Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.

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1 All teams , though , have much ground to make up on the Samoans , who in the course of their four ties at the weekend , scored 23 tries .
2 I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own .
3 After losing 83–6 to Blaydon and 42–3 to Horden in recent weeks , the injuries are not helping to get back on the rails in time for their final two league matches this month against Sunderland and Mowden Park .
4 We are left with the fun loving ( overgrown kids ) and the ‘ I am not going to miss out on the fun ’ brigade .
5 Glad to hear they are not going to end up on the table .
6 He could see the River Thames below with the new high-rise housing blocks already beginning to show up on the skyline .
7 On 11 November 1918 bells and cheers rang out all over France on Armistice morning , and Modigliani can not have missed out on the celebrations .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 for their part , the British did not see the Canadian proposal as much of a compromise , and indeed seemed already to have given up on the conference .
11 But he can not afford to sit back on the basis that Everton are too big a club to go down .
12 He just had to turn up on the day .
13 Brutality , as Hill describes and felt it , was a bitter part of his prison life ; you just learnt to get down on the floor as fast as you could and cover up as best you could .
14 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 .
15 Bleating bookies are still refusing to pay out on the bets while Bola make their inquiries .
16 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 .
17 As Dave suggests , it 's often more use to read up on the natural background of the fish than to read a fishkeeper 's account of breeding it .
18 When , when she does come out she usually likes to walk round on the flat
19 We 'll also want to sit in on the cochon gris 's ceremony tonight , if there is one . ’
20 The family Rover also became bogged down on the beach road and his brother Anwar suffered a heart attack after spending a night on the open beach .
21 Because you 're probably doubling doubling up on the recording .
22 They may also have missed out on the crucial period of sociability , relatively early in life , when dogs learn about their wider environment .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 I 'd just really like to pick up on the employment argument .
26 But this what the act says on this particular point — it 's interesting to see because it really does come down on the side of integration .
27 ‘ No , I 'd expected it ; he would n't want to start off on the wrong foot . ’
28 It 's 7pm and you ca n't wait to go out on the town .
29 When she dislocated a shoulder while chasing a burglar , and was out of action for another four months , she could n't wait to get back on the beat again .
30 What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education .
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