Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently Ziegfeld spied on rehearsals by watching through a peephole in the wall . |
| 2 | They possessed a certain plausibility in as much as Richard could not have gone on crusade without first ensuring that his position as his father 's heir was fully and publicly recognized in the most formal manner possible , while everything about Henry 's policy in the last four years indicated that he was reluctant to make any such announcement . |
| 3 | Lord Coleridge C.J. observed , at p. 457 , that the corporation would not have insisted on payment of the dues if they had known the facts . |
| 4 | The discussion up to now has focused on employment as our index . |
| 5 | And it 's the sort of the card the jury may well have seen on television in dramas . |
| 6 | We might as well have gone on holiday to the Sahara Desert . ’ |
| 7 | I remember when I 'd been there only two weeks I almost got put on report for smoking in the avenue . |
| 8 | Obviously you will save on heating bills , petrol , and if you book in all-inclusive holiday , on what you would otherwise have spent on food at home . |
| 9 | Order twen er , rule twenty , eight , four provides that when a party is entitled to costs , and that of course is the case of the plaintiffs , a , fails without good reason to commence or conduct proceedings for the taxation of those costs in accordance with this order or any direction or b , delays lodging a bill of costs for taxation , the taxing office may one , disallow already part of the costs of taxation that he would otherwise would warn about the party and two , after taking into account all the circumstances , including any prejudice suffered by any other party as result of such failure or delay as the case maybe , and any additional interest payable under section seventeen of the judgements act because of the failure or delay , allow the party so entitled less than the amount he would otherwise have allowed on taxation of the bill are wholly disallowed the costs , his provision for an appeal to allow to the judge and chambers and that is the way the matter is coming before |
| 10 | Alan Rothwell , who played another post office clerk in the film and soon afterwards became known on TV as David Barlow in Coronation Street , remembered Crawford as ‘ a good mate and good fun ’ , adding , ‘ We were both on a sort of level at the time . |
| 11 | Realise that we should never have gone on holiday with Jack and Kate , but with Harry and Chrissie and their child . |
| 12 | Richard 's brothers and sisters would certainly have passed on tales of quiet desperation : but by the time he was seven or eight , things were easier . |
| 13 | Technical and financial improvement saw the virtual elimination of live performances ( regretted by some people ) ; immeasurable increases in the quality of settings , costumes and production generally ; the commissioning of plays written specifically for TV ( much encouraged by Sidney Newman 's ITV ‘ Armchair Theatre ’ in the 1960s and BBC series such as ‘ Play for Today ’ and ‘ The Wednesday Play ’ ) ; and the discovery , with the Forsyte Saga , that audiences would happily get hooked on serialization of literary classics ( and not-so-classics ) . |
| 14 | Unemployment was proving to be an intractable problem ; the successful Russian Revolution was not long passed , and although the police were controlling mass demonstrations of the unemployed , using violence on occasion , they too had gone on strike in August 1918 . |