Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rumours also came on a day when B&C reshuffled top management , with chief executive Peter Goldie moved sideways to concentrate on the disposal programme . |
| 2 | Describing the DC as " a rotten apple with a healthy core " , he proposed chiefly to build on the existing cross-party support for his proposals to reform electoral law by referendum . |
| 3 | He had offered the car to Hubert for the summer on condition that everyone promised never to stand on the running boards , because they were threatening to fall off . |
| 4 | Well you would be would n't you if you 'd nowhere to sleep on the night ? |
| 5 | Famous hunters such as F. C. Selous returned home to lecture on the value of big-game hunting as a means of training the next generation of empire-builders . |
| 6 | Innocent began now to concentrate on the imperial bishops and on securing practical support for Otto , who in turn was exhorted to assume a manly attitude and in short " to live up to " the title to which he had been called . |
| 7 | Occasionally , she glanced across to check on the progress of the chemicals bubbling away on the other side of the room . |
| 8 | He was clearing the ground , dispatching his previous writing to the putative immortality of volume form before he began seriously to concentrate on the work to come . |
| 9 | Then Roman reached slowly to flick on the ignition , and the soft , throaty roar of the engine shattered the silence . |
| 10 | He went straight to work on the swollen sheep , and managed to save almost all of them . |
| 11 | Anti-abortionists in the House , faced with growing defections from their ranks , abandoned the struggle to strike out the clause , and chose instead to rely on a promise by President George Bush , on June 4 , to veto the legislation . |
| 12 | It was Ashenden who went upstairs to knock on the door of Room 46 . |
| 13 | The Chancellor fought hard to improve on the initial proposals put to ECOFIN , but he was fighting with one hand tied behind his back . |
| 14 | The Act enshrines principles social workers fought hard to get on the statute book . |
| 15 | United had one more chance six minutes before the end when Martin Foyle did well to turn on the ball ; in the edge of the penalty area he hit a shot low and hard towards the corner of the net but it just drifted wide of the far post and United 's chance had gone . |
| 16 | You ran away to go on the stage |
| 17 | But until these were secured and a new defence structure created , they had perforce to rely on the British . |
| 18 | The the family black sheep , the other sister went , er , er , left home to go on the stage . |
| 19 | It meant that they had almost to stand on the air , flapping furiously , and then drop the last few inches . |
| 20 | Judge Brian Wall , heading the tribunal , said it had yet to rule on the authorities ' submission that the obstetrician and gynaecologist was not a fit and proper person to practise medicine . |
| 21 | As of the end of March the Security Council had yet to agree on a further resolution to establish definitive ceasefire conditions . |
| 22 | Though he had yet to appear on the dim-lit stage , I knew he was going to come for Kingsley Amis . |