Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [det] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ With the Government slowly clamping down on all media coverage , unless I moved fast any chance of filming within South Africa would be gone and I did want the accuracy and flavour of the country itself to come through in the film . ’ |
| 2 | and they stand there sort of bouncing up and down on this canvass thing , you know , sort of like this then she goes ooh ooh , and her bleeding leg comes up in the air |
| 3 | Had they bothered to look in on that Standing Committee , they would have heard me make it clear that the Government will be working in co-operation with our European Community colleagues to find a way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions effectively . |
| 4 | So they came back but of course , if it 's jus if it 's been pouring in on that bathroom ceiling again it 's , it , when I took , when Elsie called up to me , come and look at this , the bathroom ceiling was black mould ! |
| 5 | Mark my words , at this very moment someone is trying to cash in on this supermarket trolley fetish with some useless bit of equipment or other . |
| 6 | And Simon Phillips , when he heard the bagpipes , started in on this Highland drumming thing ! ’ |
| 7 | The influence had already rubbed off on former team-mate Ally McCoist , who was dropped from a vital old firm derby in 1991 for going on a prohibited trip to the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 8 | ‘ Whoever woulda thought a lad could leave such a pretty little gal to go off on some faraway adventure , eh ? ’ |
| 9 | Taking off on this second trip to Benghazi removed him from Cairo at a time when his influence there was needed . |
| 10 | ‘ A rumour will be spread Tweed has gone off on another insurance investigation . |
| 11 | Excise duties are taxes on specific home-produced or imported goods , with ‘ cigarettes , booze and petrol ’ being the usual suspects to be rounded up on each Budget day . |
| 12 | Richard you are the lion and you , Arthur , you are a Canadian Mounted Policeman and when the lion threatens to throw the baby into the volcano , you will come galloping up on that hobby horse — that one there , the one with bells — and rescue him . ’ |
| 13 | So Torrance , seeking his first tournament victory since winning the Jersey Open nearly two years ago , goes into today 's final round three clear of Rocca , four ahead of fellow Scot Stephen McAllister and five up on former Walker Cup player Craig Cassells and Sweden 's Gabriel Hjerstedt . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll have got my bearings by tomorrow , so you wo n't need to stand in for me , ’ she said , ‘ but tonight , I do n't mind admitting , I 'll be glad to catch up on some beauty sleep . |
| 15 | In summing up on this ideas section , we seem to be moving towards advocating that you : ( i ) fix on some aims or targets or intentions ( ii ) decide how these might relate to the actions and behaviour of pupils and teachers ( iii ) try to produce a teaching unit that is illustrative of these intentions and that strives towards promoting some of the desired behaviour ( iv ) report back on the actual relationship between the intentions and the behaviour . |
| 16 | Then standing out on that football pitch . |
| 17 | As I set out on that Christmas afternoon , I planned to learn as I went along . |
| 18 | It must be serious , to have brought you out on that TV-type chase ? |
| 19 | As the patents had run out on many ICI fibre Products , so competitors had jumped on the bandwagon and started building plants at a frenzied pace . |
| 20 | It is best to work out a pattern in advance and draw it out on same graph paper . |
| 21 | The next day , Sunday , Gareth held me to my promise to take him and Coconut out on another survival trip . |
| 22 | Müncheberg and his Kette from 7/JG 26 were on their way out on another hunting expedition . |
| 23 | That could n't be Patterson calling for Airborne yet , but it might well be Airborne out on another document delivery somewhere else . |
| 24 | In an aftermath when the relentless and remorseless inhumanity of the mill owner and his magisterial friends passed into local lore , an attempt was made to assassinate Cartwright and one was successfully carried out on another mill owner , William Horsfall , who had boasted his intent to ride up to his saddle girths in the blood of Luddites . |
| 25 | " Yeah , they have to spend so much of the galactic year out of the Milky Way or the galactic tax federation hammers them for gigacredits , but instead of paying for expensive inter-galactic travel they camp out on some backwater planet still in the galaxy and just hide , see ? |
| 26 | Her boy went out on this work experience thing for his school like . |
| 27 | In the meantime , Mike Harris will miss out on this years batch of heather honey . |
| 28 | Well , they used to do them at fourpence ha'penny a pair , and each one must be put in a big envelope , so as it could go out on this catalogue business . |
| 29 | I 'm going to unravel the little prick 's knickers , and I 'm going to expose its little rubber bladder , or whatever it is those obnoxious bloody choirboys filled with joke-shop blood , then I 'm going to fill it up with piss and hang it back on that music stand . |
| 30 | Get back on that chair arm . |