Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they showed an interest in the water chute , she decided it was too dangerous for them to go on it alone . |
| 2 | But let them think on this . |
| 3 | to promote greater accountability of schools by requiring them to report on their practice to their governing bodies and to the LEA ; to promote the improvement of educational practice by requiring schools to undertake a review of their activities . |
| 4 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 5 | Back at her flat , though , she made herself a cup of tea and was able to give her thoughts free rein — all of them centred on Naylor Massingham . |
| 6 | Find some of them insist on finding their own cage and er so you do then have to er have a flexible approach . |
| 7 | He seemed unconcerned at letting me loose on his half-share investment and I tried telling myself that ahead lay merely a quick pop over three undemanding obstacles , not the first searching test of my chances of racing . |
| 8 | He seemed to have forgotten about only letting me loose on water . |
| 9 | Your chairman was kind enough — before he let me loose on this most patient audience — to say that my attitude , for an historian , was very unhistorical and I took it that that was meant as praise . |
| 10 | No disrespect to my conveyancing brethren but I would n't let them loose on a guilty plea of going the wrong way round a keep left sign . |
| 11 | And forced as she was by circumstances to bring her own dirty and vicious brood to work with her , she took a great pleasure in letting them loose on the two youngest Milligans , deliberately ignoring their torments and teases . |
| 12 | ‘ Can you tell me when we can begin to teach the totally inexperienced , gauche young ladies you 've employed as receptionists , or do we just let them loose on our unsuspecting clients ? ’ |
| 13 | What good is an educational system which fools youngsters into thinking they are much cleverer than they really are and lets them loose on the working world ( not that there 's much work there ) with worthless qualifications ? |
| 14 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 15 | This is why , after a night of south-easterly winds and rain in spring or in autumn , you can find the islands littered with small birds of many species , all desperately trying to find some food which can replenish the energy reserves sufficiently to enable them to continue on their way as soon as weather allows . |
| 16 | But some , such as the Portuguese man-of-war ( Physalia ) and the velella , have sacs full of gas , which enable them to float on the surface , trailing their poisonous tentacles to catch fish that come to browse in the surface water . |
| 17 | A number of documentary collections , some of them drawing on Soviet publications , were compiled by western scholars , but they tended to bear the strong imprint of liberal editorship and to concentrate on political rather than socio-economic material . |
| 18 | Roger from Ramsey was driving , and a good enough hand with horses and wagons , but what chance did he have with the pair of them drawing on him ? |
| 19 | And this chap in pen , and it showed them drawing on his lips when he was anaesthetized where you |
| 20 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 21 | Since the work is covered by Building Regulations , you will need to inform your local authority ; they may well tell you the type of trench necessary , the ways the drains have to be laid in them depending on local soil conditions and the material to be used for the drains . |
| 22 | While this may mean working only one day less per week , that one day may provide a vital breathing space for women like Alice Perkins , working in demanding , pressurised jobs , and it may just allow them to remain on a career path that will take them into positions of power . |
| 23 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 24 | ‘ The Kha-Khan wants me to report on his conduct . ’ |
| 25 | Did you expect me to fall on your neck in some touching display of filial affection ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't expect me to fall on your neck in gratitude , Merkut , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Police blockades forced them to proceed on foot , and as the march approached the border the following day it came under fire from the security forces . |
| 28 | And do it now rather than them pounce on you later and accuse you of hidin' her . |
| 29 | He did not bother to look up when Corbett and Ranulf were ushered in but made a gesture for them to sit on the bench alongside the table while he continued noisily with his meal . |
| 30 | On the glass is drawn the triangle , and also some of the biomorphs whose genetic formulae entitle them to sit on that particular flat plane . |