Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Runswick Bay , a multi-million pound investment by Yorkshire Television , is due to go out on the network five days a week next year . |
| 2 | Canon Wright said : ‘ I believe that to go back on the progress that was made in the convention would be a retrograde step , for what is going to replace it ? ’ |
| 3 | It was pleasant to stroll around on an evening such as this , thinking productively about the work which would make his name ( and his fortune ) and restore to him the sense of achievement he had so greatly enjoyed as an undergraduate journalist and Union wit . |
| 4 | Back in the Company 's suite after debriefing — ‘ You 've proved , ’ said Nils without praise — Jezrael was free to go out on the town . |
| 5 | As a young person , I am often quite afraid to go out on the streets in case I am approached by one of these grey-haired vandals and informed how much worse the world is these days or interrogated as to why young people do n't have any respect anymore . |
| 6 | If he 's done anything really wicked I do n't think HMG would be prepared to go out on a limb on his behalf . |
| 7 | Free to smell again the sweat on the brow of the bourse ; free to bask in the slipstream of wide-bodied jets ; free to sit in on the counsels of the alleged good and the alleged great . |
| 8 | And as he closed the window of his room against the night frost , he was afraid to look out on the hills in case he heard angels sing and the other folk in the home would dismiss the story because of the two , long drawn out drinks he had before sleep closed down another Christmas Day . |
| 9 | Bills accepted by banks designated as ‘ eligible ’ banks by the Bank of England become first-class bills which the Bank of England is willing to deal in on the market . |
| 10 | I think , you know , you say you 've got a month , I think you 're gon na need also to try and find out from your membership as to whether in fact they 're prepared to turn up on a Saturday as well . |
| 11 | According to sources at the highest level , the Santa Cruz Operation Inc has ‘ bitten the ideological bullet , ’ and is prepared to step out on the Unix SVR4 road — if it can cut the deal it wants with Unix owner USL . |
| 12 | It was exciting to travel up on the night train and to find Granny waiting beside the fire in the hall , as exhilarated by the festivities as any of her grandchildren . |
| 13 | I told them , as I tell alumni wherever I meet them , that the best thing you can do for the University is to remember its strengths , and in your normal professional and daily lives to be prepared to speak up on the University 's behalf when you think it is appropriate . |
| 14 | It is impossible to creep up on the duck , because its 360 degree vision takes in the slightest movement anywhere around it . |
| 15 | Even long-drained regions , such as Longdon Marsh in Worcestershire , are easy to pick out on the Ordnance Survey as ‘ holes ’ on the map . |
| 16 | I imagine it would be virtually impossible to sneak up on an owl . |
| 17 | In the absence of much to shout about on the score sheet , Leeds fans reverted to taking the mick out of Arse fans ' feeble singing by doing antiphonal ‘ red army , red army ’ chanting in high-pitched silly voices . |
| 18 | To him , even then , it had been history , and it somehow deserved ill-fortune ; in the heedless fashion of the American suburbs it seemed right to look down on the refugees from an old , superstition-riven world . |
| 19 | 3 STEVE BULL scored twice as England finished their European Championship Under-21 qualifying campaign with a flourish in Jastrzebie Zdruj , but they are still likely to miss out on a quarter-final place for the first time since the competition began 13 years ago . |
| 20 | And that , in turn , is likely to feed back on the Government in the form of pressures from the most irresistible of all Tory constituencies , the City . |
| 21 | There were no set hours , no union to look after their interests and they were lucky to get out on a Saturday or Sunday to go to the chapel , or on certain special occasions to the cinema . |
| 22 | If it 's a simple puncture , your tubeless repair kit may get you back on the road again , but if it 's a major rip , or any other sort of fault , the machine 's likely to end up on a trailer . |
| 23 | A little unsporting maybe but then none are likely to end up on the dinnerplate or as a fisherman 's trophy . |
| 24 | When the hot tub craze swept through California in the late 1970s middle-aged Wesley Laroya and his wife Helen were quick to get in on the action . |
| 25 | Like a flan with potatoes and cheese in , mind you you 're supposed to cut down on the cheese |
| 26 | Even so it was just great to get back on a road race bike again in February . |
| 27 | it is also helpful to note down on the card idiomatic phrases using the lexical item in question , or illustrative sentences to show its range of meaning . |
| 28 | Nigger told him he was due to start back on the tugs on the following Monday . |
| 29 | And life 's too short to miss out on the chance of it for the wrong kinds of reasons . ’ |
| 30 | And … a Fish called Zander : Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the water … here comes Jaws ' little brother . |