Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] something on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean that 's our — we design books , and we design journals , and we set up and we take on new journals and can we ever extract any copy from the editorial board — we know it 's going to be about Plant Sciences , but no idea what length of headline and how much technical gump is going to go into it , or we take something on |
| 2 | So A is suggesting that someone do something on Thursday . |
| 3 | Nicklaus , sensing that she had something on her mind , offered an encouraging , ‘ Do n't be afraid to speak up ! ’ |
| 4 | Not for sustenance , but so that she had something on which to focus her attention while she thought about her response to him . |
| 5 | Oh you can keep going though totally over the top I thought well Joseph 's was twelve ninety nine and Ben 's was fourteen nineteen ninety nine and that 's just tough that I 've got you know , I ca n't get Charlotte 's any cheaper than that , but , I mean they 're not gon na know how much I 've , they 're not gon na say well you 've got five pound more than what I have cos they 're not of that age so , that 's how I 've left it , that 's what I 'm gon na do , I 'll get her the circus and then they can swap them over and Joseph will be happy that he got something on wheels |
| 6 | She had the impression that he had something on his mind and was uncertain whether or not he should speak of it . |
| 7 | Now evidence shows that it 's more than the fact that he has something on his mind to distract him from sex — it 's an actual physical phenomenon . |
| 8 | So er to get to your question erm I 've sort of not been doing anything erm I was hoping that I would be sort of fully fit round about now and then if I saw something on teletext er that was good I 'd just buzz off for a week or so . |
| 9 | If I get something on one of them to s to look as though I 've |
| 10 | erm There 's a kind of assumption that if something , if somebody does something on a Sunday afternoon , for lack of better , something better to do or because it 's raining and golf is therefore , therefore off , that he therefore does it in a truer , sincerer way than a man who might be doing it as his career , for his income , to keep his family alive and so on . |
| 11 | Watching every movement , and she put him on and put his blanket on the ground and he was laying there in his handful of this and so she said come to me then and she put something on the floor she said well you know you go to it , I ai n't gon na give it to you and he 's she said well no , you 've got ta try ! |
| 12 | But these days she was stepping way out of line , coming on like she had something on him , like she was something more than a two-bit secretary . |
| 13 | MOTHER had a wonderful phrase if she felt something on That Was The Week That Was was too outspoken or perhaps a little too daring . |
| 14 | Madame Gebrec 's face became serious ; she took a sip of water , put down her glass and fiddled with the stem as if she had something on her mind . |
| 15 | IF YOU DROP SOMETHING ON THE LINE , DO NOT JUMP DOWN AND GET IT . |
| 16 | If we see something on the side of the road , and we think the horse may shy at it , and we look at it very hard and carefully , the horse tends to be less likely to shy . |
| 17 | It was like he had something on his mind the whole time . ’ |
| 18 | as if he had something on his mind . |
| 19 | She looked at him thoughtfully , wondering if he had something on his mind . |
| 20 | If he chucks something on the ground he 'll pick it up and give it to me and he 'll do it all the more . |
| 21 | In his line of business you do n't get to be forty unless you have something on the ball . |
| 22 | No I want another half because I want something on the other one . |
| 23 | One evening , when the pain of her laboured breathing had become very bad , she lay watching Comfort as she sketched something on a big white pad . |
| 24 | He knelt easily , powerful arms moving smoothly with the paddle , his face , in profile to her as he studied something on shore , rugged and uncaring . |