Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it perhaps affect our outlook on the mother-child relationship if we had to take this responsibility on ourselves ? |
| 2 | ‘ But you better get your arse on the deck . |
| 3 | Gore apparently did not want his name on the cover of the book and wished for it to be published by the Canadian fascist , Arcand , so that he could not be sued . |
| 4 | In these circumstances the treasurer should ensure that the bank 's desire to complete the transaction does not influence its advice on the pricing of the securities . |
| 5 | His career record of 506 wickets and 3,882 runs does not convey his impact on the game because he was not concerned with his own performances — the team came first . |
| 6 | I do not need your input on the subject . |
| 7 | Even Margaret Thatcher in her prime could not carry her party on the question of Sundays . |
| 8 | Biya did not alter his position on the holding of a national conference , a central demand of the opposition , which he had refused to countenance . |
| 9 | Then another command : ‘ Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him ; for now I know that you fear God , seeing you have not withheld your son , your only son , from me . ’ |
| 10 | In public , McFarlane and North often gave the impression of patient negotiation with politicians who did not take their view on the contras . |
| 11 | He could no longer read their position on the Loran let alone see the coast and the mouth of the Makaa River which remained his goal . |
| 12 | And if Pickerings does come through he might just get his picture on the wall . |
| 13 | I 'd already put my life on the line by marrying you when I thought you were in love with Radcliffe . |
| 14 | The mountains can be a dangerous place — weather changes rapidly leaving climbers and walkers ‘ blind ’ while hands and feet can easily lose their grip on the slopes covered with neve or tightly packed snow . |
| 15 | When newly awakened from lively dreams , we are so near them , still agitated by them , still in their sphere — give us one syllable , one feature , one hint , and we should repossess the whole ; hours of this strange entertainment would come trooping back to us ; but we can not get our hand on the first link or fibre , and the whole is lost . |
| 16 | Brazils are tenacious , and all the vibrators and air blasts in the world will not loosen their grip on the shell . |
| 17 | On Sept. 22 the President of the World Bank , Lewis Preston , called on donor nations to increase aid to developing countries , saying that " the international community must not turn its back on the poor " . |
| 18 | Unlike Mike , however , I shall not turn my back on the game I love . |
| 19 | The reader will probably object that a hideous primal trauma of parricide and rape is all very well for purposes of explaining the subsequent guilt and neurotic inhibitions of the perpetrators of these ghastly crimes , but can hardly hope to explain how they succeeded in transmitting their new-found superegos to their children , and certainly will not explain how , when all the primal fathers were gone ( a process which may have taken a considerable period of time admittedly , but which must have happened eventually ) , when there were no more primal parricides to be procured , human societies could still construct their civilization on the acquisition of the superego . |
| 20 | ‘ It was very comfortable , ’ he surprisingly recorded , ‘ and I could always keep my eye on the Prime Minister . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And do you usually put your lunch on the front of your shirt , Nigel ? |
| 22 | In time the cities chose to further stamp their authority on the matter by calling these new palaces of justice the Palazzo della Ragione rather than the Broletto . |
| 23 | But it is still hard to beat the experienced eye , which can automatically focus its attention on the most significant features of a spectrum . |
| 24 | If you , if you are standing like this and you pick up one foot you will slightly raise your pelvis on the opposite side wo n't you ? |
| 25 | It seems we can now qualify our position on the relationship between dramatic playing and performance modes by saying that although the ultimate intention of the performer is to ‘ describe ’ an emotional event , the quality essential to dramatic playing , the quality of ‘ being ’ may also enter the performance mode , given the Stanislavsky approach . |
| 26 | Through a cracked squinting window high up in a cracked squatting tenement , a 25 watt woman is wearily flattening her husband 's future shirt with a nearly-steaming iron in an environment where the purple sweat and aggro must eventually print its feeling on the creamy-browny ever so piled up non dish washy ever so squashy piled up feelings ever so — ironed out onto the stove under the sink beyond the plug-hole of anyone 's conception . |
| 27 | And do n't throw your suitcase on the floor … now you 'll have to pick everything up . ’ |
| 28 | He was a callous brute , and if she did n't need his protection on the journey to Winchester she would n't care if he bled to … |
| 29 | I mean … you did n't finish your work on the ghost orchids ? ’ |
| 30 | Wilson received an injury in the third minute , but that did n't hamper his stand on the game . |