Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone drives on the left , the traffic lights are red , green and amber and people still wait until the lights turn to green before signalling that they 're turning right , leaving you stuck behind them . |
| 2 | Everyone sits on verandahs endlessly and drinks . ’ |
| 3 | Everyone imposes on him . |
| 4 | In in the inside so nothing goes on that . |
| 5 | Everyone remarks on how aggressive it now is , and it seems Down Under , Hewlett-Packard Co made its point about its new mainframe-killing Emerald servers by launching them in the Fossil Gallery of the Australian Museum , carefully labelling the dinosaur skeletons with jibes at IBM Corp , Hitachi Ltd , Fujitsu Ltd , Amdahl Corp and Digital Equipment Corp : legends such as ‘ ES/9000 — a large body and a small brain led this animal to become extinct ’ . |
| 6 | This element is lacking in another group of cases , where nothing turns on any prior act of the potential defendant but rather on the delivery of the document to the official of the forum state or its publication at some prescribed place . |
| 7 | Nothing turns on the statutory definition of those words : it is sufficient to note that from 1988 onwards , governors have been bound to admit a minimum specified number of applicants . |
| 8 | Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown . |
| 9 | Nothing turns on the precise figures . |
| 10 | In addition Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien 's son , who also worked in the company , was to provide certain security , but nothing turns on his involvement and I need not go into the details . |
| 11 | Nothing turns on this . |
| 12 | Again , nothing turns on this point . |
| 13 | Presumably nothing turns on which plan |
| 14 | There is , however , no need for a precise definition of ‘ large ’ since nothing turns on any particular size threshold being crossed . |
| 15 | Everyone starts on me |
| 16 | If everyone stands on tiptoe , no one sees better . |
| 17 | ‘ Everyone lives on a neighbourly basis with each other . |
| 18 | DNase I footprints on the VZV gene 62 promoter . |
| 19 | For the simple reason you know you one of the if someone starts on one person in our group all the rest of the group can get together and get them . |
| 20 | It is n't every day that someone starts on the ground floor and ends up by being made a director of the firm . |
| 21 | Suppose someone knocks on your door and says : ‘ I am collecting bribes from people who mind the factory smoke falling on their gardens . |
| 22 | Bolt themselves in , if someone knocks on the door , you know , it 's sort of who is it |
| 23 | The reintroduction of the teaching of grammar does not mean that teachers need to neglect the subjective , creative , personal and expressive , for our ability to express ourselves depends on craft , and craft involves understanding of the forms of language . |
| 24 | I says on a night-time , I said , you know , she ca n't leave her home now , I said , she ca n't manage to put coal on fire , and she ca n't manage to get up up to eat and drink and that , I said , I do n't mind dropping off and taking me turn on the night-time but I mean , but it 's hard , it 's hard with me with kids every night . |
| 25 | I said but when I come here there are cars everywhere , I says on on the picture |
| 26 | Because the rate of cycle I depends on the local concentration of SO 2 , it shows a maximum in the SO 2 cloud . |
| 27 | ODCIE is divided into two volumes : Volume I concentrates on explaining phrasal verbs e.g. break down , get up to ; Volume 2 deals with general idioms e.g. keep the ball rolling , the proof of the pudding . |
| 28 | I gets on all right with him but I do n't like him . |
| 29 | I gets on telephone , I says June 's not coming into work today . |
| 30 | I gets on great with |