Example sentences of "on [conj] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | go as far as to say we probably know less about what 's going on than he does . |
| 2 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 3 | A trumpet arrives offering a million ducats and freedom : I 'm not going to surrender when I know I 'm going to win anyway — or at least get supplies to hang on until something happens to Zacco . |
| 4 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 5 | He takes his hand , puts his blond head down and wills himself to go on until he reaches his yellow bedroom with teddies stencilled around the walls . |
| 6 | He drives on until he comes to an open square with people eating at tables under the trees . |
| 7 | And so it goes on until he boards a ship about to set Voyager ( 15 , Curzon West End , 113 mins ) Europa ( 15 , Chelsea , Everyman , 114 mins ) sail for France and meets Sabeth , the pony-tailed young woman who is his ‘ fate ’ , leading him back to the woman he once loved and to his own Greek tragedy . |
| 8 | 3 What you will be working on until he sees you next time . |
| 9 | But the show will go on if it does . |
| 10 | For the enthusiast , a second innings might be played to determine the outcome , with a side following on if it fails to come within an agreed number of runs of its opponents score . |
| 11 | Severed from the rest of the world by sea and sky , an atoll-dweller , unlike a continental people , can not easily resolve his differences with neighbours by simply fighting or moving on if he loses . |
| 12 | ‘ He should carry on if he wants to and I for one will go on using him — he 's the best ! ’ |
| 13 | See it all hinges on if he 's got a bandsaw , if he if he has n't got a bandsaw , wasting our ruddy time . |
| 14 | And they do go wrong sometimes — you switch on and nothing happens , or the picture starts breaking up , or you ca n't get any sound . |
| 15 | There 's a li he puts a light on and it lights it up down the , a long way down . |
| 16 | We can put a bucket on and it fills ours up , she can put a bucket on and it 's flat . |
| 17 | You turn it on and it tapes people singing or talking . |
| 18 | Also , as compared with a shot in which the subject traverses the picture directly from one side to the other , the diagonal movement gives the eye longer in which to take in what is going on and it reduces the need to pan the camera to follow the subject . |
| 19 | You send it round , what they want training on and it comes back to the manager |
| 20 | We got about twenty panels at work and on the panel there 's a little plastic thing stuck on and it needs four keys and one . |
| 21 | I 've got Brylcreem on and it looks black . |
| 22 | Yes , yes , it does n't compete with the fireplace , we have a , a , er mock fire in there you know , normally in the winter that , that 's on and it looks , it 's very realistic , it almost looks as if it is a fire glowing all the time cos there 's a rotary spinner in it and it flickers , er , and er the room is very warm because it 's central heated anyway and , no I would n't say , it never bothers me the television , I do n't suppose that er , if I were left on my own I 'd hardly have it left on you know I think men watch television more than women . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's hard to believe the amount of work that 's gone on and it 's all been voluntary . ’ |
| 24 | I ran into a earlier on and it 's just opened again . |
| 25 | It means that Mrs Thatcher 's great reforming legacy is safe and will be built on and it means that Britain 's Euro-sceptic approach to Maastricht will dominate our coming Euro-presidency at a time when the federalist dream is turning sour all over Europe . |
| 26 | ‘ The fact that he goes on and he thinks his ideas are the ideas . |
| 27 | yeah , that , that bloke his got his fucking , there 's this bloke he 's got his sun glasses on and he thinks his er sun bathing , so he got this fucking what 's it , his trousers on still and he 's trying to get his trunks on and his trousers on still cos this blokes there , he 's fucking going from all this and that |
| 28 | It has just been agreed that they will talk about the young scientist 's work , the tape-recorder is switched on and he says : |
| 29 | Oh they have this silly man who picks up the telephone in a he 's er got a chef 's hat on and he says Giovanni 's and then it was , it turns out to be one of his old friends so he lapses into sort of Glaswegian . |
| 30 | so when somebody says to him what sides your heart on and he says right they say no , he says yes it is |