Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 2 | No disrespect to my conveyancing brethren but I would n't let them loose on a guilty plea of going the wrong way round a keep left sign . |
| 3 | And forced as she was by circumstances to bring her own dirty and vicious brood to work with her , she took a great pleasure in letting them loose on the two youngest Milligans , deliberately ignoring their torments and teases . |
| 4 | What good is an educational system which fools youngsters into thinking they are much cleverer than they really are and lets them loose on the working world ( not that there 's much work there ) with worthless qualifications ? |
| 5 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 6 | But some , such as the Portuguese man-of-war ( Physalia ) and the velella , have sacs full of gas , which enable them to float on the surface , trailing their poisonous tentacles to catch fish that come to browse in the surface water . |
| 7 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 8 | While this may mean working only one day less per week , that one day may provide a vital breathing space for women like Alice Perkins , working in demanding , pressurised jobs , and it may just allow them to remain on a career path that will take them into positions of power . |
| 9 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 10 | He did not bother to look up when Corbett and Ranulf were ushered in but made a gesture for them to sit on the bench alongside the table while he continued noisily with his meal . |
| 11 | He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ They want me to go on a course , the company runs it , so 's I can demonstrate the new machine . |
| 13 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 14 | When did you ever know me to go on a diet ? |
| 15 | They 're telling me to go on the stage and act , but I ca n't do it , it 's the one thing Mum and Dad are dead set against . ’ |
| 16 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 17 | The idea was for me to go on the high-wire sixty feet above ground — on the shoulders of a Czechoslovakian circus performer . |
| 18 | It 's why Uncle Vernon wanted me to go on the stage . ’ |
| 19 | He handed me a toffee , climbed into his car , beckoned me to sit on the other front seat for a few minutes , and removed the celluloid sidescreen to give us more fresh air . |
| 20 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 21 | A witness says she saw them knock on the door . ’ |
| 22 | But then , most of them relied on the head men , we used to tell them you see , to keep their mouth shut . |
| 23 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 24 | The manager would have had them all in at 8 a.m. , forcing them to try on the latest zipper tops over their Iron Maiden T-shirts , and making them practise slouching around the sales floor trying to look cool in clothes designed to save lives in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 25 | You see , Great-Aunt Jane was a skilled dressmaker and made clothes for quite a number of young ladies in Baldersdale , and it was usual for them to try on the new clothes and have the final fittings in the kitchen . |
| 26 | One longs to give a copy each to ten assorted bus company managers ( leavened with the occasional politician and academic ) and make them wait on a cold dark wet night in a vandalised bus shelter for an unpredictable R registered banger . |
| 27 | However , I only put a few dozen sheets of paper through the machine , and two of them caught on the wire loop , which creased the paper and caused ink smudges where the machine was still printing . |
| 28 | They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped . |
| 29 | Filled with a need , a hunger that was as much spiritual as bodily , she wanted them to meet on every level , be one in every sense of the word . |
| 30 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |