Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual DNA molecules I received from my parents are not passed to my children : replicas of them are passed on . |
| 2 | So I seek the authority of Jesus ; and I am led on by him to see the authority of the Bible . |
| 3 | I 'm turned on by the thought of making love to women . |
| 4 | That 's one thing I 'm fixed on . |
| 5 | But there are things that we 're not avail er , we 're not aware of and I 'm looked on as something of an expert , so God help those people who come and ask me er , what there is , what forms they should use and what is available on the , in the organization , if I 'm looked upon as an expert . |
| 6 | And I 'm carried on the tide |
| 7 | So really I 'm stymied on that are n't I ? |
| 8 | do not be alarmed if you are passed on from your initial solicitor ( perhaps the one who did your house conveyancing ) to another . |
| 9 | BELVILLE : Let me see how you are come on in your writing . |
| 10 | Then also , he also gave me I mean I got hundred percent mortgage which you are allowed on , I mean the law says er t the chance to buy so therefore you do n't have to have a deposit . |
| 11 | Occasionally , this may be foreseen even at the start of your employment : for example , if your position is subject to funding from an outside source or if you are taken on to supervise a particular contract , as may happen in the engineering and construction fields amongst others . |
| 12 | IT 'S the sort of thing you 're called on to do all the time . |
| 13 | ‘ If you 're forced to live on benefits you 're thrown on to such a low level that you ca n't dress properly for interviews or even afford the travel involved . |
| 14 | Sunday night rounds the event off with a bizarre juxtaposing of gigs : downstairs in the main hall it 's Mayhem Central , where the venue 's somewhat implausible design means that unless you 're stuffed on to the raised dancefloor you can see bugger all of the bands . |
| 15 | You 're switched on ! |
| 16 | You 're clicked on and I 'm going in behind you . |
| 17 | Sophie 's , Kosta , Steriotis , Avra , Aspasia and Feredinos are ‘ B ’ houses , allocated mainly according to which activity you 're booked on . |
| 18 | We are spurred on by advertising images that fun is for the young and fit . |
| 19 | We are carried on feathers . |
| 20 | Certainly we 're called on to make a large number of personal appearances , frequently for worthy causes . |
| 21 | See there 's some difference if we go and say what is a receptionist 's key task all the jobs that we do at work probably only two , three , four of them are actually what we 're paid to do , cos they 're the results we 're measured on . |
| 22 | The question now is whether they will all be penalised as a result of collective inaccuracy , or if a convincing explanation will be found to persuade clients , both political and commercial , that surveys are worth the paper they are printed on . |
| 23 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 24 | There are other accessories you can use to increase the impact of the picture , including cords , tassels and ribbons that could be added to pictures when they are hung on the wall . |
| 25 | Empty cans and bottles litter the turf and make crunching sounds like oyster shells when they are stepped on . |
| 26 | The only difference will be the degree of E minor which they are built on . |
| 27 | An important implication of this , in the context of attempts which may be made to encourage Denmark to change her mind , is that assurances and comforting words which are not directly part of the Treaty are unlikely to be worth the paper they are written on , or the microphone they are spoken from , so far as the emerging European law is concerned . |
| 28 | Seven or eight times out of ten , this is the phenomenon which greets those in the deliverance ministry when they are called on for help . |
| 29 | Transgenic mice provide a particularly powerful way of studying how genes affect development and how they are turned on and off . |
| 30 | They are held on by recessed bolts and wing-nuts , and are easily removed . |