Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're well-disposed enough , all the Percy tribe , because their own holdings are in the north , and they have nothing to lose here on the Welsh border . |
| 2 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 3 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps someone got through on a short-wave transmitter ? ’ |
| 5 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 6 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 7 | ‘ Even when I got by on a fast straight , where the extra power of my machine was beneficial , I thought it might be part of his plan to let me go in front and force me into making a mistake . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm happy ’ , ‘ I 'm settled ’ , ‘ Now I know what it feels like ’ , ‘ I got out on the right side ’ . |
| 9 | Devlin said , ‘ In forty-one , I got back on a neutral boat , a Brazilian cargo ship from Ireland that put in at Lisbon , but that 's a tricky one . |
| 10 | Klondyke Trading Co are responsible for providing a variety of straps for both the home market and the world , but as I found out on a recent visit there 's more to making one guitar strap than meets the eye , let alone producing thousands . |
| 11 | but then on the erm , Saturday , and the , that 's , and then on I say then on the bloody Friday night what happened he fell out the bed I phoned |
| 12 | But I quite see that you need someone to come in on a practical issue like what to do about his tenants . |
| 13 | I thought you said there 'd be no problem if I came in on a six-month permit ? ’ |
| 14 | I came out on the Good Friday and , on the Saturday morning , stitches still in and everything , I got up and thought to myself : ‘ I 'm going to have a smoke ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ What was once a one mile journey into Garrison for someone living just on the other side of the border became a 26 mile round trip . |
| 16 | The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there . |
| 17 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 18 | Below , I look down on the differing surfaces , the differing states of ripeness from light green through to gold . |
| 19 | Maha followed them but Hussa and I threw ourselves face down on the warm , white sand , both of us smiling at the success of the project . |
| 20 | I plonked down on the hard wooden sofa and began musing : was he telling the truth ? |
| 21 | So in July 1982 I set off on a similar journey . |
| 22 | Then , once dressed , I set out on the great excursion : shopping , errands , and a treat in a cafe . |
| 23 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 24 | I knocked anxiously on the wooden door and waited patiently until the door opened and a small , plump , bearded man greeted me with a cheery hello . |
| 25 | I popped out on the sixth-floor roof and had a cigarette . ’ |
| 26 | At first I managed to get hold of two pictures by Popova , then the thread broke off and , completely by chance , I stumbled back on the right trail . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've got someone coming in on a blue light , a young man who 's fallen under a train . |
| 28 | I lay back on the hot canvas of a recliner and closed my eyes , soaking it in . |
| 29 | I lay back on the empty bed and looked at my watch . |
| 30 | As I lay back on the clean white sheet tucked round the hard mattress of the sick room bed and faded into a temporary oblivion , I thought to myself that perhaps early retirement would be no bad thing to consider after all . |