Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on a [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are using a lot of roses in your pressed flower pictures , you may find it worthwhile making up a small stock of finished roses in different colours to save time when you are in an inspired mood and want to concentrate on a design rather than the various techniques involved . |
| 2 | Robert tried to concentrate on a spot just above the doctor 's head . |
| 3 | The European Community [ EC ] has embarked on a path inexorably leading to the eventual replacement of member countries ' currencies with a single European currency . |
| 4 | A woman has saved a baby 's life using resuscitation techniques she 'd learned on a course just two weeks earlier . |
| 5 | ‘ But there is no way I 'm going to go on a tour just now simply to grovel to those people who still do n't think I can sing . ’ |
| 6 | Well it means I 've got to go on a Thursday so if you run out of money on a Tuesday with run out . |
| 7 | However , in the process the very masculine code of honour which is affronted by Lucio 's perverse failure of masculinity is shown to border on a perversity even more excessive than his . |
| 8 | You make me decide to go on a diet immediately , though even if I starved for a month I 'd never get a waist as slim as yours . ’ |
| 9 | The script was commissioned quickly to replace Coburn 's dropped ‘ The Robots ’ story and thereby maintain the balance between historical and futuristic adventures , and production was scheduled and slotted to follow on a week later from ‘ The Tribe of Gum ’ . |
| 10 | Men can practise putting on a condom too , when they 're masturbating . |
| 11 | She had to go on a bus actually . |
| 12 | ‘ What 's wrong with her ? ’ asked Juliet , remembering the thin , dark-haired woman who had arrived on a stretcher just before she went for her coffee break . |
| 13 | Maybe Bunny could learn to moonlight on a mainframe somewhere and tap in to a whole new reference work of nubile young ladies . |
| 14 | Oh well he 's moved on a day then |