Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the second last she put in a tremendous leap and was back in the lead as Run And Skip started to fade , but Forgive 'N Forget on the stands side and Wayward Lad inside him were now going for home , and they passed Dawn Run on the approach to the last . |
| 2 | No one remembers the herbaceous border for itself , or remarks on the subtlety of textures in your dashing skate-and-potato combo . |
| 3 | In almost all cases this venom is used as a means of defence , and most people are stung after handling or stepping on a fish . |
| 4 | — When going for country walks , one often comes across a railway line , and it is tempting to walk along either beside the rails or stepping on the sleepers between the rails . |
| 5 | As we noted before , one of the prime concerns of teachers is that they do not have enough time to carry out the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities of their jobs to their own satisfaction , let alone to invest in enhancing their own skills , or reflecting on their roles and priorities , to anything like the extent which they would like . |
| 6 | The name and age of the party boy or girl could be piped or painted on many of the cakes — perhaps across the large band of the hot-air balloon , on the space rocket or on the pop-up birthday card . |
| 7 | No political action may be undertaken or justified on the ground that it promotes an ideal of the good nor on the ground that it enables individuals to pursue an ideal of the good . |
| 8 | However , without a warrant , or unless other arrestable offences are involved ( e.g. fire arms ) , they have no right to search premises or remain on private premises without invitation once the breach of the peace has been dealt with . |
| 9 | B. When trade started , people walked or rode on horseback or in waggons to those villages which were chosen to have weekly markets . |
| 10 | Marooned in that room or dawdling on the shore . |
| 11 | The expert will in most cases want each party to send him a written submission accompanied by copies of the documents referred to or relied on in the submission . |
| 12 | The memorandum of association of the Ashbury Railway Company stated the company 's objects to be : ‘ to make or sell or lend on hire railway carriages , wagons and all kinds of railway plant , fittings , machinery and rolling stock ; to carry on the business of mechanical engineers and general contractors , to purchase and sell as merchants timber , coal , metal and other materials , and to buy and sell such materials on commission or as agents ’ . |
| 13 | Arguments in favour are that the video recording gives a more complete record because it shows what the lecturer writes on the board or displays on the Overhead Projector and it can also cover any demonstrations that are part of the lecture . |
| 14 | Horses wo n't be airsick all over your lap ; they do n't drone on about overbooked hotels , or insist on playing Scrabble to pass the time . |
| 15 | As a result , surveyors are likely to charge a higher fee or insist on a more extensive and therefore more expensive survey ; alternatively they may persuade the building societies and banks to stop showing valuation reports to borrowers . |
| 16 | In addition , some stations may , according to the state of the market , either offer extra ‘ support ’ spots to buyers of sufficient peak time ; or insist on buyers taking unpopular ‘ support ’ spots as well as the peak spots they want . |
| 17 | For example , if they refuse to allow their children to attend British schools , do not learn English , or insist on forming ethnically based work-groups , their assimilation will be impeded . |
| 18 | It is not an abuse to process to assert private law rights by a private action even if the action raises or turns on public law issues . |
| 19 | He has developed five categories for classifying non-availability of individual titles : 1 ) title not acquired , 2 ) catalogue error , 3 ) title in circulation , 4 ) library error ( title missing or misplaced on shelves ) , and 5 ) user error in searching . |
| 20 | Suspicious documentation e.g. changes or alterations to estimates or invoices , same writing or typing on estimates or receipts as on claim form , no company logo on documentation . |
| 21 | The effects of slight slip or skid on stalls in turns |
| 22 | Keeping the thumb in this position gives strength to the fist and prevents the thumb from sticking out or catching on something during a fight , and fracturing or breaking . |
| 23 | Or got on the same bus . |
| 24 | As she flies through the dark , or gallops on the horse of night , she is using different skills from those of our daytime world . |
| 25 | There were lots of smaller snapshots of him sitting astride Trigger , or propped on cushions behind the steering-wheel of Buddie 's truck , or standing in the garden in his very smartest clothes . |
| 26 | Scarcely a day passes without us reading in the newspapers or seeing on television assaults , batteries , violent acts of all kinds . |
| 27 | .. Then there swam pleasantly into her muddled mind the recollection that Jerome would never have anything to say about anything again , never drive at eighty-five or pick on Nora or do those other terrible and humiliating things . |
| 28 | The Butler Act provided for universal free state secondary education , but did not specify the form it should take or rule on whether or not there should be selective schools . |
| 29 | There has been a lot of debate in political circles as to whether on-the-road campaigning should tackle political issues or concentrate on displaying the personality of the candidates . |
| 30 | Or concentrate on your breathing for a few minutes , just feeling your stomach rising and falling but without trying to control the breathing in any way . |