Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] on a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must insist on a world where natural diversity is valued and protected for the benefit of all . |
| 2 | I think I 'll put on a jumper today , or a pullover it 'll be cold coming out of John 's tonight . |
| 3 | I 'd be alright as long as I could go on a route where all I had to do was turn left but as soon as I turn right |
| 4 | ‘ Well , you said we could go on a picnic today . ’ |
| 5 | You may toil on a project enthusiastically for many years , only to find that it all comes to naught because of a political change of direction . |
| 6 | As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah . |
| 7 | Object orientation means that everything , from a program to a file , is an object , and you would work on a file rather than in a program — it 's an attitude , a state of mind , and can be emulated in Windows 3.1 to some extent by associating file extensions with applications and using object linking and embedding , a form of which appears in OS/2 . |
| 8 | Is that , I will move on a table then ! |
| 9 | It can offer something different from both NATO and the European Communities , in the case of the former because it can concentrate on a European rather than a trans-Atlantic perspective , and in the second because since 1973 neutral Ireland has been a member of the Communities . |
| 10 | Well for instance you can depend on a man not to get pregnant . |