Example sentences of "that [vb -s] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Romantically associated with the coming of spring , their half-hidden blooms offer a special charm that plays on our inquisitive nature . |
| 2 | The most widely remembered is the pithy and witty exchange that plays on Ben 's alienation from the materialistic world of his parents and their friends . |
| 3 | Standard features can include items such as leather trimmed steering wheel , one-touch electric window controls , exterior temperature indicator , electrically adjustable door mirrors and even a specially-shaped garment case that stows on the underside of the rear parcel shelf . |
| 4 | She has an obsession with the drug that verges on monomania . |
| 5 | The less thinking and interpreting that goes on the better . |
| 6 | The duo have been busy recently preparing their first London exhibition ( work in progress shown above , middle picture ) , a display that goes on show this month at the City Racing Gallery . |
| 7 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 8 | ( Very occasionally we have a meeting that goes on later than this and if/when this happens I 'll let you know afterwards . ) |
| 9 | you , you ca n't carry , oh where 's the think that goes on the back ? , oh there , there we are , you ca n't carry the milk pet back because we ca n't put your foot rest up high like we can with the front one , so there 's nothing to balance it on , and if you drop it , the big plastic bottle will burst open , wo n't it ? put this rain hood |
| 10 | Well , one that goes on your shoulder . |
| 11 | It 's a car that builds on the 25 's strong points and makes huge advances in refinement , build quality and styling in its own right . |
| 12 | This is a budget Chairman that builds on the achievements of the last four years , the care for our schools and it takes into account that the future will not be as rosy as we would like and allows for contingencies . |
| 13 | And all this from the label that insists on bringing us KWS … |
| 14 | Perhaps one can have a personal ioniser that clips on the lapel or the belt . |
| 15 | It is , in fact , the now redundant oil-fired electric power station that sits on Bankside next to the site of Sam Wanamaker 's new Globe Theatre . |
| 16 | Square Face : Wear a headpiece that sits on the back of your head and opt for an understated veil style , although your face shape will carry a long veil beautifully . |
| 17 | It includes an ultra-sonic head tracking device that sits on top of the monitor and lightweight three-dimensional goggles . |
| 18 | It 's a high-level application programming interface that sits on a Unix-based personal computer equipped with call processing hardware . |
| 19 | Moreover , the equipment that sits on the manager 's desk is all that is required — the computer 's intelligence is housed within the one unit . |
| 20 | Monte Samana is his , I know that now , and he deserves his profits , because he has made a holiday place that sits on the side of the hill as though it were set there by the Spaniards themselves , the Andalusians and the descendants of the Moors . ’ |
| 21 | Other accessories are the intarsia carriage ( AG20 ) for picture knitting ; the transfer carriage ( RT1 ) for transferring stitches from the ribber to the main bed and the Automatic Linker ( SC3 ) — this is not a large piece of equipment , but a small carriage that fits on the main bed . |
| 22 | The compact telescope , which is very small and can be mounted on a ring that fits on the finger , is useful in activities which require mobility and can be helpful in identifying street names and bus numbers . |
| 23 | But terrorists do not need the power , precision and elegance of a high-yield weapon that fits on a missile . |
| 24 | Take half the blue fondant and form it into a cone shape that fits on top of the cake . |
| 25 | That 's the bit that joins on one side of the main entrance area ? |
| 26 | [ History ] is not rigorous because it always proceeds by faults and corrections , because it is not in any way a universal schema but a unique adventure that unfolds on the basis of prehistoric circumstances which constitute in themselves , and in relation to all the objectives and all the practices , a heavy and badly understood legacy of fundamental deviations . |
| 27 | It can either form a thin , skin-like layer of solid lava over the liquid , rather like the skin that develops on custard or boiled milk , or else it develops a rather thick , rubbly surface layer consisting of loose blocks of solidified lava . |
| 28 | An alternative method for isolating advanced ICMs is to allow blastocysts to hatch and outgrow ( see Section 3.5.2 ) and then remove the knot of ICM cells that develops on top of the layer of trophectoderm outgrowth , using a mouth pipette . |
| 29 | He points to a single red blossom that quivers on a nearly invisible thread attached to a garland of synthetic butterflies and rhinestone-dotted flowers — a bizarre piece of headgear so tacky it could only have been custom-made . |
| 30 | This is a large species of eagle owl , hunting the large gerbil that lives on the short grass plains of Serengeti . |