Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.

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1 The former James Bond star got stagefright only weeks before the curtain was due to go up on the original West End show and made a shock exit .
2 And then , out of the blue , as she was getting ready for bed on the evening before Kirsty was due to go off on holiday , Mrs Aitken tapped on Shiona 's bedroom door .
3 ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own .
4 Runswick Bay , a multi-million pound investment by Yorkshire Television , is due to go out on the network five days a week next year .
5 Canon Wright said : ‘ I believe that to go back on the progress that was made in the convention would be a retrograde step , for what is going to replace it ? ’
6 It was pleasant to stroll around on an evening such as this , thinking productively about the work which would make his name ( and his fortune ) and restore to him the sense of achievement he had so greatly enjoyed as an undergraduate journalist and Union wit .
7 Its cause is uncertain — it is also found even if we do not eat then — but it means that it is often possible to catch up on lost sleep by taking a nap at this time .
8 I mean the the stuff 's due to come in on Friday , he reckons it 'll get it 's the fourth on Friday is n't it ?
9 Back in the Company 's suite after debriefing — ‘ You 've proved , ’ said Nils without praise — Jezrael was free to go out on the town .
10 Yeah so I mean with , with younger people it 's , although th they 're still not , it 's still not going to be easy-easy er like with the older people , there 's still the , the disturbance element that in years to come they are not going to have this to fall back on because by the time that they retire it 's just not going to exist .
11 It 's so much easier to fall back on ‘ That 's the way things are done ’ or ‘ It 's the way I was brought up . ’
12 As a young person , I am often quite afraid to go out on the streets in case I am approached by one of these grey-haired vandals and informed how much worse the world is these days or interrogated as to why young people do n't have any respect anymore .
13 Well can the divisional quality managers be prepared to report back on this next Monday .
14 If he 's done anything really wicked I do n't think HMG would be prepared to go out on a limb on his behalf .
15 I 've only got to get changed and put some make up on .
16 Right , I 'll put some make up on Just read them straight out the book ca n't you ?
17 Free to smell again the sweat on the brow of the bourse ; free to bask in the slipstream of wide-bodied jets ; free to sit in on the counsels of the alleged good and the alleged great .
18 Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac .
19 This came about on 18 December , when Mr. Mason accepted the post of Assistant Manager and Engineer to the three companies .
20 Although the right had advocated foreign withdrawal they were well aware that the retention of some American troops was needed to prevent communist domination — ‘ Under Shtikov 's proposal , [ a ] strong Korean Communist Army in [ the ] North of Korea would be free to sweep down on the virtually unarmed south and quickly over-run it . ’
21 It 's funny to look back on it now and think , ‘ What the hell was all that about ? ' ’
22 Do you want another lie down on the settee ?
23 And as he closed the window of his room against the night frost , he was afraid to look out on the hills in case he heard angels sing and the other folk in the home would dismiss the story because of the two , long drawn out drinks he had before sleep closed down another Christmas Day .
24 Arguably this cuts down on women 's contact with other people .
25 This cuts down on the suspense and Ballantyne sees it as being comic .
26 I hope that this gets back on the road because clearly people are starting to put things in the proper places for recycling .
27 Bills accepted by banks designated as ‘ eligible ’ banks by the Bank of England become first-class bills which the Bank of England is willing to deal in on the market .
28 Oh it took some sorting out on the next morning .
29 As I banked to port to make a full beam attack on the nearest 88 I sighted the 109s coming down on the other three .
30 if anyone 's interested there 's another coming out on marriage , so if you want to write a poem , send it off .
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