Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last , the hand — held European anti — tank missile BRITAIN , France and West Germany have decided to work together on a family of new missiles that will destroy , tanks . |
| 2 | Like a lot of weekends you 'd leave , you 'd leave the T A centre about eight and then from eight o'clock Friday night too about , well you 'd be working until about three o'clock Sunday afternoon , and you are lucky if you 'd got three or four hours sleep working you do n't notice , you get tired but you do n't feel that bad and it was only like I used to come home on a Sunday crash out about sleep about . |
| 3 | A PLANE was turned into a makeshift surgery when a doctor was forced back to work early on a flight home from the sun . |
| 4 | A much easier alternative is to come here on a summer bank holiday weekend , join the queue and be winched down in a bosun 's chair courtesy of various caving clubs . |
| 5 | I imagined they were old and slow reptiles , too far gone to chase a sprightly private detective around their pit , content just to chew placidly on a hunk of dead cow . |
| 6 | In ten days he aims to teach the six to walk properly on a lead , sit when told , lie down and stay and return to their owners from any distraction . |
| 7 | Using a documentary approach and including numerous interviews with transexuals it failed to explain their motivations , choosing instead to focus solely on a description of a beleaguered subculture of poor black and hispanic gays . |
| 8 | Somewhere on the edge of this feeling she knew there was danger , but for the moment she allowed herself to drift alone on a cloud of enchantment . |
| 9 | When joining an Airway try to do so on a track as close as possible to 90° to the centre line . |
| 10 | But for such vituperation and the violence it provoked the law could not punish him , though it tried to do so on a number of occasions . |
| 11 | One of them even took off to perch indignantly on a rooftop a good sixty yards away . |
| 12 | ‘ So I see , ’ I said nervously , watching as he smacked his lips for fire to stream from his mouth , the top of his head to fly upwards on a jet of steam or his eyes to turn into Catherine wheels . |
| 13 | Fairfax 's plane circles once and then comes down to land bumpily on a piece of gazelle-inhabited ground . |
| 14 | Getting Microsoft Windows to run remotely on a Sun Microsystems Inc workstation was seen as the last step in the development effort . |
| 15 | They had left it for me to finish alone on a chill blue , lonely morning five centuries later . |
| 16 | My own son , as a small boy , allowed to graze freely on a strawberry field during a ‘ pick your own ’ expedition and aware that he , unlike our basket , would not be weighed and charged , once achieved a mammoth strawberry-eating feat . |
| 17 | And he said : ‘ Do you want to go forward on a charge on that ? ’ |
| 18 | What would they think if Johnny were to sit casually on a chair which , to their eyes , simply was n't there ? |
| 19 | And I think I made it quite clear that it was not the quality of the Education Authority that was the basis of the Banbury School 's proposals , it was the County Council 's decision to go ahead on a consultation for tertiary education , an entirely different animal in Oxfordshire , and I , like Bob , would agree that the erm quality of education offered in Oxfordshire is first class . |
| 20 | I think erm certainly for a child to rely entirely on a calculator for all mathematical operations would be a disastrous thing . |
| 21 | It is perhaps not the ideal place for a beautiful blonde to return late on a Saturday night . ’ |
| 22 | Whether it would be appropriate for the employee to return initially on a part time basis ; |
| 23 | Others were picked up opportunistically because a visitor or student arrived with just the right skills or interests to move ahead on a front I might otherwise have neglected . |
| 24 | It was very unusual for him to go anywhere on a Thursday , whether Porteneil or any further afield . |
| 25 | Twenty-four ? — had forty quid to throw away on a bit of sacking . |