Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The , I mean , how long have to be , have we to , er and I 'm I 'm disgusted with Edinburgh that nobody has phoned in on this sort of point ! |
| 2 | In the past , the IFA has clamped down on such outbursts against referees and is now looking into the matter . |
| 3 | ‘ A rumour will be spread Tweed has gone off on another insurance investigation . |
| 4 | instead of growing up straight look one of those things has broke off on that Alec |
| 5 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 6 | Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt , which she 'd pulled up on that side . |
| 7 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 8 | When this was pointed out , the family 's reaction was at first disbelief and then concern , because the sale would have fallen through on this point , especially as , when they acquired the property , they had used a solicitor and a surveyor . |
| 9 | She was still pondering on his use of her name as the taxi drove through the dark city streets , the driver having given up on any hopes of conversation after a couple of monosyllabic and nonsensical replies from his customer . |
| 10 | Having sat in on many lessons , he produced a list of ten categories of interaction . |
| 11 | If he had been pensioned off then , he would have missed out on all Rovers ' glory days of promotion , Wembley and Europe . |
| 12 | A really thorough murderer would have boned up on both subjects more intently . |
| 13 | This is an interesting passage because Platt B. is effectively saying that an undertaking to pay this excessive charge had been extracted from the clerk before he commenced his search and that he could not honestly have gone back on that undertaking . |
| 14 | But if they changed their portfolio balance , they would have lost out on this upturn , ’ said . |
| 15 | I 've given up on that idea actually . |
| 16 | Back in Manchester a glossy fanzine called Muze had picked up on this story and published a naively frivolous article which dared to question the somewhat confused ethical position of the band . |
| 17 | Somewhere , affection had crept in on both sides . |
| 18 | I would like to have discovered what had become of Mr Graham , for although we had not known each other well , I would say we had got on on those occasions we had met . |
| 19 | It was possibly the first time the BBC had had to take other equipment out of service because someone ( Voigt ) complained of its bad performance , which had shown up on this speaker . |
| 20 | As the patents had run out on many ICI fibre Products , so competitors had jumped on the bandwagon and started building plants at a frenzied pace . |