Example sentences of "we [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 2 | That 's if we 'd gone in on fixed price on scaled fee |
| 3 | I mean gender is one issue , but it 's not the only one , and one of the ones that it seems to me that we 've missed out on erm to date , when we 're talking about International Women 's Day , is race . |
| 4 | And something 's changed in the intervening time , I mean I know there 's aggravation and times are hard , I know we 've cut back on the hours and the rest , but there 's a lot of things that are n't good . |
| 5 | Well , in actual fact we 've cut down on the boxing bit |
| 6 | On arrival at Llandrindod we crossed over to the other platform to board the train which had arrived from Swansea — there being only nine minutes between arrival and departure — only to be told that we would have to go back on to the unit we had travelled up on . |
| 7 | I would like to have discovered what had become of Mr Graham , for although we had not known each other well , I would say we had got on on those occasions we had met . |
| 8 | On the far side of it stood a village of longhouses , much like the ones we had left back on the coast , except that these were entered by round doors instead of the normal rectangular ones . |
| 9 | We had barged in on an 18-day course on Bioregionalism at Schumacher College , in the Old Postern at Dartington , conducted by Kirkpatrick Sale . |
| 10 | We had come out on a broad dirt road . |
| 11 | This is the first test we have carried out on a garden blower vac . |
| 12 | ‘ We would deny any suggestion we have backed down on an agreement . |
| 13 | By imagining these two kinds of plant , we have zeroed in on the crucial difference between a bottlenecked and an unbottlenecked life cycle . |
| 14 | ‘ In our close work with P&G , ’ said John Sutton , ‘ we have put down on paper an understanding by both of us of what the customer expects and what we can adhere to . ’ |