Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] on the [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 | I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total . |
| 3 | I should need to go in on the eleventh to clear up I expect . |
| 4 | Many women , through no fault of their own , appear to start off on the wrong foot . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | This Spotlight reports on a survey of 94 adults ( defined as people aged 20 or over ) who fell into this category and looks at what — if anything — providers might do to pick up on the original expression of interest . |
| 8 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 9 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 10 | And they are refusing to pay out on the late flood of bets until the official inquiry is complete . |
| 11 | This time bomb is ticking away , colleagues , and in about twenty years ' time , we 'll be back to where we were we 'll have a lot of people who 've got small pensions , based on their previous employment with a health authority or a local authority , British Gas or the electricity companies then they 've had to go out on the open market and they will be under-funded and have inadequate pension when they retire . |
| 12 | And this is a ph , like a photocopy , so what you 'll have is a nice printed version with Abbey Life blue , purely for you to get a feel of if you like , , and in this , we 're very quickly going to go through on the first sheet it will have activity and production and it will have your data there . |
| 13 | We are left with the fun loving ( overgrown kids ) and the ‘ I am not going to miss out on the fun ’ brigade . |
| 14 | If you would like to help in any way , or would like to go along on the next trip in September , contact Keith Taylor on 1252 29806 . |
| 15 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 16 | The rest of the 50 minutes should be used to look back on the previous lectures and notes on the same topic . |
| 17 | This was obviously the pigeons ' favourite delicacy : at the sight of the tin can , the pigeons leapt in the air and fluttered above us waiting to dive down on the first grains ; others landed flirtatiously on Fardine 's arms and shoulders . |
| 18 | It does n't know for certain , so it simply doubles whatever free space it thinks is left — after all the software is n't psychic and ca n't know what files are going to wind up on the hard disk . |
| 19 | Traffic was beginning to build up on the main road which bypassed Axe , and the sound of one particular car engine could be heard , becoming steadily louder as it approached her part of the lane . |
| 20 | WITHOUT wishing to cash in on the latest Royal marital rift it seems right to impart the information that some cartoons depicting the unfortunate pair have gone on sale in their adoptive city . |
| 21 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |
| 22 | ‘ No , I 'd expected it ; he would n't want to start off on the wrong foot . ’ |
| 23 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |
| 24 | Thus , we would have to fall back on the anthropic principle to explain why the electron has the mass and charge that it does . |
| 25 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 26 | The broader track from the Horse Fair was better for riding ; he would not have to pass by on the narrow path where he had stumbled over Aldhelm 's body . |
| 27 | So the more frozen in horror a human being is , the more likely the cat is to leap up and try to settle down on the static lap . |
| 28 | Add to these two schizophrenic cats , two bears with what look like severe cases of acne , and several reindeer who are just asking to end up on the wrong side of a roast dinner . |
| 29 | In the case of an indemnifier who is not a consumer , the question to be asked is whether , in the absence of the indemnity , the indemnitee would have been obliged at common law to compensate the indemnifier for the economic loss suffered as a result of having to pay out on the third party claim . |
| 30 | Note roughly how much you will have to take up on the longer line . |