yeah it 's probably , you know like when you dumped him for Danny it 's just probably like that yeah exactly exactly , so do n't worry oh come on he ca n't give up ten months for nothing I know it has to end someday , but it does n't I mean it 's like everyone thinks like that , it really annoys me , everybody , right who 's about our age yeah , they just go out with someone knowing that one day it 's gon na end , they 're just waiting for the day , and that you know , you should go out with someone with the intentions of being with them forever I know that sounds pathetic , but it 's true , yeah I know , yeah exactly yeah , yeah I know , why do you think I said it ? |
| 14 | The only other comment I had in terms of the scale of settlement , which I think is just touching upon the next point , is that , I mean depending on the conclusions you reach as to the the amount of housing to be provided for in a new settlement , I take the point that Mr Brighton made that you 've got to have a longer term perspective I think that he f that in the ten year period ninety six to two thousand and six that the new settlements to be brought forward during , erm I think it 's really unrealistic to achieve more than twelve fifty , fourteen hundred houses in that period , if you say reach a conclusion there should be two thousand houses in that period in a new settlement , there might be some benefit in having two settlements , each of a capacity of say twelve fifty , f for erm twelve fifty to fifteen hundred that can have capacity for the next plan period , and in other words to assist in meeting the constraints that exist on York that are likely to exist into the future . |
| 15 | I mean look , and even so I mean depending on where it 's gon na be |
| 16 | By ‘ symphonically conceived ’ I mean relying on large-scale musical argument rather than on imagery derived from what the Germans call ‘ applied music ’ , angewandte Musik ( for stage , film , circus , etc. ) and by extension , not dependent on overt reference to contemporary events . |
| 17 | At dusk the H.50 's captain , Lieutenant-Commander Mervyn Wingfield , signalled the Worcester 's captain , Lieutenant-Commander Ian Maitland-Magill-Crichton , ‘ In the event of enemy attack I intend to remain on surface . ’ |
| 18 | I intend to concentrate on provision for the 18 per cent unstatemented pupils who remain in mainstream schools but who , as Warnock reminded us , have special needs . |
| 19 | I intend to concentrate on the two subjects of today 's debate , education and employment . |
| 20 | I intend to concentrate on two issues in the Queen 's Speech — the commitment to continue to prepare for the privatisation of the British Railways Board and the commitment to introduce a new council tax and to establish a review of local government structure in England . |
| 21 | Because of time , I intend to concentrate on the European dimension . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's all a matter of survival , and right now I intend to concentrate on surviving this disaster . |
| 23 | In this section I intend to focus on the way four of these problems have become interlinked , namely those of underachievement , the concern over indiscipline , and the need for social integration and the employability of particular groups . |
| 24 | Such an alternator would be of great use in a motorcaravan conversion I intend doing on a V8 Land Rover . |
| 25 | Do I prefer working on my own or as part of a team ? |
| 26 | Here are some of the weekly incomes and budgets of some of the people I met living on social security : One man and woman in their early twenties living in Coventry with one child , mostly unemployed since leaving school , have a total income of £5.25 child benefit . |
| 27 | But the contract I agreed to sign on behalf of Jean-Claude was a very different one from the one M. Chaillot had intended me to sign . |
| 28 | I failed to turn on the light when the sky grew dark and heavy . |
| 29 | But at a fundamental level there 's really little difference between you and I struggling to count on our fingers , and the most modern and sophisticated piece of computing wizardry . |
| 30 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |