Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as overcoming your own tendencies to resist change , it is best to have some limbering up exercises that you inflict on yourself from time to time . |
| 2 | He looks like I feel on a very bad morning . |
| 3 | I turned our closed circuit cameras onto the flag-wavers and they appeared on the huge screens above the stage . |
| 4 | She says that they banged on the doors , and got them out . |
| 5 | Senior research metallurgist for the Cutlery and Allied Trade Research Association , Alan Medlock , says that it depends on what you call 13/0 . |
| 6 | 4 Now write a second diary entry in which you describe what happens as you arrive on the island . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For example , what happens when you go on holiday for a few weeks , or you are bedridden with influenza , or you change job or move house ? |
| 9 | What happens when you turn on the motor is the whole shed begins to vibrate . |
| 10 | They based almost all their work on anthropological techniques , but they were interested in the wide variety of life styles that they found on their own doorsteps in Chicago , not in simple societies . |
| 11 | Look — this stamp shows that we arrived on Planet Zog today . |
| 12 | The spartan nature of camping requires that you live on dehydrated food , and since at the time of going to print no manufacturer has come up with dehydrated beer , enforced sobriety will be a big feature of your expedition . |
| 13 | But if you know the difference between guitar sounds that you hear on the radio , for instance , then I would maintain that you know too much . |
| 14 | If you know the difference between guitar sounds that you hear on the radio then I would maintain that you know too much |
| 15 | 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 . " |
| 16 | There are reports that she attempted to leave Northumberland House : it seems that she stayed on one occasion with Louise Purdon , who was a " night-nurse " with her own flat above a chemist 's , until she was found and taken back . |
| 17 | ‘ Because he senses that she looks on him with disdain , ’ Lucy informed him . |
| 18 | It appears that he stepped on one of those box mines placed in a gap in a hedgerow . |
| 19 | There are other entries describing my passion for clothes , and also my concern to look good — for example , it notes that I insisted on having long hair , despite problems of manageability . |
| 20 | Pupils are taught on a block system , which means that they concentrate on one particular activity for a certain number of weeks , then move on to a different activity . |
| 21 | This means that it depends on the host 's cells ' own energy-producing system to provide for its own growth and reproduction . |
| 22 | Xorandor explains that he lives on radioactivity , that he has come from Mars in search of food , and that he has been stealing the waste to feed himself . |
| 23 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 24 | Not Diddy Paint , it 's a and he goes ready calcu and he 's showing off he goes right , I 'll show you what it does when he put on the calculator and it |
| 25 | ‘ A good governor does as he pleases on his world , just so long as he pays his tithes in treasure and people . |
| 26 | Erm , what other rational is there behind this definition , the reason this matters is th you will remember the Chairman 's opening remarks when we started on matter two , that it seemed from the debate we had yesterday there was room within the county for the County Council 's proposed level of housing provision |
| 27 | Ursula Block reports that they melted on the way . |
| 28 | The Training Agency frequently claims that it insists on non-discriminatory practices , but ‘ all the evidence points to widespread exclusion of Black trainees from prestigious employer based schemes … most likely to lead to full-time jobs , top-ups to the allowance and higher quality training ’ . |
| 29 | A FORMER employee of British Nuclear Fuels at Sellafield ( formerly Windscale ) goes before an industrial tribunal today to claim that he was forced into resigning from the Sellafield works because he insisted on answers to his allegations that the plant 's laundry was inefficient and turned out ‘ clean ’ overalls that still contained traces of radioactivity . |