Example sentences of "[indef pn] [to-vb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ROS : But we 've got nothing to go on , we 're out on our own . |
| 2 | Er nothing to report on that . |
| 3 | Nothing to report on your mother 's affairs , I 'm afraid . |
| 4 | And I 've nothing to report on the buses or trains . |
| 5 | This is one of the difficulties , getting everyone to agree on erm standards for transmission and standard formats for erm for letters and erm the like . |
| 6 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 7 | I suggest that it would now be best for everyone to concentrate on its merits and on its implementation . |
| 8 | If they want someone to work on their own initiative , don ‘ t be afraid to tell them in your application that you can do that . |
| 9 | Conversely , though , if this Committee instructed groups as it well could that it wanted regular updates on the pay position of this County , and he had to put someone to work on researching them , it would cost you what like that ? |
| 10 | You may be able to get someone to talk on a topic that also features in the textbook so that the video recording would introduce listening comprehension work that linked to a reading task . |
| 11 | In view of the extra expense involved in caring , which is usually even more difficult for someone to afford on a pension , these discrepancies urgently need sorting out . |
| 12 | ‘ It is despicable for someone to play on the fears of ordinary people in this way . |
| 13 | ‘ It is despicable for someone to play on the fears of ordinary people in this way . ’ |
| 14 | In principle it would be quite possible for the study of English poetry to begin in a similar ab initio fashion , except that it would be fruitless for someone to embark on it who did not have at least some familiarity with poetry and a wish to read more . |
| 15 | It is quite reasonable for someone to draw on specific groups and try to understand particular pieces of action , to use a wider theoretical framework in which to place these actions and try to understand them in this way . |
| 16 | If you forced someone to live on nuts and lentils they 'd go roaring on to the European Court of Human Rights or something . ’ |
| 17 | We need someone to speak on the side of public morality . ’ |
| 18 | Somebody to wait on you ! |
| 19 | This man , who told Huy that he only went to the place to drink , never having had a problem when it came to finding a girl , was looking urgently for somebody to work on his paperbeating team as one of his men had died suddenly from river fever . |
| 20 | The old stable is empty — she can live in there where there 's nobody to stand on 'er awd tits ' |
| 21 | We 'd recommend Garda for those who want plenty to do on holiday , or to groups with different interests — families with teenage children perhaps . |
| 22 | There is plenty to do on the beautifully wide soft sandy beach and in the historic old town . |
| 23 | There was plenty to do on your own doorstep — to look further was a cop-out . |
| 24 | I certainly have plenty to learn on that subject . |
| 25 | What a waste it would be , all those roads and nobody to tramp on them ! |
| 26 | And they will undoubtedly object to the more unbridled formulations that enter the three fictions ; the biography of Eliot has plenty to say on the subject , too , while maintaining a comparative , and suitable , reserve . |
| 27 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 28 | She was mysterious about herself but had plenty to say on the subject of her boyfriends . |
| 29 | And I get bored with nothing to do on holiday but lie in the sun . ’ |
| 30 | Lots of chaps with pink coats will have nothing to do on winter mornings unless we let 'em come repossessin' with us . |