Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were one of several people who were probably going to be let go on my recommendation as part of a rationalisation programme , but the manner in which I caused it to happen … |
| 2 | Marjorie Gedge helped serve on the T-shirt stall and when fans realised her identity , they demanded her autograph . |
| 3 | The Chronicle says that in 1009 an opportunity to fall on the enemy was let slip on account of Eadric , " as it always was " . |
| 4 | I knew that in 1945 they could not make do on their rations . |
| 5 | That was where I met and still meet the only person I 'd call a friend ; Jamie the dwarf , whom I let sit on my shoulders so he can see the bands . |
| 6 | Discussions are being held up by Germany 's insistance on the involvement of a national body to help decide on any major takeover . |
| 7 | To help decide on the relevance of a piece of information you can ask questions of it as suggested in Question Analysis . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , PTGI continues to review videos of other Guinness advertising around the world to help decide on the next step . |
| 9 | This may have helped draw on the Enemy 's hasty stroke , thinks Gandalf at III , 88 . |
| 10 | But he had locked them in last night and he had done so on orders from the Gruagach so they did not dare rely on him . |
| 11 | Er and there 're certain categories that 'll always go into estate agents wo n't go in medical practices wo n't go go on golf courses and wo n't go in schools . |
| 12 | this last week to friends , i , we , you used to live live on the street and we were just playing you know . |
| 13 | When it did dawn on me it was too late . |
| 14 | He did research on the detection of foetal abnormalities at St Bartholomew 's , then moved to the Royal Free Hospital and began his crusade to offer women a more holistic approach to giving birth . |
| 15 | He was a firm atheist and was interested in , though unconvinced by , the paranormal , and also did research on hypnosis . |
| 16 | In terms of Greater York and its th the York greenbelt I think it 's true to say that er some time ago when David Kaiserman of Manchester did research on greenbelts he came to the view , or he came up with the conclusions from his questionnaires that he sent round , and that study was done , must be ten , fifteen years ago or more , that greenbelts should endure unchanged for at least twenty years , and probably in excess of thirty , and those were the responses of county planning and other major planning authorities at that time , that view if anything has hardened , the public view would be way beyond thirty years . |
| 17 | Where data do exist on support between kin across households , this tends in effect to be limited to documenting the networks through which support flowed and the kind of support which was given , and can give very little direct evidence about the underlying structure of social relations which supported these exchanges . |
| 18 | He had not been well early in the previous year , and decided to resign as Chairman , though he did remain on the Board for five more years as the Goldsmiths ' nominee . |
| 19 | Indeed he did broadcast on the BBC before the war with a man called Harry Hopeful who ran a very popular show , rather on the same lines as Wilfrid Pickles and his Have a Go programme . |
| 20 | There was no taboo on incest , any constraints that did exist on hu on human beings ' mating preferences were dictated by the primal fathers . |
| 21 | It appears from last week 's letter that secretary Ernie McCormick and manager Frankie Parks did appeal on Joe Kerr 's behalf and we appreciate their efforts . |
| 22 | Balancing an existing roster is of primary importance to a major company , whereas some smaller independent companies can and do concentrate on a particular sound or style of music . |
| 23 | There are , of course , history books , or rather sections and chapters in books , which do focus on women . |
| 24 | Either he was so upset that he did n't look where he was going , or he really did jump on purpose . ’ |
| 25 | Stamp duties , which did fall on the luxury consumption of the better-off , made up only 13 per cent of indirect taxation in 1800 and less than half as much of total revenue . |
| 26 | It 'd be funny if she did fall on her nose . |
| 27 | ( However , they do appear on the half mill — why the difference , CAA ? ) |
| 28 | They do appear on many of the precedents commonly used by practitioners . |
| 29 | As Mike had feared , the chimps did appear on film rather like dark shadows lost in the leaves . |
| 30 | I mean , it 's , it 's , I really do feel on these tendency to come on all the reports , I think we want , I think we want to hear that jobs and wages will undoubtedly go up , it 's erm this is absolutely inevitable that wages will go up and rise in the situation . |