Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is a view you are after , then better to go to the top of the Pic du Midi than remain down on the col , for from there the prospect has for long been famous , especially to the north over the plains and , on a good day , westward to the Atlantic . |
| 2 | Nor is it necessarily fatal if you give notice to terminate your contract and work that notice out , rather than walking out on the spot . |
| 3 | Do you think perhaps the problem is that , through no fault of their own , they spend far too much time in the police station doing other work perhaps , than going out on the beat ? |
| 4 | I want nothing more than to walk along on the darkened plain , the moon as strong as winter sunlight in London , speaking Maa with this man . |
| 5 | The baby has gone past the sell-by date given by the hospital , but there is not a lot I can do except dig in on the front-line . |
| 6 | It 's much better than standin' out on the cobbles like we used ter do . |
| 7 | Neighbours say he has kept a low profile since moving in , prefering to stay by the pool than go out on the town . |
| 8 | Freud 's hypotheses are not upheld : if the child is father to the man it is for reasons other than missing out on the breast and a too early acquaintance with the potty . |
| 9 | Senior ministers and officials are urgently considering cutting back on the number of nuclear warheads carried by Britain 's powerful submarines . |
| 10 | She debated whether to sit down on the carpet for a while but shook herself and rang the bell . |
| 11 | Lady Bell wrote of women in Middlesbrough in 1907 being ‘ curiously devoid of public spirit or interest in outside affairs ’ , and some 40 years later , Slater and Woodside described their female respondents as looking out on the world from their homes ‘ as from a beleaguered fortress ’ . |
| 12 | The figures quoted in these illustrations comply with the rates of return ( and other factors ) as set out on the LAUTRO bases , the higher illustration representing a future rate of return of 13% per annum and the lower illustration representing a future rate of return of 8 ½%; per annum . |
| 13 | Call upon Councillor to move the adoption of the cycle of meetings for 1991 ninety two as set out on the Council Agenda , together with amendment C standing in his name . |
| 14 | can we accept the recommendation as laid out on the first page of the |
| 15 | As well as cashing in on the publicity , Hughes hoped the judge might be persuaded to grant Mitchum parole or postpone his jail term — if it came to that — until he had finished the film . |
| 16 | Anthea lay as though dancing on the hot folded sand , the pale , lively hair curved as though blown out on the duck egg blue towel on which her lovely profile rested , the skin darker than the tossed gold , the marvellous bones picked out by clear-cut shadows and glitter of sweat . |