Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , I once stayed on a tiny Wyoming ranch where the teetotal owner dragged us out of bed at 5 a.m. for long , freezing horse rides into the Rockies . |
| 2 | I once sat on a Labour-controlled council which went out to tender and would not accept the lowest tender because it did not come from a direct labour department . |
| 3 | Well probably in your early days you 'll probably do a mix , but if y the quicker you can get to only work , and even to the extent I mean I went out and bought my own book that had personal recommendations on the front and I would actually show that and say look John the only way I actually work , while I get everything ready you might like to look through because it 's the only way I work , I purely work on a personal recommendation basis and that enables me to get quality clients like yourself erm and I can devote time to you rather than have to go out looking for people to tell my story |
| 4 | Well it was when I 'd finished my midwifery training I certainly stayed on a little while in er in doing a bit of district work . |
| 5 | As part of the government 's support for renewable energy schemes , refuse-derived fuel ( RDF ) will be used in a new power station in Slough which also relies on a circulating fluidized bed , a form of clean coal technology . |
| 6 | Name the US aircraft carrier which accidentally fired on a Turkish destroyer , killing five crewmen . |
| 7 | A group of American housewives discussed how they combined an exercise routine with everyday living and one recommended her method of keeping a pan which she constantly used on a high shelf , so that she did plenty of stretching every day . |
| 8 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
| 9 | ( Though I do have a friend — Bunny — who always insists on a female doctor or nurse if he has anything wrong of a private nature . |
| 10 | The Sex Pistols ( who once touched on a similar subject ) also made sense , once , but although Johnny Rotten was a wry and clever ambassador for the feeling of the youth , he equally made it perfectly easy for the tabloids to pin him with yobbishness . |
| 11 | Bem ( 1979b , 1983 ) tries to impart social validity to the cognitive approach ; but she still relies on a cognitive concept , that of the schema , to explain how gender relations become an integral part of subjectivity . |
| 12 | The lie had a pronounced effect upon Lettice who immediately ventured on a small excursion into terror . |
| 13 | ‘ But you never went on a sea-going ship , to faraway lands ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You never went on a gas-main explosion in Newark Eddy , ’ he said irritably . |
| 15 | A sort of cat and mouse game followed , especially going up the long hill , but we eventually settled on a dead heat . |
| 16 | This year , we also insisted on a substantial strengthening of the nature of the health warnings put on packets and on any tobacco advertising . |
| 17 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 18 | We then add on a second dynamic element : ( c ) a declining output strategy , because of ( b ) . |
| 19 | We then add on a first dynamic element : ( b ) a reservation sales strategy , with a constant reservation price . |
| 20 | As a result , we would no longer be able to use the concepts of material things in the way we normally use them and the question whether something observed on one occasion is identical with something else observed on a different occasion would not even arise . |
| 21 | In any case , the reasons for regarding the idea of numerical identity and that of numerical diversity as significant are not such as might enable us to decide unequivocally whether something observed on one occasion is numerically the same as something else observed on a different occasion , or how many ontological objects are involved in a given case . |
| 22 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 23 | The voting-oriented positive approaches to redistribution , given the comments above , may seem on stronger ground in explaining policy in that they largely rely on a narrow self-interest motive to make them tick . |
| 24 | Heaven help us if they ever get on a winning streak . |
| 25 | Heaven help us if they ever get on a winning streak . |
| 26 | I know people who do make money from their knitting and they usually concentrate on a particular line . |
| 27 | They also insist on a high level of quality — the fact that clothing from Benjamin Simon 's Lees factory is sold in Dior 's Paris flagship store is proof that their quality control works . |
| 28 | They now fight on a daily basis and invariably without so much as a warning growl . |
| 29 | Such was the organisers ' strong determination to live up to the movie image of English life , they even laid on a scatty vicar wearing a panama hat to serve tea and sandwiches at the finish . |
| 30 | The first meeting place was above a cafe in Newgate Street in the City of London , but this did not prove satisfactory and they then met on a weekly basis at another cafe near Marble Arch . |