Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That conflict of views has its fierce advocates on both sides , and I am neither well informed nor dispassionate enough to comment on it From the presumed perspective of John Howard , the Ellis-Beto administrations overall emerge with credit , because they did insist on the publication of official rules , and that was a big breakthrough . |
| 2 | These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place . |
| 3 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 4 | Despite its boulevards in the north , the city was never as monotonous as the centre of Paris after Baron Haussmann had really got down to work on it in the 1860s . |
| 5 | Now that Sinclair has perfected the newer type of membrane system used on the QL it would be interesting to speculate on which of the add-on companies is going to be the first to offer replacements for this ! |
| 6 | She was n't much of a drinker either — did n't even particularly like the taste of alcohol , but she 'd have to look on it as a necessary medicine . |
| 7 | Gain-up does tend to make the picture look rather grainy , though , so it is best to look on it as a last resort and reserve it for those times when a grainy picture is better than no picture at all . |
| 8 | Its bluish-black eyes seemed to focus on her for the first time . |
| 9 | Likewise , if they had foreseen it , persuading political authorities to react on anything like the required scale and at the required speed would have been very difficult . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , you were always a fool , Neil , always — a fool to think that I would be content to live on nothing with a younger son and a fool to reject me now that I can give you the life which you ought to be living . ’ |
| 11 | Mildly , he said , ‘ If you insist on facing things , why not think about how the way you 've behaved hardly leads me to think on you as a sensitive soul . |
| 12 | The years covered by this present chapter were broadly sad ones , so it is , for this author , a pleasure to be able to end on something of a light-hearted note . |
| 13 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |
| 14 | You are not helping the players , because if you try to do that they will come to rely on you in the actual performance . |