Example sentences of "[verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are a reasonably good rider and can get experienced help , you may enjoy bringing on a just broken four-year old — though youngsters with potential ( whether obvious or in the current owner 's imagination ) can carry big price tags . |
| 2 | Paul went on his way in rising anger , fearful of bringing on a bad head by it . |
| 3 | For surely someone as gifted as that deserved all that could be done for him : and ‘ the gift ’ put it above any gossip about an overkeen schoolmaster bringing on a bright pupil and overrode any chatter about the besotted nature of his devotion . |
| 4 | Dadda only smoked when he was contented and then he would get through forty or fifty a day , bringing on a cough and staining his fingers yellow-brown . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ he said finally , helping her to walk with Matey 's assistance , ‘ I have heard of the ladies ’ sewing circle accused of many things , but never of bringing on a swoon . |
| 6 | The F T Associates which is er includes the Economist in Spain was up a lot and Westminster Press was er was down , but of course Westminster Press took a major redundancy charge , they were also bringing on a new plant at Brighton and therefore running two plants simultaneously which is very costly er and they launched on Sunday . |
| 7 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
| 8 | She sits on a little wooden bench , and seems to be engaged in animated conversation with the empty space beside her . |
| 9 | His picture sits on a little wooden cabinet in the lounge , a young man wearing a denim jacket and a hint of a smile . |
| 10 | He goes on a bit … ’ |
| 11 | Perhaps it goes on a little too long and the sweetness can tend to cloy , but it was beautifully played . |
| 12 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
| 13 | It goes on a lot better than Amy 's . |
| 14 | Goes on a bit thick . |
| 15 | So you 've got the children tomorrow lunchtime , you 've got the band tomorrow evening , but the library exhibition goes on a bit longer ? |
| 16 | When she first begins to talk , she uses two different types of speech : egocentric speech , a kind of monologue , when she chatters on without bothering to know whom she is speaking to or even whether they are listening ; and socialized speech , a sign of growing maturity and decentring , when she tries to carry on a conversation , reacting to what the other person says . |
| 17 | No conscious effort is required , and it is sometimes possible to carry on a non-relevant activity , e.g. holding a conversation , whilst performing the activity . |
| 18 | Once authorisation to carry on a banking business has been granted by the home member state to a bank in accordance with the Community 's essential requirements , the Community legislative approach is to require the host country in which the bank may wish to provide cross-border services or establish a branch to recognise the validity of that authorisation , and to allow it to do so without making additional ‘ authorisation ’ requirements to the bank . |
| 19 | They may argue as a point of fact that , to carry on a taxable ‘ business ’ ( or ‘ economic activity ’ — the terminology in the EC 's Sixth Directive , Art 4(1) and ( 2 ) ) and so use the partial exemption rules , the person must do more than just sell a mere , say , £5 worth of food , drink , tobacco , matches , magazines , books , postcards , camera films , audio or video tapes , cassettes , compact discs , records , sunglasses or combs each year . |
| 20 | He faced a prison sentence , and in his eagerness to keep his client out of prison , defending QC Mr Christmas Humphreys claimed that Trevor had been overworking and was drinking ‘ to give him the energy to carry on a task that was almost more than he could bear ’ . |
| 21 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 22 | If they were found worthy they were given help , including cash and the tools to carry on a trade , help in finding a job and regular visitation and advice until they could ‘ stand on their own feet ’ . |
| 23 | The benefit of planning permission to carry on a business from premises is normally lost by a subsequent change of use of those premises . |
| 24 | Treaty , freely to carry on a business . |
| 25 | Institutions authorised by the Bank of England to carry on a deposit-taking business in this country are required to make contributions to the Deposit Protection Fund as levied from time to time by the Deposit Protection Board . |
| 26 | She did not want to carry on a lengthy conversation with this garrulous dumb woman ; she wanted to go to bed and hug Edward Bear . |
| 27 | It is pretty difficult to carry on a conversation like that , let alone write a scientific paper . |
| 28 | It 's a peculiar way to carry on a war , is n't it ? |
| 29 | In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises . |
| 30 | This argument was rejected on the basis that , from its formation , Newco 's wider purpose was to carry on a trade and that was why it was acquiring the business . |