Example sentences of "[noun] of [v-ing] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know you see which side my fence is buttered , and if I can bring to football the organisational skills that have made me such a big fish in retailing , then Athletico Whaddon need have no fear of ending up on the slab . |
| 2 | For that matter , all of us are familiar with the experience of trying , and perhaps managing , to guess the author of a piece of writing simply on the evidence of his language . |
| 3 | It is interesting to speculate on the likely effect of opting out on the present independent schools . |
| 4 | at the Gateshead National Garden Festival from 1989 to 1990 that was alright , then last September 1990 and with the end of the festival in site I had a dread of going back on the dole as I already spent seven years on the dole previously through no-fault of my own . |
| 5 | These pilots invariably demonstrate the basic response of pushing forwards on the stick and keeping it there . |
| 6 | I feel done a bit of sewing up on the shoulders and then it 's well on the way . |
| 7 | Advisers constantly complain of lost files at the Department of Social Security , staff indifference and the difficulty of getting through on the telephone . |
| 8 | Ranulf and Maltote disappeared like will-o'-the-wisps whilst Corbett received one of Maeve 's lectures about the need to rest , as well as the dangers of charging about on the King 's business in weather not fit for the worst of sinners . |
| 9 | I do have to admit , though , that when I 'm working away from home it 's not a case of going out on the town — but going straight to bed to catch up on a good night 's sleep . |
| 10 | The technique of moving together on the rope is one of the most mistrusted and misused methods of travel in the mountains . |
| 11 | The simple act of starting out on the route from Tunbridge Wells to Bourne End was nevertheless sufficient to call to her mind every detail of what she had seen and heard that afternoon . |
| 12 | Dr Charlton , of the University of Manchester , recommended a policy directive from the Government to put the issue of smoking firmly on the agenda . |
| 13 | So we need , it 's simply a question of pulling in on the reasons for this , if it 's maternity , it 's suspension , it gives us much more understanding than simply globally assuming everybody who 's away is sick . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , there is no question of clamping down on the private shabashniki because they provide a valuable service , especially in the construction industry , which costs the state nothing . |
| 15 | Although the question of autonomy was a complex and confusing one , Hornby contributed to the process of keeping seriously on the agenda that part of the CNAA 's role which involved delegating responsibility within the limits currently imposed on the CNAA , and expanding those limits as it became possible . |
| 16 | In charge of flying off on the carrier was Wg.Cdr . |
| 17 | Die Grünen has been described by Petra Kelly as an ‘ anti-party party ’ , and getting into bed with them might be a guarantee of ending up on the floor . |
| 18 | Born Alfredo James Pacino he is still haunted by memories of growing up on the mean streets of New York 's South Bronx where his street gang pals called him The Actor . |
| 19 | Course it 's worth bothering because a lot of young men that was unemployed come down to the school where I 'm the caretaker and they said , we know that you 're running short is there any chance of getting in on the scene ? |
| 20 | They will have little chance of doing so on the Bill in the circumstances in which the Leader of the House has introduced the guillotine . |
| 21 | For Jeanne Favret-Saada ( 1980 ) , who set out to study witchcraft in the French Bocage , the only means of moving in on the discourse she hoped to understand was to become part of it . |
| 22 | A collection of classic boats from the golden age of messing about on the river will go up for auction this weekend . |
| 23 | Do n't make the mistake of concentrating just on the immediate problem . |
| 24 | It was less easy to convince herself that the thought of lying down on the bench with fitzAlan , with hardly a stitch of clothing between them , did n't scare the wits out of her . |
| 25 | Mothers who had left jobs in the middle of the socio-economic spectrum were most exposed to the risk of falling back on the ladder , particularly if they left a long gap in their employment record . |
| 26 | The 29-year-old Motherwell man , who has made an art form of fouling up on the big occasion , acknowledged that he too came close to calling it a day after the Olympics . |
| 27 | The RPR wants to increase decentralisation , which , it claims , has hitherto largely been a matter of spending more on the regions , rather than of devolving decision-making power . |
| 28 | It may have been ignored since 1981 and left to make do with just two small engines ( and thus no way of cashing in on the ever-increasing popularity of the hot supermini in Britain ) but all that 's changed now . |
| 29 | Here 's a tough but effective way of honing in on the most meaningful elements of your life . |
| 30 | The women had got into the way of going up on the deck every evening . |