Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me , sexuality is romance and love and poetry and beauty , not picking somebody up on the street and using each other then telling them to fuck off and burning them with a cigarette . |
| 2 | that er you 're not you know , take her back on a Sunday but you 're not picking her up on a Friday , I said she 's got a train pass make her come home |
| 3 | They 're not expecting her in on Monday then ? |
| 4 | He murmured something to the effect that youth must be served , ‘ John Donne ’ , but the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation . |
| 5 | For instance , it has been noted that when ‘ parents are depressed and irritable they do not take it out on all their children to the same extent : often one is more or less scapegoated . |
| 6 | I 'm not taking it out on you ! |
| 7 | I assume he did not pick it up on Southfields Station ! ’ |
| 8 | But here they are , at the start of chapter 16 , wishing aloud that God had not passed them by on that dreadful night in Egypt , accusing Moses , accusing Moses , of bringing them into the desert to die ! |
| 9 | I can conduct in front of the mirror , but if I was conducting an orchestra and something went wrong I could not put it back on the rails again . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm definitely not putting it back on today , but I will put it back on . |
| 11 | As he quickly washed off Friday night 's mud , he made a mental note not to take it out on the machine next time he got drunk . |
| 12 | I think , a lot of people see the stray dogs problem as a big problem , certainly if people have decided to partake of pets , they have a responsibility to look after them and not throw them out on the streets . |
| 13 | at the back I 'm not leaving anything out on top here . |
| 14 | ‘ And get yourself a good shoe designer and a good cutter , make your own shoes , begin an emporium instead of just importing and selling the leather , at least then you would not find yourself out on a limb in a man 's world . ‘ |
| 15 | Members of staff have actually come to me and said they did n't want her in on the interviews . |
| 16 | ca n't throw anything out on a stormy night |
| 17 | She could n't catch it up on her bike , that was certain . |
| 18 | with their help and medication , I mean you do n't sling them out on the street |
| 19 | And we , we just stood aside from that and said to the employer , look here , if you do n't bring him back on Monday , erm I 'm afraid there 'll be nobody here tomorrow right . |
| 20 | Even promising young athletes do n't bring us out on a winter 's day ; we do have little tours of inspection , occasionally . ’ |
| 21 | Get help if you ca n't sort yourselves out on your own . |
| 22 | A problem , because I do n't want a full-blooded plant-growing lighting set-up — in fact I could n't fit one in on the budget and in any case the undergravel and media I 'm using might not be conducive to growth . |
| 23 | No the police wo n't move us in on until we 're halfway here . |
| 24 | Once a Met Officer remarked cheerfully to me ( from the warmth and light of the office ) , that the rats were much more frightened of me than I was of them , but I noticed that he did n't take me up on my suggestion that he should come out with me and see for himself . |
| 25 | You do n't take me up on anything — you just repeat it in a different order . |
| 26 | and even if I ca n't take it up on the day , I could probably take it up the night before . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , he need n't take it out on me . |
| 28 | So since his old fella died and he could n't take it out on him , he 's taken it out on his young missis and the young ‘ uns . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You ca n't take it out on the child , ’ she said . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I 'm on edge , but I should n't take it out on you — you ca n't be exactly jumping for joy at the thought of seeing Garry with another woman . ’ |