Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was no reason why she should not stretch out on the forward superstructure and get in a little sunbathing . |
| 2 | No foe should ever sneak up on an exhausted Marine slumbering during prolonged combat . |
| 3 | Perhaps this debate wo n't be as lively and er as controversial as the one that er we arranged to have on the question of insider dealing but it is an important matter because auditing as I said , is not just as assistance to companies but it is a reassurance to the general public and the public at the moment are in need of grave reassurance that the insur that the er the financial services industry as well as industry generally , is being properly looked after and for these reasons er although we support er the orders before er the house tonight , we have no hesitation at all in ensuring that they are debated properly than not something that should simply go through on the nod . |
| 4 | If you get your books right , it 'll all happen out on the shopfloor , all the manager has to do . |
| 5 | Rumour has it that ‘ Cope ’ , brilliant as it is , might not end up on the Aunts ' album , such is the ‘ glut ’ of material available . |
| 6 | I 'll never get up on the wagon . |
| 7 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 8 | If his education were below that of his audience he could not fall back on the validity of the Sacraments he administered for support . |
| 9 | Now I though he would have hysterics ; he could not get down on the ground quick enough to carry this action out . |
| 10 | We could just fall back on a bit of sweets and chocolate or something in the end but I 'd like to get some |
| 11 | If the quality of bottom-up information was good , the algorithm could quickly home in on the correct sequence of words . |
| 12 | If we ca n't see anything more unusual suppose we could always fall back on the bubble baths or the anyway I think that 's a bit more than but there you go . |
| 13 | He would n't be able to you know , okay he 'd probably potter about on a restoration job but I mean that 's not |
| 14 | I 'd practically come out on a stretcher . |
| 15 | George Bush could now cash in on the country 's post-war confidence by launching another war on the black home-front . |
| 16 | Thomas could now look back on the papers he had begun , or completed and sold in his first two terms , as ‘ vain stuff ’ but he continued to write verses , which were sent to Harry and Helen . |
| 17 | He could n't go on the corkscrew he could n't go up on the ship he could n't go on anything . |
| 18 | They were quite far apart , it was light but still felt enclosed : you could look up and see the high tops of the pines swaying in a wind that you could n't feel down on the ground . |
| 19 | Realizing I could n't hang around on the dole forever waiting for the Tate Gallery to offer me an exhibition , and also that my boyfriend , also on the dole , was not likely to be able to support me , I decided to go for further training . |
| 20 | ‘ Screens were erected , so that although boys and girls could see each other , they could n't climb out on the same side . |
| 21 | And basically they managed to jump up on the bed unlike yesterday morning where pretended she could n't get up on the bed . |
| 22 | Still others were specialised cyborgs , part-machine , who could never lie down on a bunk . |
| 23 | It was he who had to listen to how the clients could never get through on the telephone , how they were chased by debt collectors even when they had paid , how they could not find up to the minute share prices , etc . |
| 24 | To that individual 's horrified disbelief , the animal then proceeds to rub around his or her legs and may even jump up on the person 's lap . |
| 25 | It was like being adrift on a warm sea , floating on a slow , swelling tide that would eventually wash up on a sun-kissed beach in little breakers of sparkling foam . |
| 26 | Er well if it wa if it was it would be very convenient cos it would probably come out on the car park but er |
| 27 | You see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and we could we could talk . |
| 28 | Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane . |
| 29 | ‘ There was I , feeling flattered at the attention you were paying me , when all the time you were just testing me out to see that I would n't dry up on the air ! |
| 30 | There 's some things you ca n't do out on the street . ’ |