Example sentences of "you [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.

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1 has , his sister , er you ought to come over on Sunday er , I was surprised you said on Sunday cos we , well last Sunday we went and had a drink with them .
2 You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology .
3 No no you must miss out on a go , oh it does n't say , let him have another go then
4 Do the same at intervals throughout the roof on occasional joists , rafters , purlins and trusses — and you must get down on your knees to reach right to the eaves and wall-plates .
5 For now you must lie down on the bed and go to sleep . ’
6 There are certain expenses that you can offset against tax , which you should put down on your tax form .
7 Consider what you could eat more of , as well as what you should cut down on .
8 If you 're very quick because you might miss out on what we 're going to talk about .
9 No , you might puke up on the way
10 Left : This quirky medley of feathers , birds ' eggs , driftwood and skulls shows how even objects you might pick up on a country walk can make attractive — as well as interesting — displays
11 Our songs , superficially , you might get off on the hook , but you can go further into the lyric . ’
12 The maternal words ‘ If you do n't study hard , you 'll end up on the check-out counter at Tesco 's ’ had had , if not the intended effect , the result of causing Camille and her friends to look down on shop assistants , bank clerks and bus drivers : for more recondite reasons of their own they also held in contempt estate and travel agents and people who worked in advertising .
13 One day you 'll look back on it all and laugh . ’
14 You 'd walk out on a job , because of personal problems ?
15 You 'd go out on this wonderful surge .
16 ‘ I thought for a moment that you 'd run out on me . ’
17 The church used to talk about the ‘ natural law ’ and if that was in full force you 'd get up on every good-looking woman within sight .
18 You mean to say you could go down our steps there and if you keep goin' you 'd come out on the water ? ,
19 If you 'd come out on the gig with me you could have held it for me .
20 well that 's what I wan na know , that 's right , that 's all I wan na know , never give way to traffic on the , on the right , you could pull out on it , if indicating
21 And there was a memo to John from yourself , tenth of Jan , that my manager has passed to me , it said you 'd given two options that you could go in on Saturday and erm
22 You could , you could go back on the Permitabs if you want .
23 Funny I used to sleep on the side of banks , you could dig out on the banks , sleep , sit on the oh yeah .
24 Or quarter to two in the morning , there were only two you could come back on .
25 You could come down on the the first half and I can jump and that 's like Wrestle Mania .
26 You could splash out on a kingsize Strata waterbed costing around £2,800 .
27 From the third floor offices of the NME you could gaze down on the clueless hordes below .
28 ‘ Did you used to get off on what you were doing ? ’ he enquired .
29 Watford is erm when you used to come out on the old
30 And when I 've expanded and I 've told you then I then come back to my ending and I say , okay so what I 've done I 've told you about three aspects of flying , about the safety of it , ab about the costs involved in taking part in flying and about the enjoyment you 're gon na get out of flying and I hope that I 've persuaded you that you will come along on Saturday to take part , and that 's the ending .
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