Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 2 | With your wonderful knowledge of the Bible , Mr. Deputy Speaker , you produced the Lazarus motion which revived them all from the dead and they eventually passed on their way through the House . |
| 3 | Forrester eventually got on the pitch with about 5 minutes left , and indeed Fowler was attempting to put him through when the ball richoched back to him , hit him in the stomach and sat up in a ‘ kick me please ’ type fashion , which he did , and scored . |
| 4 | And er we , we did n't do an awful lot on commercial later on , we gave up that er thing we , we mostly concentrated on the private cars . |
| 5 | The workshop began the process of drawing up a charter which would be put forward to the June Chesterfield Conference ( again , any positive work here is being channel led back into the system ) The Reproductive Rights Workshop focussed on the issue of abortion , and individual women 's experiences , and very little surfaced on how these so called ’ rights ’ affect working class women , there was even a suggestion of wages for housework for women ! |
| 6 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 7 | He eventually capitalized on his knowledge of Europe by publishing in 1796 both a set of five maps of the Rhine , Meuse , and Scheldt and a survey entitled A Developement of the Views and Designs of the French Nation , which sought to warn the English of certain French activities . |
| 8 | The following features of a statutory redundancy payment emerged : ( 1 ) The obligation was imposed on the employer ; ( 2 ) It only arose on dismissal and might never arise if an employee worked until retirement , whether voluntary — early retirement — or at an agreed date , each of which was based on contract ; ( 3 ) It only arose if certain preconditions were proved ; ( 4 ) It applied to all employees who had worked for at least two years with an employer ; ( 5 ) Certain classes of employee were excluded , eg redundant employees refusing suitable alternative employment ; employees under a fixed-term contract of two years or more , who had renounced their redundancy rights in writing ; ( 6 ) A voluntary redundancy could be under a contractual statutory scheme , and under such a contractual scheme it was often the equivalent of early retirement by agreement ; ( 7 ) In no way could a redundancy payment be described as a deferred emolument or pay ; it was a monetary compensation for the disappearance of a job . |
| 9 | On 12 June , after a feint in the direction of Tours , Richard and Philip suddenly swooped on Le Mans itself . |
| 10 | That was before my time , of course , but he obviously passed on some of his skills because during , or just after , very wet weather , Sam would go off somewhere and catch lovely brown trout , which he often gave to people who were ill ; and sometimes when he had a sheep to kill , he would send down the head which would make a really tasty and nourishing broth . |
| 11 | The NIBA too had to battle all the way against the PBA , but they only failed on one rink — that skipped by Rathfriland 's Gary McIlroy was beaten 26–14 by Eamon McCann . |
| 12 | Okay so got on that train , thinking it would go straight to Hertford and it did n't . |
| 13 | We only realised on Monday Sunderland were likely to bring 6,000 fans with them . |
| 14 | Not much rose on the Tees at Stockton in those days , least of all trout ; and a ducking was followed by a dash to hospital and an appointment with a stomach pump . |
| 15 | The scene was frantic : a sea of members but precious few stage-divers ( these guys like to keep their distance ) , simply ridiculous volume levels that make sure you only concentrated on the music , lovely melodies , and people getting away from the pressures of daily life in a northern town . |
| 16 | He so concentrated on his dialogue — I never had to reshoot a scene because Kenny fluffed a line — that he could n't do anything at the same time as he was talking . ’ |
| 17 | Curzon was wont to complain , and with justice , that Chamberiain ‘ forgot all about India when he launched his scheme ’ , and whimsically mused on ‘ what would have become of him and us if he had ever visited India … |
| 18 | One of his favourite instances is the scene in On the Waterfront when Brando , thinking he was between takes , idly tried on the glove that Eva Marie Saint had dropped . |
| 19 | The visibility was poor and on the outward journey she merely concentrated on her driving while Freddie , on the back seat , studied some notes he had brought with him . |
| 20 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 21 | Those wonderfully powerful steam engines belching out smoke as they literally trembled on their way , the fair men hanging on to all sorts of vantage points as they progressed towards their goal . |
| 22 | She was held up briefly in the final when the in-form Sanchez-Vicario swept to a 4–1 lead ( and deservedly so ) and yet Martina , the grass court player supreme , merely drew on her experience , stepped up a gear , kept her nerve and won 5 games in a row to deflate the Spanish challenge . |
| 23 | However , occasionally , very occasionally , a horse will become so fixated on its owner , so dependent on their approval , that it will be unobliging and uncooperative with other people . |
| 24 | Beware of becoming so fixated on this one position that you acquire a mental block against progressing further . |
| 25 | But she only came on the scene recently ; there were others . |
| 26 | It seemed that the caretaker only came on fine days , so they were alone in the house . |
| 27 | Sometimes when groups of horses get mixed up a foal may seem to get irrationally fixated on another horse . |
| 28 | The Gedge boy , who apparently spied on the entire population of Dynmouth , had no doubt seen him . |
| 29 | He suddenly turned on me . |
| 30 | In a ‘ stop run ’ organised by the landlord of the Half Moon on St. Paul 's Street during Christmas 1776 , the Mercury reported that ‘ several people were toss 'd , and one man , terribly bruis 'd and gor 'd in the face , by which it is fear 'd he will lose one of his eyes ’ and in 1785 the underbutler of Burghley House was killed when the bull suddenly turned on him . |