Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Right so we 've got Paul and the three new C P Os who would like to go on some training right
2 ‘ I 've got to work on some stuff for an article , ’ she said .
3 Meanwhile at Our Home the unspeakable ingrates seem bent on some sort of work-to-contract .
4 I vaguely began to meditate on some design .
5 They will have to agree on some type of standard .
6 If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year .
7 But I shall still have to draw on some capital Brenda , nevertheless .
8 Sacha is now well on the road to recovery and is starting to put on some weight .
9 erm the ladies who are a bit obese and get all the sympathy you get all so skin or just skinny and suddenly you try to put on some weight , you just ca n't .
10 The twists and turns of Goldwyn 's life can become tedious , since he was so often fighting the same battles ; and the extent of his involvement in the industry means that Berg continually digresses to enlarge on some aspect of movie history , or introduces us to other personalities as they appear .
11 He had to put on some plaster so there were only three
12 Dada had disappeared on some sort of little prowl of his own .
13 He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron .
14 He had to decide on some action .
15 Even before that I had put on some weight which did n't all drain away during my illness .
16 I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight .
17 Most Latin American countries have embarked on some sort of land reform programme , though these have varied considerably across the region in scope and depth .
18 In the final stage of the process , the children need to decide on some way of presenting their results .
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