Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike GM , the young company had no car-making base to fall back on , so it started afresh . |
| 2 | They are likely to be allowed less freedom to go out on the streets and stay out late . |
| 3 | Encouraging each governor to adopt a class and giving them an opportunity to report back on their visits helps governors to have a sense of purpose and enables them to frame general reports and LEA/DES regulations in the context of their adopted classes and children . |
| 4 | Then follows more hearsay evidence , and the trail peters out on a question mark . |
| 5 | Clint : ‘ I think each existence rubs off on the other . |
| 6 | The first is a request for the pleasure of their company while the second implies slight patronage , and highlights their inability to go out on their own and their need now to be ‘ taken ’ . |
| 7 | She made the decision to go out on her own because she wanted more freedom to pursue her many interests . |
| 8 | Tensions ahead of the referendum boiled over on Aug. 17 . |
| 9 | But as far as this security expert is concerned , unless Oxford University tightens up on security , and fast , more of its treasures will inevitably be stolen . |
| 10 | Perhaps er , you see , Sundays some er ta er er , every runner goes out on a Sunday . |
| 11 | This does involve a lot of money laid out on different colours and a lot of time to build up a collection . |
| 12 | Came a day when the man revealed that he had kept an exact account of all the money laid out on him , and could now , in his unexpectedly good situation in life , Pay every penny back to his benefactor . |
| 13 | Putting down her cup , she reached for the silk robe laid out on a chair at the side of the bed . |
| 14 | Dustin , with darkened eyebrows , oily black hair smoothed down on either side of a central parting , dark sunglasses and Italian gestures , wastes much of his talent in this frenzied , intermittently funny satire on Italian customs . |
| 15 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 16 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 17 | Blood-sugar level goes up on the digestion of food . |
| 18 | In what other job might you call in and use a hot air balloon to appear over a city on a publicity stunt and that same afternoon sit in on a seminar which you have arranged as a scientific event ? |
| 19 | BASEBALL BAT BRUTE SPACED out on drink and drugs , Paul used the bat pictured above to bludgeon John to death |
| 20 | you , if there 's any money to come back on that |
| 21 | My tranquillity was rudely interrupted as a wave crashed down on the rocks and sent a shower of spray over us as we huddled amongst the rocks on the headland . |
| 22 | At that moment , a 30-foot wave crashed down on her . |
| 23 | Branches clawed at her hair and she felt like she had done years ago , waiting for Jezrael to catch up , knowing she was going to be late for school , but she could n't leave her sister to struggle in on her own . |
| 24 | By way of reply , Strawson can of course fall back on his belief that this is not true of our commitment to reactive attitudes because it is part of ‘ the general framework of human life ’ , which can not be given up . |
| 25 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 26 | A split-half reliability carried out on the data from children in the standardisation sample between the ages of 4 years and 8 years 11 months produced correlations of between 0.64 and 0.84 for the different items . |
| 27 | Knowsley home in on Vase |
| 28 | Wilcock looks back on it as a ‘ very heavy issue ’ . |
| 29 | I thought you did n't like your German , are you a bit picked up on that then ? |
| 30 | Hewlett-Packard Co moved in on Compaq Computer Corp yesterday , making its entry into the iAPX-86-based server business . |