Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb base] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you really want a cigarette very badly I think on the whole I should prefer you to have one , ’ Ivy told him . |
| 2 | ‘ Mostly I concentrate on the aerobics and swimming , both of which are available at this club , which also has snooker tables . |
| 3 | ‘ Haply I think on thee , and then my state , like to the lark at break of day arising from sun and earth , sings hymns at Heaven 's gate : for thy sweet love remember 'd such wealth brings , that then I scorn to change my state with kings . ’ |
| 4 | The foot was too big to get a boot on so I put on two woolly socks and a plastic bag . |
| 5 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 6 | So I put on a coat . |
| 7 | So I put on courses and workshops for various groups involved with health in the district . |
| 8 | So I go on me own |
| 9 | So I go on the same as er , weeks two to four an analysis written , and , or drawn or made of examples on one of these themes . |
| 10 | There is no deck chair for me so I sit on the lawn at Ma 's feet and draw some barley water up the straw , gently so as not to disturb Pa who is reading . |
| 11 | so I tap on the window , had just gone past and I was just about to go in his room , you know , cos he 's standing there and I just tapped on the window come outside Nick had just walked by and Rick and were talking you know it 's not like the dead of night and everything 's quiet |
| 12 | Bob wanted chicken tikka massala and then he said give me the list and wrote down on it two chicken tikka massalas so I look on that and I ca n't see anything two chicken kormas , one and two chicken tikka massalas . |
| 13 | everything basically comes down to numbers , er see , when I was talking to you earlier about about canvassing , right , I said basically you work on key words right now you do n't need you , one , one of the things that I talked to you about canvassing is that if you notice the difference between a good canvass and a bad canvass , at least we did n't in fact activity sort of work to do in it , now if you take a , take a activ activity as being , being a key word and you discuss activity with them , right , you can then look at , at activity right as a variation on activity as there is on to action , right , now sit and do my script and talking to a customer , right , and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and mouthing and saying your bit to a customer , you 've got to sound like a parrot , now I know the way you canvass , the centre of action between you and the cu and the punter , do you see what I mean ? |
| 14 | So you click on this box far left of the title bar , select Edit from the drop down menu and then choose Mark . |
| 15 | So you resign on medical grounds . ’ |
| 16 | So you work on one assignment at a particular time ? |
| 17 | So you have on the one hand , handouts to the rich on the other hand , money taken from the poor . |
| 18 | The less you rely on any drugs , the better for your health in the long run . |
| 19 | That made me realise how much we depend on the prison officers and the fantastic security systems that have been built up . |
| 20 | We realised how much we depend on each other . |
| 21 | So we get on the London and Birmingham route the vast cuttings at Tring ( two and a half miles long and at times nearly sixty feet deep ) and Roade ( one and a half miles long and nearly seventy feet deep ) , and the embankments at Boxmoor and Wolverton . |
| 22 | So we rely on , to a certain degree , on a bit of help from the tenants . |
| 23 | So we start on August 24th . ’ |
| 24 | The foundations of interviewing lie in the mundane observation that individuals can report on what they feel , are , have , tell others about their lives , disclose what their hopes and fears are , offer their opinions , state what they believe in , say what they did last week , how much they spend on food , who they see regularly , and so on ; in short , they can impart masses of information about themselves . |
| 25 | So they practise on the ground . |
| 26 | Together they embark on a perilous ascent . |
| 27 | Together they descend on the area with a daunting array of technology and meticulously start to gather samples of hair , sperm , skin and saliva by torchlight from a chosen patch of grass . |
| 28 | It 's funny but life seems infinitely sweeter ( you 're going over the top now ) ; anyway I thrive on challenges and this is the ultimate one . |
| 29 | take the shops just I put on my thing and |
| 30 | NORMALLY I insist on using the names of people who contact me for help , but in this case I am making an exception . |