Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only fly on the Russian Front . |
| 2 | I usually skied on the 35 miles of groomed valley trails that meander over icy , mumbling streams and through clumps of pine trees whose branches sag under dollops of snow . |
| 3 | I nearly slipped on the convex peel as it made a squishing sound underfoot , doing small damage to my shoe . |
| 4 | I even sat on the local erm committee wi with the police authority , you know , and er we 've got all sorts of promises but nothing that has ever materialized . |
| 5 | Had I actually erred on the discreet side ? |
| 6 | Travis , remind me not to get on the wrong side of you again . |
| 7 | Do the longer-term contracts that my hon. Friend 's statement envisages , which presumably depend on the longer-term view , take the prospects of a Mersey barrage any further ? |
| 8 | Those which normally live on the inner part of the reef flat ( see below ) are more resistant to emersion than those normally under vigorous wave action : some species can survive emersion for periods up to three hours . |
| 9 | I went this year , during the town 's autumn festival , which always starts on the last Friday of August and lasts for 10 days . |
| 10 | As for the benign intent : whereas dashes for growth in the 1960s and early 1970s were engineered by governments that deliberately overestimated the economy 's ability to grow , last year 's boom was the result of a miscalculation , which probably erred on the right side . |
| 11 | Two key objectives : establishing a network and investigator bringing himself up to speed on the French plastic cards and payment systems market . |
| 12 | At that time the square was bigger , with the palazzo standing at its centre , and the northern limit being the Palazzo Giureconsulti which now stands on the far side of Via Mercanti . |
| 13 | As with most work which boldly centres on the male sexual organ , these photographs seek to reveal the normally hidden and often denied vulnerability of the male physique . |
| 14 | Thus both Castile and Genoa became suppliers of galleys which often fought on the French side , notably in 1416 when the Genoese provided part of the fleet which suffered defeat at the hands of the English at the battle of the Seine , off Harfleur . |
| 15 | This has far reaching consequences at the cultural level not only for learning but also for the design of jobs and even for leisure pursuits which increasingly depend on the same kind of interface . |
| 16 | I have nothing further to say on the green pages . |
| 17 | Seating herself in solitary splendour , avoiding the accusing glances of his ancestors , she thankfully started on the thick vegetable soup , which , despite Feargal 's derogatory remarks about Mary and Rose , was excellent . |
| 18 | But if you only went on the square foot it do n't matter how big it was well that 's like , surely that 'd be fairer ? |
| 19 | The Gedge boy , who apparently spied on the entire population of Dynmouth , had no doubt seen him . |
| 20 | Have you already decided on the various locations where this theme is to be explored ? |
| 21 | Hearing the sound of his footsteps at the bottom of the stairs , she quickly pulled on the first things that came to hand — a pair of well-worn jeans that clung lovingly to her like a second skin , and a sweatshirt . |
| 22 | She always insisted on the active and determining role of the child , rejecting absolutely any analogy between the growth of a child and the growth of plants because of the power of the gardener to prune a plant . |
| 23 | She still had on the revealing silk blouse she had worn in the show , with stage jewellery sparkling at her throat and breast . |
| 24 | In the weeks that followed , the teleprinter messages from Barashevo were to become familiar reading to the official who now hobbled on the built-up shoe that supported his club foot towards his filing cabinets . |
| 25 | The objective defined in 1858 was to enable ‘ persons requiring medical aid … to distinguish qualified from unqualified practitioners ’ and we need only read some early issues of the Lancet to learn that the medical register was regarded at the time as a list of doctors who set themselves higher standards than the multitude of quacks who then preyed on the sick . |
| 26 | you know you maybe err on the safe side a bit but as you say even if it 's erm well thirty hours would be getting |
| 27 | The strategic need for diversity and ultimately for the replacement of fossil fuels has been the driving force for the development of nuclear power in the U.K. In turn — since uranium reserves are finite — the efficient exploitation of nuclear power itself ultimately depends on the fast reactor . |
| 28 | It 's , and , and if you actually look on the actual area we 're talking about , there 's only one , two , three , four , there 's only about half a dozen tables . |
| 29 | And er we , we did n't do an awful lot on commercial later on , we gave up that er thing we , we mostly concentrated on the private cars . |
| 30 | It 's the one right bang on the main road ? |