Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yeah , so you 'd anticipate some coming in on the A fifty nine , if you went that far north , |
| 32 | Unfortunately this fell out on the third ascent . |
| 33 | As a supposedly general-purpose chip , he said , the 80860 falls down on programmability , no thought seemingly having been given to the compiler and operating environment . |
| 34 | I think , you know , you say you 've got a month , I think you 're gon na need also to try and find out from your membership as to whether in fact they 're prepared to turn up on a Saturday as well . |
| 35 | yeah , it might affect us if we 're gon na play that mu more matches on a Sunday as well because I do n't know how many people will be prepared to turn out on both days . |
| 36 | Some grew up on river crossings , at water-holes on the westward trails , and a remarkable number — Matson included — on the railroads or , thanks to founding fathers with a keen eye for land values , where they deduced the railroads must come . |
| 37 | Until the English clamped down on the custom my forefathers all used the prefix ‘ ap ’ in front of their names — the last king of South Wales , for instance , was Rhys ap Tewdwr . |
| 38 | Some collectors used to visit the museum weekly to check up on how the art they lent was being shown , or if it was shown at all ’ , says one long-time curator . |
| 39 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 40 | So in other words we got eight tens left over on the bottom . |
| 41 | They may draw some comfort from a survey revealing recession-hit parents are still prepared to spend out on youngsters . |
| 42 | They may draw some comfort from a survey revealing recession-hit parents are still prepared to spend out on youngsters . |
| 43 | By July 1959 , the station has almost disappeared , but an atmospheric background was still provided by Grassmoor Colliery as B1 No. 61111 ran through on a Nottingham-Sheffield local . |
| 44 | If you are prepared to splash out on costs Sunsail can organise your event in the Caribbean , Mediterranean or Thailand . |
| 45 | According to sources at the highest level , the Santa Cruz Operation Inc has ‘ bitten the ideological bullet , ’ and is prepared to step out on the Unix SVR4 road — if it can cut the deal it wants with Unix owner USL . |
| 46 | For months SCO has resisted adopting SVR4 even though SCO co-founder Doug Michels recently told Unigram.X he had finally ‘ bitten the ideological bullet ’ and was prepared to step out on the SVR4 road provided it could get the right terms ( UX No 398 ) . |
| 47 | She blinked at Shiona and half sat up on the bed . |
| 48 | It was exciting to travel up on the night train and to find Granny waiting beside the fire in the hall , as exhilarated by the festivities as any of her grandchildren . |
| 49 | The Animals in Medicine Research Information Centre ( AMRIC ) was founded in 1985 to speak out on behalf of such workers , yet the climate remains an unhappy one , thriving on propaganda , half-truths , and plain ignorance , as well as violence . |
| 50 | I told them , as I tell alumni wherever I meet them , that the best thing you can do for the University is to remember its strengths , and in your normal professional and daily lives to be prepared to speak up on the University 's behalf when you think it is appropriate . |
| 51 | At all times it was possible to listen in on interviews and to monitor the interviewer 's work on a control screen . |
| 52 | Whatever the reason , you would be ill-advised to go out on your own . |
| 53 | MacLachlan , victor of eight combats over the island , was fortunate to come down on Malta itself , rather than in the sea : ‘ For what seemed like hours I hung there , apparently motionless , with Malta still as far away as ever . |
| 54 | We talked endlessly — there was so much to catch up on . |
| 55 | It is impossible to creep up on the duck , because its 360 degree vision takes in the slightest movement anywhere around it . |
| 56 | Even long-drained regions , such as Longdon Marsh in Worcestershire , are easy to pick out on the Ordnance Survey as ‘ holes ’ on the map . |
| 57 | I imagine it would be virtually impossible to sneak up on an owl . |
| 58 | We 've been out here too long and risked too much for Earth Central to give up on us now . ’ |
| 59 | In the absence of much to shout about on the score sheet , Leeds fans reverted to taking the mick out of Arse fans ' feeble singing by doing antiphonal ‘ red army , red army ’ chanting in high-pitched silly voices . |
| 60 | I saw erm we saw a campaign chair near Mold week before last it was I asked the guy how much put down on it , you know , he said thirty pounds so I sa , I said I saw it for forty . |