Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [conj] [noun] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Precise figures are hard to come by , because many European discount chains are privately owned , but no one doubts that they are taking a growing share of the $140 billion or so that Europeans spend on food each year . |
| 2 | In 1986 a report commissioned by the Home Office estimated that prison officers worked an average of 16 hours per week overtime , but that prisons could be run safely and efficiently if officers worked on average eight hours less but with revised shift systems and working practices . |
| 3 | Track descends ; 150 yds before bottom of slope , where track bends to the left and immediately before copse begins on right , cross ditch on right and bear half left on other side , keeping close to copse on your left . |
| 4 | The two of them clung together , soggily , hugging closer and closer until Rachel knocked on the door and asked them to come out . |
| 5 | Terraces , yes , but only if supporters stand on their heads ? |
| 6 | Although at first sight , therefore , it seems that there was a strong age-related gradient in the overall net income of elderly people , the effect was largely accounted for by the dissolution of married-couple households when husbands died , leaving widows significantly worse off not only than married couples , but also than men living on their own . |