Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , oh dear , in antithesis Freud , Jung , Fromm and the women 's movement slowly crept up on us . |
| 2 | Stand with the feet together and slowly raise up on tiptoes , then lower the heels down again . |
| 3 | Right sit up on the chair and we 'll read the story of the jumble sale . |
| 4 | The control panel is discreetly tucked away on the front and is totally invisible when the spa is in use . |
| 5 | There was n't nothing wrong with it — it was just a little bashed up on one end , that 's all . |
| 6 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 7 | In an aftermath when the relentless and remorseless inhumanity of the mill owner and his magisterial friends passed into local lore , an attempt was made to assassinate Cartwright and one was successfully carried out on another mill owner , William Horsfall , who had boasted his intent to ride up to his saddle girths in the blood of Luddites . |
| 8 | At first he left that aspect of the practice to David Bryce , his partner from the early 1840s , and then , after his move to Stratton Street , London in 1844 , finally abandoned it altogether to concentrate exclusively on country houses . |
| 9 | Left and Right differed only on the nature of this conflict . |
| 10 | ‘ Though will you be all right driving back on your own ? ’ she fretted . |
| 11 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 12 | The cost of choice for the majority is the absence of choice for the minority who will never afford to buy , … ‘ the Right to Buy ’ and growth of owner-occupation are effectively carried out on the backs of poor people . |
| 13 | More generally , it remains true that the severity of the Monopolies Commission 's findings mean that the board is necessarily placed somewhat on the defensive about its investment appraisals , and will find all its investment assumptions scrutinised with some suspicion . |
| 14 | A few combinations scrambled over only to fall apart on landing . |
| 15 | In each case there can be no doubt that the advantages offered by the trust over the civil-law method were significant : performance in specie was a real possibility in each case ; that this was so depended entirely on the fact that trusts were subject to a different procedural order . |
| 16 | Dispel notions of lethargic ponies plodding nose to tail , only speeding up on the way back to the stables : trail riding can be both challenging and exciting . |
| 17 | She was frightened and depressed when they took her into hospital for the operation on December 22 , but she was fit enough to go home on Christmas Day . |
| 18 | ‘ Now they are working hard to get me fit enough to go back on the list — and they 're the only ones giving me hope , ’ says Anthony . |
| 19 | In Lakatos 's reply to Kuhn , all turns finally on a distinction between progressive and degenerating research programmes . |
| 20 | It thought about Daine , the only human being who had made an impact on his century large enough to impinge significantly on Yggdrasil 's consciousness . |
| 21 | I found I wanted to support Sam , even though he 's old enough to sit up on his own now . ’ |
| 22 | Are you awake enough to sit here on your own for a bit ? ’ |
| 23 | We will fail to understand the significance of terrestrial zodiacs If we merely pick up on the generally insignificant evidence for their physical reality . |
| 24 | It is n't good enough to fall back on a somewhat arbitrary list of subjects without specific aims . |
| 25 | ‘ Citizen ’ John , ‘ a little Stout Man with dark cropt Hair ’ , carried with him a dangerous reputation as an atheist , a mob orator and a Jacobin , and in 1794 had spent several months in the Tower of London before being tried and acquitted on a charge of high treason.l– His relationship with Coleridge had hitherto depended entirely on their animated and frequently argumentative correspondence . |
| 26 | HP appears to have pretty much given up on its own object-oriented New Wave environment for Unix . |
| 27 | Notice that there is no seismic zone along the east coast of South America , the continental crust merely sits passively on top of the mantle . |
| 28 | I think legislation is merely catching up on some policies . |
| 29 | The idea is very possible , but would be better carried out on a factory produced four door ( which should be available soon ) as adding extra doors and pillars will increase the cost of conversion enormously . |
| 30 | Or they can be plotted against the fitted ( here smoothed ) values , to look for indications of non-constant variability ; if the residuals get bigger as the smoothed values get bigger , this usually means that the the analysis would be better carried out on another scale . |