Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right sit up on the chair and we 'll read the story of the jumble sale . |
| 2 | We will fail to understand the significance of terrestrial zodiacs If we merely pick up on the generally insignificant evidence for their physical reality . |
| 3 | For example , the report appears to distinguish between ‘ genotoxic ’ substances , which are mutagenic and directly damage DNA , and ‘ non-genotoxic ’ or ‘ epigenetic ’ substances , which apparently act indirectly on the genome . |
| 4 | But having left till the morning when she was due , I could n't even let Cathy know because it puts her in an awkward position , suddenly turn up on the day . |
| 5 | You 've got , again , a much more stable population , there are n't nearly so many teachers , young women teachers who leave the system to get married and then perhaps do n't go back at all , or only go back on a part-time basis . |
| 6 | The Simple scenarios will take minutes once mastered , the Average Campaigns will require some hours , the Complex Campaigns may take literally days , so stock up on the ‘ ole K rations ! |
| 7 | England 's batsmen looked in decent enough form yesterday on a shirt-front pitch , nor does the heat appear to be causing them undue distress . |
| 8 | Most guitarists know people who can outplay them in some way and so most register somewhere on the meek and self-effacing scale . |
| 9 | To actually just sit back on the hands , as the government are doing , is not a policy , it 's an abdication of responsibility . |
| 10 | Both convergent and divergent modes of thought are necessary for a creative act to occur : the writer must actually arrange his freely associated ideas into organised prose or the scientist finally home in on the solution to a problem . |
| 11 | ‘ Just ease up on the drama . |
| 12 | Travellers journeying into the town no longer look out on an industrial wasteland the ramshackle legacy of Darlington 's past . |
| 13 | Most of the guests on his show live next door — they just pop in on the way home from work . |
| 14 | They already open only on a part time basis . |
| 15 | Your Area Managers , your Regional Directors , all got plans ? or do you think those people that are running the company just get up on a Monday , oh , let's see what we can do this week . |
| 16 | ‘ Tonight why do n't we just skip all the 4 play mama , and just get down on the floor ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Tonight why do n't we just skip all the 4 play mama , and just get down on the floor ! ’ |
| 18 | Worry no more , just splash out on a Zzap ! 64 TURBO DATACORDER and wave goodbye to those tape trubs ! |
| 19 | Just go up on the stage and just start just talking to people and suddenly they , get back ! |
| 20 | Just go up on the A fifty five |
| 21 | ‘ We 've put the homeless into homes but some just go back on the street begging . |
| 22 | I say , like I say I just just red er paint summat like , these are white these and just go down on the red and just up there and just up here , just get your displays |
| 23 | Defendants who plead not guilty to rape , generally do so on the ground that the victim consented . |
| 24 | Sometimes you have wisdom teeth that have hung on in there for so long they wo n't come out and just lounge about on the X-rays , flicking V-signs . |
| 25 | It was now just light enough on the roof for him to see to load his pistols . |
| 26 | It would , note , generally fall not on the individual household , but on whichever public authority is responsible for waste collection — and thus on local taxpayers — and on companies that bring their rubbish straight to the dump . |
| 27 | Erm so it 's worth doing that we I , cos I was gon na go I was gon na go Thursday and just come back on the Monday but as it is now we 'll go Wednesday and have Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , Saturday , Sunday night , so we 'll come back on the Monday . |
| 28 | It still lay there on the keys , the fingers extended to form the shape . |
| 29 | And we always home in on the cost of a full page . |
| 30 | If you ever break down on a country road at 2 a.m. , you will truly understand the meaning of the word ‘ alone ’ . |