Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He vehemently dislikes smoking and while they were together she stopped smoking and cut down on drinking . |
| 2 | Stop smoking and cut down on sugary snacks . |
| 3 | Did you know it 's a replica of one of the charms said to be over a thousand years old and dug up on the island of Bornholm ? ’ |
| 4 | Under the old community the harvest was the climax of the rural year , not merely an incident in the more mechanical and depersonalized round on the farm as it has become today . |
| 5 | ‘ And if one man did just what you say is impossible and slipped in on the darkside ? ’ |
| 6 | Keep it simple and build up on it |
| 7 | If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind . |
| 8 | The times of retiring and getting up on the next morning were noted on the diary sheet and marked electronically by pushing the appropriate buttons on the recording unit . |
| 9 | Just got in , well it were n't , it had n't gone right the way through , we just turned it over and chu , chucked the sheets and blankets back on once they 'd stopped smouldering and got back on it ! |
| 10 | It is not the looming tyranny of prefab structures , square and scowling down on treeless roads of cracked cement , strangled shrubberies and dull-hued minis all in a row . |
| 11 | ‘ I am aware of these people who are professionally famous and turn up on all these clever panel shows , but I think Have I Got News For You is watched by a really wide spectrum of people and that is a big part of its appeal . |
| 12 | They were prints from some medieval Book of Hours that William had had framed and stuck up on the walls . |
| 13 | One side of my trousers was soaked with dew , and there were mud stains on my shoes ; my hair was short and stood up on end , and there was a leaf in my ear . |
| 14 | One hot night he came home drunk and lay down on the flower-bed in the garden just outside the studio and fell fast asleep . |
| 15 | In Sailors Three ( 1940 , Three Cockeyed Sailors in US ) , Tommy Trinder and his companions get drunk and end up on a German ship which , more by mishap than demon cunning , they occupy and deliver to their commander . |
| 16 | ‘ I could stay overnight and drop in on her . ’ |
| 17 | The reduction in the numbers visiting the gardens has allowed the grass to remain green and cut down on the amount of litter dropped and graffiti scribbled . |
| 18 | Colour some fondant icing ( about 225g/8oz ) green and roll out on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to a similar-sized rectangle , and use to cover the cake drum , smoothing on and trimming the edges . |
| 19 | Way was forced to quit the Swiss Open and missed out on a chance to claw his way back into the Ryder Cup reckoning . |
| 20 | If it serves the nation , well and good ; if it is inefficient and falls down on its job , the nation must sec that things are put right . |
| 21 | Constantly at war with my vertigo , I decided not to be pathetic and strode off on the flat , step-like slabs that top the crest of the ridge . |
| 22 | Yet there are strong amusements along the way , not least those provided by Zita herself , who although dead and stretched out on an autopsy table , still has one more shock in store . |
| 23 | Skipper stopped dead and looked down on me with a definite ‘ What on earth are you doing there ? ’ look on his face . |
| 24 | Then he stopped dead and sat back on his haunches . |
| 25 | I 'd be more interesting to you if I were dead and lain out on your slab . |
| 26 | ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’ |