Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laura cried , struggling to sit up on the wide leather rear seat of the large car , where she had been so unceremoniously tossed only a moment before . |
| 2 | Insurance defence lawyers , however , tend to concentrate more on the legal process and procedure . |
| 3 | The industrial north of Italy , in turn , has depended heavily on a reserve army of the unemployed from the south — the more backward Mezzogiorno — and now increasingly from North Africa . |
| 4 | WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats . |
| 5 | In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time . |
| 6 | However , I want to concentrate here on the technical work that the Faculty does on behalf , not only of its members , but of the Institute membership as a whole . |
| 7 | From Wolhusen the circular itinerary now continues south on road 10 which has come in on the left ( ie east from Luzern . |
| 8 | But Romania 's official press has reported extensively on the ethnic unrest across the border , while , for example , failing to report on the radical reform and street demonstrations taking place in other Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 9 | JAMES FREEMAN , chairman of the Mid-Hants Railway plc , the company which runs the Watercress Line between Alresford and Alton , has reported favourably on the past six months trading in a briefing for shareholders and members , writes RICHARD BEAN . |
| 10 | THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to royal biographer Andrew Morton . |
| 11 | THE Princess of Wales seriously considered walking out on the Royal Family , according to controversial royal biographer Andrew Morton . |
| 12 | Although headed by opposition MPs , it has grown independently on a national basis and held its first large scale rally in Colombo in late February 1991 . |
| 13 | UNIVERSITIES ' rugby , poised to sign a long-term sponsorship contract , has missed out on an immediate injection of £35,000 after an embarrassing hitch resulted in the deal being kicked firmly into touch by student authorities . |
| 14 | A federal judge is expected to rule soon on the constitutional issue at hand — whether a state-owned institution can bar half the state 's citizens from applying for admission because of their sex . |
| 15 | She tried lying down on the bare mattress , but the whole place felt cold and close . |
| 16 | The Wire-haired Dachshund has a distinctive ‘ beard ’ which needs combing out on a daily basis . |
| 17 | Many women , through no fault of their own , appear to start off on the wrong foot . |
| 18 | As with most artists who have become mythical personalities in the popular imagination , such attention has focused primarily on the anecdotal and tragic details of Kahlo 's admittedly fascinating life . |
| 19 | A convoy of vintage Rolls-Royce cars has set out on a nostalgic journey . |
| 20 | The analysis of authority has concentrated exclusively on a one-to-one relation between an authority and a single person subject to it . |
| 21 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
| 22 | The journalists claim in ‘ Ambush : The War Between The SAS and the IRA ’ that the SAS man drove a lorry identical to the ex-UDR man 's and pretended to break down on a lonely Tyrone road . |
| 23 | I have only come across one women at the Humboldt University who has worked seriously on the Russian Avant-garde . |
| 24 | The group , with a total of 1,500 customers , has focussed primarily on the financial sector , where it generates 69.8% of turnover . |
| 25 | STUART RIPLEY could hardly wait to get back on the Ayresome Park pitch but , once there , was glad to get off again , writes David Alexander . |
| 26 | It needs to think ahead on a systematic basis . |
| 27 | The debate concerning the factual consequences of insider dealing has centred mainly on the predictive power of economics . |
| 28 | The name of the game , ‘ Grandmother 's Footsteps ’ is already a hint : the young and fit creeping up on the old , the halt and the lame . |
| 29 | Railway enthusiasts , understandably , have let off steam about the matter and say the town has lost out on a major tourist opportunity . |
| 30 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |