Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was n't nothing wrong with it — it was just a little bashed up on one end , that 's all . |
| 2 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | HP appears to have pretty much given up on its own object-oriented New Wave environment for Unix . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 10 | Jackie agreed , so I asked him why constructors like Mayer and Ecclestone so looked down on drivers . |
| 11 | This was just as well because the washing was not only hung up on poles above but spread out upon drying racks in the street itself . |
| 12 | Bite Three : ‘ A Prime Minister and a Cabinet so busy trying to recreate the present in the image of the past that they have entirely missed out on the opportunities for the future . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I get so fed up on a train that after five minutes I 'm howling with boredom . |
| 14 | An opinion was expressed that such a purchaser under a suspensory condition ( that the money be only handed over on the certificate being got by the purchaser ) is not necessarily committing a violation of the Act , " assuming that he shows proper diligence in endeavouring to obtain the certificate , and is acting throughout in bona fide " : per Lord Trayner , ibid . |
| 15 | They both jumped when , with a loud crash , a two-storey house suddenly caved in on itself . |
| 16 | I were just so psyched up on Wednesday and then I had to go in on the Friday before so I did n't |
| 17 | Beyond that I believe we can not go , although there are occasionally tantalizing groups of poems on related themes , either brought together by the editor/printer or composed as deliberate variations on a theme , and perhaps copied out on a ‘ sheet ’ of paper , folio size , folded ( which we know was a unit of composition and occasionally payment in Elizabethan poetry and drama ) . |
| 18 | Mild defects only shown up on sophisticated psychological testing are common in people with AIDS , or who are unwell as a result of HIV infection . |
| 19 | Diving below the dusky water 's surface I see twenty chairs or so strewn about on the pool floor . |
| 20 | So if you hate the theory so much , how come you 're so boned up on it ? |
| 21 | Sabyasachi Mukerjee was appointed Chief Justice of India with effect from Dec. 18 after the retirement of E. S. Venkataramiah , who himself was only sworn in on June 17 but who had reached the retirement age of 65 . |
| 22 | We gazed enraptured at the city of Bath from the train as it drew in to the station — it was all laid out on the slopes of Lansdown like an aerial map of a moon landscape . |
| 23 | Well I i they had the mascot from the it would have only gone out on their home territory . |
| 24 | Boulders constantly swept down on either side of them . |
| 25 | In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed . |
| 26 | They avoid making enemies , and so cut down on threats to themselves in the office jungle . |
| 27 | Speeding up urban traffic could save 10 per cent of fuel , and so cut back on carbon dioxide . |
| 28 | Specimens were gently spread out on a flat surface , flooded with 2.5% glutaraldehyde buffered in 0.1 M sodium cacodylate solution , and fixed for four to six hours . |
| 29 | This will be the reason for the oddity of ( 54 ) where one such basic property is related to its noun through assignment , by contrast with the normality of ( 55 ) where it is given as one of the initial identifying properties of the subject entity ( there is obviously no difference of truth-value between the two ) : ( 54 ) ? a ladle which was heavy came down on his skull ( 55 ) a heavy ladle came down on his skull Thus , other things being equal we expect properties of such basic sorts to be used predominantly for identification by ordinary qualification . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a pity we do n't ever stay here long — we are constantly sent out on missions . |