Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary of the Cabinet , Sir Robert Armstrong , who had stonewalled successfully on Mrs Thatcher 's behalf during the Westland inquiries , was sent to Australia in a vain attempt to stop the book being published there . |
| 2 | Perhaps , perhaps they 've arranged to go somewhere on Saturday . |
| 3 | Although Indian Tamils lived mostly on estates , their sheer numbers had a significant social effect . |
| 4 | It says the two complete kernels will be able to sit side-by-side on Windows systems and run their respective applications . |
| 5 | It says the two complete kernels will be able to sit side-by-side on Windows systems and run their respective applications . |
| 6 | Lodgement till on slopes and ‘ crag and tail ’ landforms are developed locally on North Uist , Benbecula and South Uist . |
| 7 | Opinion differs widely on value of these methods . |
| 8 | And anyway , when you think of what goes on on telly now , if it was true we 'd all be raving . ’ |
| 9 | Vote for us on Thursday , said Major , and the recovery goes on on Friday . |
| 10 | After the elections charges were levelled that the federal government had intervened secretly on behalf of USNO in an attempt to undermine Kitangan . |
| 11 | They concentrate mostly on self-denial , with no cakes , sweets , bread , chocolate , sugar , potatoes , crisps , and so on . |
| 12 | One day a statue will be erected somewhere on O'Connell Street to bear testament to this fact . |
| 13 | Boswell 's description of the location corresponds with today 's scenery : wild heathland has altered little on Skye : ‘ The country around is a black dreary moor on all sides , except to the sea-coast , towards which there is a view through a valley … the place itself is green ground , being well drained , by means of a deep glen on each side , in both of which there runs a rivulet with a good quantity of water , forming several cascades which make a considerable appearance and sound . ’ |
| 14 | Willie crept nervously on stage with the prompt book in his hand and was joined by the others . |
| 15 | ‘ But nobody plays badly on purpose and with a very hard spell coming up , we just have to dig in and hope we can turn things round . ’ |
| 16 | Fairfax and Claudia sit down on camp chairs . |
| 17 | Sit down on daddy 's lap . |
| 18 | Fortunately Jack 's humour was heard only on rehearsal although listeners might have liked it even if Laurence Gilliam did not . |
| 19 | And yet they eventually did talk about ‘ the leg ’ and then ‘ the disease ’ and Iain heard the word ‘ Spinabifida ’ ; a word previously heard only on TV when charities were appealing for money . |
| 20 | The policemen push down on Tepilit 's shoulders as the judge takes his seat to indicate that he , too , should sit . |
| 21 | DRAWING IN on time and to budget , Bovis Construction have handed over Waterloo International , the UK 's first international rail terminus to serve channel tunnel passengers . |
| 22 | London share prices closed slightly lower , recouping early losses which sent the FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares 31.7 points down on fears of recession . |
| 23 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 24 | She got down on hands and knees to sweep away crumbs , and in the gaslight she looked paler than ever . |
| 25 | The three brothers crept in on tiptoe to leave jugs of iced lemon juice by my bedside . |
| 26 | Even with the modern partnership , no very satisfactory solution to this problem has been found , and the most one can say is that the partners have an equitable interest , often described as a lien , which floats over the partnership assets throughout the duration of the firm , although it crystallises only on dissolution . |
| 27 | You can do it to some extent through the public sector , but one of the worrying things I find about the present situation with this growth of generations , the clamp down on building — less than a hundred thousand houses , I think , completed in the U K last year — my estimate is that we should be building about two hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 28 | CLAMP DOWN ON CAR COSTS |
| 29 | ( These included 13,000 based in Panama and an extra 2,000 troops flown in on Dec. 23 to restore order in Panama City . ) |
| 30 | He says they can even zoom in on tax discs to see if they 're valid . |