Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] on some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition for this prize is based on submission of an essay , paper or review on some aspect of analytical spectroscopy suitable for publication in the RSC 's Analytical Proceedings . |
| 2 | The ancestral lady was not , however , to be put off , and hardly a week went by when she did not telephone or call on some pretext , bringing her gardener in tow to take cuttings or dig up bulbs , and keeping up her barrage of accusing questions , inquiring , for instance , in her peremptory manner , what Jane was going to ‘ do about ’ the long-neglected yew hedge . |
| 3 | He was booted off and landed on some fencing , causing great damage to his testicular region . |
| 4 | Prepare fresh pineapple in cubes or chunks or slices and pour on some gin . |
| 5 | He went down to the docks to buy a lorryload of timber going cheaply , had the building sandblasted and refitted , and insisted on some adjustment of the merchandise to suit the customer profile . |
| 6 | But this huntsman , for all the energy and élan of his posture , is maimed : his crippled right leg is bent back at the knee and supported on some sort of crutch . |
| 7 | ’ British pop evolved from R&B dance culture , but while the working classes were coming home from the factory and putting on some Motown , the people who now run record companies were at university listening to Genesis or Peter Frampton or whatever — their only contact with pop culture was Gary Glitter or Sweet . |
| 8 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 9 | Let's go and sit on some bench . ’ |
| 10 | The passages it cancelled had , in any case , as in certain programmes , not been lost but stored on some limbo disc from whence they must now be retrieved . |