Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura cried , struggling to sit up on the wide leather rear seat of the large car , where she had been so unceremoniously tossed only a moment before . |
| 2 | I could feel my heart going boom-ba-di-boom — imagined my heart when it was dead , all its auricles and ventricles shrinking and wrinkling like burst balloons after my head got bashed in on the rocks . |
| 3 | We 'll also want to sit in on the cochon gris 's ceremony tonight , if there is one . ’ |
| 4 | I 've had two or three I think , very rarely do we find them and shapers tend to go out on a limb they tend to want to lead they tend to want to control they want people to follow their way they do tend to be the people that dig in and say you know this is the way we do it . |
| 5 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 6 | Mr , do you want to come back on the point made on the other side of the room about your arbitrary selection of building rates ? |
| 7 | I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total . |
| 8 | LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available . |
| 9 | Danny has to go down on the floor , put his hands on hips and go , evening all ! |
| 10 | The Westcoast mainline railway runs through the village of Elvanfoot , and locals say the work which Scotrail needs to carry out on a bridge will cut off them off entirely . |
| 11 | It 's 7pm and you ca n't wait to go out on the town . |
| 12 | Well he said that does n't give you long to go out on the razzle . |
| 13 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 14 | I should need to go in on the eleventh to clear up I expect . |
| 15 | Gran has joined in on the act . |
| 16 | Now you 'll see him in a moment , he this guy driving he wants to go off on a slip road . |
| 17 | This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote . |
| 18 | WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats . |
| 19 | In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time . |
| 20 | If they want to come along on the day and enjoy themselves , that 's fine ; we 're even providing a bouncy castle , so children can bounce for the rainforests at the Banbury walk . |
| 21 | ‘ Now that we only have the one line , we want to catch up on the backlog of maintenance and repairs . |
| 22 | Ishida Aerospace has picked up on an Eighties Cold War idea generated by the US military , which has financed the design , construction and flight testing of a propeller-driven VTOL plane , namely the Osprey , whose features were shown in your illustration . |
| 23 | He wanted to roar out James 's name , his own name , to scream for help , he tried to pull up on the sill but his fingers scrabbled uselessly and he dropped back . |
| 24 | Right if you have a look at what has come up on the screen , on the screen . |
| 25 | From Wolhusen the circular itinerary now continues south on road 10 which has come in on the left ( ie east from Luzern . |
| 26 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 27 | THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to royal biographer Andrew Morton . |
| 28 | THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to controversial royal biographer Andrew Morton . |
| 29 | Other than the exemptions described above , tax has to be paid on any capital gain that has built up on an asset you give away during your lifetime . |
| 30 | Dick Allan 's charge , a useful hurdler rated in the mid 120s , has crept in on a mark of 86 over fences after an unenterprisingly-ridden second at Catterick . |