Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [pron] [vb -s] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know whether he lives on campus or in the village . |
| 2 | One can never be defeated if one stands on a matter of morality . ’ |
| 3 | I tell him — since this critic has n't liked anything he 's seen for about twenty years — ; it does n't matter if he comes on a wet Wednesday with no R in the month and a tram strike . |
| 4 | It can be done before it appears on the air , either in a private room or in a theatre , to a large or small audience ; it can be done after it has appeared by personal interview or ( as frequently in the USA ) by telephone . |
| 5 | The silver water shatters under her feet , the child bounces as he rides on her breast , and she no longer hears Sycorax , only the pulse of the sea as it breaks in frills on the smooth and shiny sand , the splash of her stride and the drumming of her heart as she makes for the forest to the north , her back turned to the bay where the English ship rides at anchor , where the sea battle will take place . |
| 6 | A kite that climbs , then seems to slip sideways , twitching until it crashes on its side , needs to have a bowstring across the tips of its cross-spar or spreader . |
| 7 | Vic sighs , hits the Off button on the clock , switches on his bedside lamp ( its dimmer control turned low for Marjorie 's sake ) , gets out of bed and paddles through the deep pile of the bedroom carpet to the en suite bathroom , making sure the connecting door is closed before he turns on the light inside . |
| 8 | This is how the new Thorp two seat trainer will really look when it goes on sale in the UK in a few weeks ' time . |
| 9 | It perceives the full complexity of the protection task , encroaching as it does on private family territory with an uncertain knowledge base and poor predictive instruments ; and it deplores the hostile climate in which such delicate work must be carried through . |
| 10 | But such speculation is very difficult to predict as it depends on often highly volatile expectations . |
| 11 | This may sound complicated but the argument is very similar to that which Victor Turner employs when he comments on the liminality , or " betwixt and between " status , of persons who are engaged in any ritual process . " |
| 12 | Make a few test recordings before you start the session in earnest in order to get used to the set-up and to check that the wording sounds as good when spoken as it looks on the page . |
| 13 | Le Cheval de Troie , focusing as it does on the street confrontation between communism and fascism , is evidently a fictional distillation of these events viewed from the vantage-point of Moscow . |
| 14 | Go on , Jungle , it 's Sunday , knock it off , you want to shout as it rattles on 24 hrs per day . |
| 15 | I glance into my glass and hand her back the J ; her eyes close as she draws on it and I put my lips to my glass , slipping that sucked-on sliver of ice into my own mouth and rolling it around there , pretending it 's her tongue . |
| 16 | Steven Spielberg 's much hyped dinosaur movie dubbed ’ Jaws with Claws ’ is expected to be a huge box office hit when it goes on general release this week . |
| 17 | At first , 's uncertainty principle might lead one to suppose that high-resolution is sacrificed if one works on such short timescales . |
| 18 | If the patient 's foot tends to twist as he stands on it , he may be given a special ankle support to help hold it comfortably in position . |
| 19 | they 've got a girl that works there right and her name her name is Linda and they run this big machine and it 's really long and he said if she 's at the top machine he ca n't see down the other end of the machine cos her boobs are in the way and he 's got I said you do n't ask her can sh he said yeah well he said I 've got ta ask her can she move out the way , he said if she sits on the table her boobs are resting on the table , I said oh I 'd crack up . |
| 20 | We can not blame him for this — he has his career to think of — but we must protest when he puts on his most earnest face and lectures the other two parties . |
| 21 | Dinosaur size is a vitally important subject , bearing as it does on the controversy concerning metabolism and the generation and conduction of heat , and hence on the susceptibility or otherwise to changes in climate . |
| 22 | ‘ A good governor does as he pleases on his world , just so long as he pays his tithes in treasure and people . |
| 23 | Thus denote the firm 's security level profit by , the profit level under the agreement by , and the maximum profit the firm can earn when it reneges on the agreement in a single period by . |
| 24 | The bulletin is unique among national galleries of art and is highly regarded , drawing as it does on the long standing interdisciplinary tradition of London 's National Gallery . |
| 25 | Is the HMI 's interpretation , resting as it does on the claim that teachers ' possession of knowledge and expertise provides the basis for their classroom confidence , the only possible one ? |
| 26 | Such a belief , resting as it does on vast assumptions about the nature of state power , is fraught with great risks and disappointments . |
| 27 | The third model — the democratic — is much the most difficult to achieve : it is also the most radical , resting as it does on the direct involvement of clients in the planning , management and provision of services . |
| 28 | The importance of the protestant variant should not be underestimated given the extent of religious practice and the power of religious men within the protestant — loyalist bloc and the grave importance of conceiving of one 's position as absolutely irreproachable , depending as it does on a divine source . |
| 29 | To say that the patient can not demand to be stabbed because he can not suspend the operation of the criminal law and absolve the other of liability begs the question , depending as it does on a determination of what the criminal law is . |
| 30 | Its quality , in terms of amenities and physical condition , has been found to be generally poorer than that of other rural rented accommodation , which itself is often poor ( Fletcher 1969 ) , and it can be very variable , depending as it does on the individual farmer 's upkeep . |