Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Do you want to go ahead on the lines which have brought prosperity at home ?
2 And he said : ‘ Do you want to go forward on a charge on that ? ’
3 I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks .
4 We 'll also want to sit in on the cochon gris 's ceremony tonight , if there is one . ’
5 I 've had two or three I think , very rarely do we find them and shapers tend to go out on a limb they tend to want to lead they tend to want to control they want people to follow their way they do tend to be the people that dig in and say you know this is the way we do it .
6 She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days .
7 Mr , do you want to come back on the point made on the other side of the room about your arbitrary selection of building rates ?
8 LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available .
9 Danny has to go down on the floor , put his hands on hips and go , evening all !
10 The Westcoast mainline railway runs through the village of Elvanfoot , and locals say the work which Scotrail needs to carry out on a bridge will cut off them off entirely .
11 It 's 7pm and you ca n't wait to go out on the town .
12 The Inland Revenue has commented further on the tax treatment of ex gratia payments made on the termination of an office or employment , as set out in Statement of Practice SP 13/91 .
13 During 1912 , when numbers had reached 172 , it was decided that entry would have to be restricted for the next year , as " the Board of Education has commented adversely on the size of several of our classes and has refused to countenance it " .
14 Well he said that does n't give you long to go out on the razzle .
15 He tried to sit casually on the edge of his desk , farted loudly and stood up again .
16 I tried to sit down on the bed and wait .
17 Even the Chancellor of Oxford University , Roy Jenkins , has to wait outside on the steps of the Clarendon buildings on a cold November morning , when the Sultan of Brunei is in town .
18 Gran has joined in on the act .
19 This would lead us to look not just at the ‘ outputs ’ from institutions , but at the ‘ inputs ’ , and at the achievements of students who would traditionally not have been considered to be capable of achieving success , as well as those who could be expected to perform well on the basis of their previous academic achievements .
20 Now you 'll see him in a moment , he this guy driving he wants to go off on a slip road .
21 This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote .
22 In trying to analyse the reasons for conferring upon the management of the company substantial power to run the company the law has relied heavily on a variety of conceptions of the company .
23 In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease .
24 If they want to come along on the day and enjoy themselves , that 's fine ; we 're even providing a bouncy castle , so children can bounce for the rainforests at the Banbury walk .
25 ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs .
26 He wanted to roar out James 's name , his own name , to scream for help , he tried to pull up on the sill but his fingers scrabbled uselessly and he dropped back .
27 Right if you have a look at what has come up on the screen , on the screen .
28 I was asked to refit some buttons which has come apart on a settee cushion .
29 Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader .
30 I want to comment briefly on the Government 's proposals and to support wholeheartedly the new clauses and amendments tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) .
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